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Dave wrote: you go training, you use nothing but a 135mm and take nothing but details... How about Sunday 28 Sept? (My birthday by the way...) Its mine too. What say all those who were born on Sept 28 take out a 135 and shoot a train/RR shot on said day and post there results.Yes no??? Am I allowed to join in? Mine's the 27th. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Re: RE railroads - was Re: Pentax Users Gallery - theme:
Dave wrote: you go training, you use nothing but a 135mm and take nothing but details... How about Sunday 28 Sept? (My birthday by the way...) Its mine too. What say all those who were born on Sept 28 take out a 135 and shoot a train/RR shot on said day and post there results.Yes no??? Am I allowed to join in? Mine's the 27th. You can use a 105,Dave.lol Dave Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
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Its mine too. What say all those who were born on Sept 28 take out a 135 and shoot a train/RR shot on said day and post there results.Yes no??? Dave Weird. My birthday is the 29th. Unfortunately there are few trains around here. Marnie aka Doe :-) Which is besides the point because I don't have a 135, although I do have a zoom in that range.
Re: RE railroads - was Re: Pentax Users Gallery - theme: professional
Stan Halpin: Hi Anders! I think I would half agree with Paul about your train photos. He says too touristic. For me that would mean that you are using cliche composition. I think the issue is rather that you are being a recorder of events rather than an artist. I haven't thought so much about my goal with these pictures, but when you say it, it may be that my aim is to record and document rather than being overly artistic. Or touristic, for that matter. In the case of the pictures from the abandoned railroad cars and tracks in the industrial park, the aim definitely was to document how the site once looked like; it is now torn down. For the excursion pictures, the aim is not that clear cut, but since these excursions are more or less one-off events, one of the most important reasons for taking pictures at all is to save what I experience during the ride. And it's quite hard to both photographing artistically and participarting in the excursion at the same time. I have thought of going to some railway on any ordinary day and then I'd have more room to concentrate on the images. Touristic to me means the classic this is me in front of X, this is me in front of Y pictures, and those I want to avoid :-) I would suggest as an exercise that the next time you go training, you use nothing but a 135mm and take nothing but details... How about Sunday 28 Sept? (My birthday by the way...) Now, that would really be a challenge! I happen to have a 135 prime, but I very seldom use that, or the 135 position on my 28-200 zoom for that matter. I tend to use 28-50-200 most of the time. Maybe I should do some dedicated 135 mm exercises, just to get a feel for it. anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/
Re: RE railroads - was Re: Pentax Users Gallery - theme: professional
Stan scribed: I would suggest as an exercise that the next time you go training, you use nothing but a 135mm and take nothing but details... How about Sunday 28 Sept? (My birthday by the way...) on 9/12/03 10:53 AM, Paul Delcour at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its mine too. What say all those who were born on Sept 28 take out a 135 and shoot a train/RR shot on said day and post there results.Yes no??? Dave
