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Train go this way

Jun, 2015

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Behind The Lens

Location

Campbell Town, Tasmania

Time

I took this photo around midday during winter, therefore the light isn't as harsh as a summer day. The scattered cloud cover also helped to reduce some glare.

Lighting

Being around midday during a southern hemisphere winter doesn't provide for controlled lighting as such. The scattered clouds certainly helped reduce bouncing glare somewhat. It was challenging while waiting for clouds to move across the Suns path when it did I clicked away with a hand held camera.

Equipment

I used an Olympus 3/4's mirror-less dslr. Love the compact lightweight and I can pack a host of gear in my backpack and not struggle with the weight. For this railway photo I would have used an Oly em5 and the kits lens (14-42mm) and hand held. My Oly gear has since more than doubled including an em1 and a host of lenses and tripods. :D

Inspiration

This day was a meet up with fellow togers of a Facebook group. As we are scattered around the state and interact only online with our photos a discussion arose to have a meet up day 'put faces to names'. This park apart from being the an ideal central location for all of us to travel to, It also ticked a few boxes with points of interest from the usual park associated infrastructure to chainsaw carved trees, river, bridges and a freight only railway line at the rear of the park. Naturally we all went walk-a-about scrambling over the terrain and when on this railway track the symmetry and disappearing lines took my eye. The bridge wall accented the direction of the tracks adding a pointing arrow feature further enhancing the disappearance of the tracks.

Editing

I use both Photoshop and Lightroom in general. With this image I processed it in Lightroom with the usual tweaking one does and adding a little more distortion to the foreground while keeping the leading lines symmetric with the intention of those lines disappearing to infinity.

In my camera bag

Nowadays I usually take both my Olympus em5 and em1 and depending on where I'm going or think I'll be photoing I'll put lenses on to suit. With the compactness of 3/4 equipment means it's not a drama to pack extra gear!

Feedback

Like many other advises I've read certainly practice, practice, practice. Take the time to 'stop and look' instead of 'point and shoot' Given the digital age, it's not an expensive exercise to take photos nor does one have to wait for prints to come back. Previewing photos is a god-send! I would suggest to get out of the habit of holding the camera in front of you at shoulder height or at your eye while standing. Bob-down, place your camera on the ground or raise it above your head. Cameras have monitors or tilt-able monitors for this very reason.

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