A shot of the tourist train in New Hope, PA from a few days ago. Shot with the canon 6d and 17-40mm lens
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Photo of the day July 2017
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A shot of the tourist train in New Hope, PA from a few days ago. Shot with the canon 6d and 17-40mm lens
I went through some of my old pictures from my stay in Japan in few years back.
Enter the Light
So, I don’t know if I ever posted anything in the POTD threads before. I usually have a hard time picking just one so I just don’t post. I took some photos the other day that I thought turned out nicely.
Backstory: we normally get family portraits twice a year (Spring/Fall) and use these as photos in a book and as part of a slideshow/movie-year-in-review for each child (summer birthday gets the spring shots in the book…winter birthday gets the fall shots in their book). Our photographer (awesome person and photog) gave us a free session since we’ve used her 10 times prior and this was a “freebie”. She had just come back from a vacation and took our photos and uploaded all her vacation photos and our session…BUT an oops happened and she lost the first 2/3 of our session when she formatted a card she thought she put on the computer. Damn, it was such great lighting and the kids were actually being good. She offered to take more photos now, and even more in the fall. But we would need the photos soon for the book and movie and the weather wasn’t looking great so we decided to try and work with what we had.
On a whim, the weather was looking good for a Sunday evening so we headed back, my wife saying you have a good camera, you take some great photos, this way it’ll be quicker than trying to fit into her [photog’s] schedule and await edits. Dressed my son in his portrait clothes and I took some photos of him…and, of course, my daughter wanted her photo taken a few times. So I decied to take a few of her and this is one of those first few shots I snapped of her. I think it turned out really nice. I was mainly just shooting her so I could show her and let her run off, not really caring if I got anything great. The aperture and closeness meant a real shallow depth of field, probably should have adjusted the camera or where she was, but I didn't, so some parts are a bit soft...seems a touch softer here than just viewing on my desktop.
Maybe tomorrow I will post a photo of one of my son’s pics since it was for him.
EXIF Info:
Nikon D7000
35mm f2
1/400
ISO 400
18:33 PM EDT
link to full size: http://i.imgur.com/kxd1PR5.jpg
Backstory: we normally get family portraits twice a year (Spring/Fall) and use these as photos in a book and as part of a slideshow/movie-year-in-review for each child (summer birthday gets the spring shots in the book…winter birthday gets the fall shots in their book). Our photographer (awesome person and photog) gave us a free session since we’ve used her 10 times prior and this was a “freebie”. She had just come back from a vacation and took our photos and uploaded all her vacation photos and our session…BUT an oops happened and she lost the first 2/3 of our session when she formatted a card she thought she put on the computer. Damn, it was such great lighting and the kids were actually being good. She offered to take more photos now, and even more in the fall. But we would need the photos soon for the book and movie and the weather wasn’t looking great so we decided to try and work with what we had.
On a whim, the weather was looking good for a Sunday evening so we headed back, my wife saying you have a good camera, you take some great photos, this way it’ll be quicker than trying to fit into her [photog’s] schedule and await edits. Dressed my son in his portrait clothes and I took some photos of him…and, of course, my daughter wanted her photo taken a few times. So I decied to take a few of her and this is one of those first few shots I snapped of her. I think it turned out really nice. I was mainly just shooting her so I could show her and let her run off, not really caring if I got anything great. The aperture and closeness meant a real shallow depth of field, probably should have adjusted the camera or where she was, but I didn't, so some parts are a bit soft...seems a touch softer here than just viewing on my desktop.
Maybe tomorrow I will post a photo of one of my son’s pics since it was for him.
EXIF Info:
Nikon D7000
35mm f2
1/400
ISO 400
18:33 PM EDT
link to full size: http://i.imgur.com/kxd1PR5.jpg
Well yes that's normally my preference to.Or sleep in a bed
Cheers
Hugh
Love New Hope, but don't remember the train.
Tend to see a lot of Harleys cruising around on the weekend and lunch or dinner along the river is always nice.
John
Yeah, I don't remember a train there myself but I asked the conductor about it and he said that they have been in service for quite a few years and that besides the tourist runs the track is also used for short haul freight rail traffic that connects to some major line at Warminster. The train station is right up bridge street about 3 or 4 blocks from the bridge crossing from Lambertsville. This is a wiki link describing the history of the New Hope rail line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hope_and_Ivyland_Railroad
Carrick Shore
July 2017
I've been wanting to get a shot of Carrick Shore like this for almost 10 years now and after looking at the weather forecast yesterday, it looked promising for the photograph I've had in my mind's eye for all of those years.
When I first visited the Gatehouse of Fleet/Sandgreen area with my camera in July 2007, I loved the islands that surround the coast at Carrick. I’ve always imagined soft, pastel purples and pinks lighting up the sky behind Ardwall island at low tide, captured in a wide panoramic shot.
As fortune would have it, the weather forecast (and my gut feeling) was right because those conditions are exactly what happened last night. I’m really pleased with the outcome and it's another shot ticked off "The List". My only regret was not having enough film to shoot this as one shot on my panoramic camera. I'd used my last roll of Velvia 50 earlier in the evening and the 2 rolls of Provia 100 I had wouldn't do the colour justice.
Fuji X-T2 with XF 16-55mm f2.8 lens. The shot used a LEE Filters 0.6 Neutral Density Soft Graduated filter and was 4 shots stitched and cropped to my favourite 3:1 panoramic format.
All 4 shots were: 0.8s / f11 / ISO 100
July 2017
I've been wanting to get a shot of Carrick Shore like this for almost 10 years now and after looking at the weather forecast yesterday, it looked promising for the photograph I've had in my mind's eye for all of those years.
When I first visited the Gatehouse of Fleet/Sandgreen area with my camera in July 2007, I loved the islands that surround the coast at Carrick. I’ve always imagined soft, pastel purples and pinks lighting up the sky behind Ardwall island at low tide, captured in a wide panoramic shot.
As fortune would have it, the weather forecast (and my gut feeling) was right because those conditions are exactly what happened last night. I’m really pleased with the outcome and it's another shot ticked off "The List". My only regret was not having enough film to shoot this as one shot on my panoramic camera. I'd used my last roll of Velvia 50 earlier in the evening and the 2 rolls of Provia 100 I had wouldn't do the colour justice.
Fuji X-T2 with XF 16-55mm f2.8 lens. The shot used a LEE Filters 0.6 Neutral Density Soft Graduated filter and was 4 shots stitched and cropped to my favourite 3:1 panoramic format.
All 4 shots were: 0.8s / f11 / ISO 100
with a 210mm lens I can see where you would have to do some serious cropping. Last year I went to an air show at the McGuire air force base and practically all the photographers by the flight line were using 400mm and up lens with extenders. I definitely felt outclassed with my 300mm zoom.
Yeah,but the 210 is good when following fast planes withouth using a tripod. The cropping I did on this picture was merely to reduce file size by about 25 percent for faster upload.
Used to live in Creve Coeur, west of St Louis, and was in southern Missouri both on th Current River and later at Fort Lost In The Woods.
Probably toasty down there now!
John
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