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Posts: 3552 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 April 2015 at 20:22
UP 5802


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What a lovely shot.    
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Posts: 4605 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 April 2015 at 03:08
AudioDoc and MagicMan have made it a craft of taking train pics!!
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Posts: 3552 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 April 2015 at 16:46
Thank you guys!

UP 8364 in Salt Lake City


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Posts: 3552 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 April 2015 at 19:17
UP 8592 at the popular Salt Lake restaurant "Red Iguana 2".


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Posts: 3552 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 April 2015 at 19:57
UP 8338


Sony A7 Minolta 70-210mm f4 @ 135mm, 1/640 f8 ISO 640 B&W CPL
 



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Posts: 3552 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 April 2015 at 22:39
UP 8592 westbound around the southern end of the Great Salt Lake, near Smelter and Saltair. This train must have been a mile long. You can see the container train snaking back around a long curve. Nevertheless I estimated this train to be traveling about 60 mph!


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@AudioDoc: Phantastic series. UP 8364 is my absolute favorite (with the State House on the left, great!).
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Posts: 66 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 April 2015 at 00:33
Needing some help understanding something AudioDoc....if you would?

Noticed you are shooting ISO's above 500 for the close-ups or fast movers. And I think I saw one on this page here that was a bit further off shot at ISO 250.

Are you bumping the ISO to get a faster shutter speed? Or is it for another reason?


Your shots are great, and the scenery is pretty special....keep them coming!





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Posts: 3552 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 April 2015 at 02:48
waldo_posth and Scott thank you very much for your complements! Much appreciated!

As for the ISO settings. There is not always a method to my madness! Sometimes these trains are on me before I can really think about my settings. But generally I'm setting my shutter speed and aperture in manual mode. I don't like my shutter speed lower than 1/500 and I want as much depth of field as possible so I rarely go below f8. I try to keep an eye(if the trains allow me time) on the ISO and keep it as low as I can. Sometimes I will lower the aperture, especially with my 70-200 or 70-210 if the subject is distant. So this is basically landscape photography with a moving subject. I have my auto ISO limits set to 100-3200 for the A7 and 100-1600 for the A99, but sometimes I change that. If noise become a problem I can clean it up a bit in post, but generally I'm not so worried about it with these cameras. I usually use my SAL70200G with the A99 for shooting trains around SLC, but I thought I would give the old Minoltas a spin with the A7. The "beercan" actually surprised me. The results are better than I expected. Yes there is a little CA and OOF can be harsh.
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If you want to keep the shutter speed fast with a CPL, you're going to have to bump the ISO a little. I find myself shooting at ISO 400 in sunlight with my CPL sometimes, but never seem to need to go higher than that. Perhaps Kelly's CPL is more agressive than mine?


FGLK GS-2 @ Cayuga, NY by Mathieu Tremblay, on Flickr

Sony SLT-A77V, Sony 16-50 SSM, 20 mm, f/9.0, ISO 250, 1/500

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Posts: 1000 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 April 2015 at 21:28
Some shots from earlier on this week.

this one is from a foggy morning in which they had the one of the repair shed doors open and the fog was slightly working its way in.


4 Repair by Bieomax, on Flickr
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This one is from when i went for a training session on another depot which services the Class 185's for TPE. i just noticed all the lamp posts and the leading lines of the sidings

lamps upon lamps by Bieomax, on Flickr
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Posts: 3552 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 April 2015 at 20:19
Originally posted by magicman841 magicman841 wrote:

If you want to keep the shutter speed fast with a CPL, you're going to have to bump the ISO a little. I find myself shooting at ISO 400 in sunlight with my CPL sometimes, but never seem to need to go higher than that. Perhaps Kelly's CPL is more agressive than mine?


That's entirely possible. I guess there are a lot of possible reasons, including metering modes, the brightness of the scene, the lens used etc. If you notice, I have fairly heavy clown cover in some of those photos. I suppose getting the results that you like are what counts.
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Posts: 3552 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 April 2015 at 20:44
Mark,

Nice work! I like photos of railroad shops, yards and Locomotive sheds. Is that an intentional vignette on the second photo?

Regards,

Kelly
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