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to the regular photographers on here
Topic Started: Apr 25 2012, 01:38 AM (349 Views)
Jonesy
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I just want to tell you guys keep up the great work with the pictures I have been seeing so much improvements over the past couple of months, one little tip I was once told by an expert photographer....whenever its a sunny day try everything in your free will to keep the sun behind you make its on your subject and not in your face, not only will it benefit from damaging your eyes but it also benefit you from damaging your camera lense (this has happened), just a quick heads up.
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FollowThatBus!
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Direct sunlight into any Digital Camera Lens is not good for long periods of time (I will say 2 seconds or more). It burns out the pixels in the camera's sensor thus reducing the life of your camera. If you must take a pic in the direction of the sun, point the lens down until you are ready to compose your image, compose your image and then take the picture. When done, point the lens back down until your ready to compose another image in this type of setting. Just remember you may get lots of silhouettes which to some may not look bad and artistically may be appealing to you. I personally don't do this too often because I don't want to damage my camera's sensor but will do if I really want a particular subject, etc.
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Jonesy
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anyone here every try "panning" with a moving object? that seems to work especially if your dealing with a fast moving bus or something like that usually the backround might look blurry but the object you want usually comes out pretty clear.
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Bill Huston
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Mitch Goldman from eastern Pennsylvania is known as the king of the railroad photo panners. Here are some examples of his excellent work:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=342864&nseq=364
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=362383&nseq=266
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=376753&nseq=134
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=377648&nseq=118
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=331985&nseq=436

I suggest checking out the rest of his work, just click on "more" after his name in the examples. He has over a 1000 photos in railpictures and it is not easy to get a photo past the screeners.

If you want to see the camera settings Mitch used go to the bottom of the page and click on "This image contains EXIF headers - Click Here to show the data."

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FollowThatBus!
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These are some AMAZING images. I loved the panned image where the background is blurred but you can tell that the train is in motion. I just wished there was more info on what settings those photographers did on those images. That is something I'm very interested in. It's been a while since I've done any shots like this. Maybe, I'll start again but it's all trail and error, lol. :)
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Everybody is gone. :(

Where is everybody?
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