David, your posting conjures up to me, of a tripod being pitched up in darkness and torrential rain outside Frankie and Bennies, pointed across the road into Cwmbran bus station as a B10M is taking on passengers for an X24 working. Can you imagine the reflections off the vehicle in the rain and darkness.
6400asa images are a little too grainy to print but have plenty of impact under variable lighting conditions within the image. Here's one of mine without the rain... http://www.martinbray-ukloco.com/ On 13 Nov, 22:07, David Beilby <[email protected]> wrote: > It's odd that you should post that photo just after I'd been out to > photograph a First Manchester bus myself in similar lighting > conditions. That I can push up to 6400ASA and get good results is a > testimony to modern camera development and at that speed the bus > doesn't even have to be stationary! > > Your picture shows one of the issues that no camera technology can > deal with (at the moment at least), which is the narrow colour > spectrum from sodium lighting. Whilst high pressure sodium lighting > isn't as bad as the older sodium lights, there's still a yellow cast > which colour correction won't get rid of. Of course, it is actually > an accurate record of the scene and thus perfectly correct. You can > use a flash but apart from, at he very least, annoying the driver, the > photograph wouldn't look natural and would be flat. > > Nonetheless I'm an enthusiastic exponent of night photography and am > glad to find someone else trying - do try more! When it works well > the effect can be so dramatic. Heavy rain makes for great photos but > a pretty miserable experience taking them. And don't forget those > Christmas lights! > > Regards, > > David Beilby > > On 13 Nov 2012, at 21:25, Barrie Gilbert wrote: > > > > > One of the few good things about the clocks going back an hour at > > this time of year is the potential to take photographs in different > > light conditions, provided that you have a tripod or a steady hand. > > > This teatime shot is of First Cymru Pointer-bodied Dart 42610, which > > is one of a handful that have been repainted in the new corporate > > livery and refurbished with leather seat covers. It is also one of > > the three that carry the new bilingual fleetnames and branding for > > Service 36. > > > The location is Clase Road, Morriston in November 2012. > > > © Barrie Gilbert > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > . > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > . > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs?hl=en > > . > > <FirstCymru42610.2.2.jpg> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs?hl=en.
