Fraser Euan White
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My effort was very disappointing. The bridge I chose to watch from was very crowded and I was late - hence I was off to once side and there were a lot of trees. I'd cycled there so only had the x100s and then the train was late and it was getting dark so I had to ratchet up the ISO to 1600. The x100s wouldn't focus and thus the picture was dark and blurred. So I went for the vintage look in Lightroom.
Thanks for the thoughts John. I'm not entirely sure I'm brave enough for fully manual (yet), but one of the reasons I'm taking practice photos of all this LNER and GWR stuff is as a practice for next time a proper red loco is in the area
I should say, though, the grad filter is something I added in Raw Therapee, not an actual proper on-camera filter, and it may well be that I've just dropped the Y-pos down too far. There was very little in the sky in terms of nice contrasty clouds - usually when I go out taking photos of steamers, it's almost impossible to distinguish between the sky and the loco output. I was hoping that the onlookers would be seen more as motion blur, which is why I'd dropped it down to 1/100 in the first place.
I'm probably out again on Saturday morning if I get up in time, I might try my old manual f2.8 wide angle lens to see if that helps - not least because the Sigma I used above is quite a dark lens once you start zooming in. But I also might have more of a play in RT with these, though it might be better to start another thread for such things.
So good I better get there very early..1 hour 30 min maybe.
My effort was very disappointing. The bridge I chose to watch from was very crowded and I was late - hence I was off to once side and there were a lot of trees. I'd cycled there so only had the x100s and then the train was late and it was getting dark so I had to ratchet up the ISO to 1600. The x100s wouldn't focus and thus the picture was dark and blurred. So I went for the vintage look in Lightroom.