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A rare (for me) natural-light shot, which has brought out the texture of the wings quite well.
Mortimer Forest (Herefords).
One of the best Moments on Madeira Island last Year: a Halo produced by the Sun - and magical Light.
Shot with the Sony NEX-7 and the Sony E 10-18mm F4 OSS.
I swear the sole purpose of steam excursions is to distract everyone from the real trains that will be gone long before restored steam.
I knew this Z was following UP 844 out the KP this day but like a moth to light, shot all the same photos as everyone else of 844. Sure I popped this Z on the way home in marginal light but I would gladly trade all of those to have chased this all day.
ZSCKC 27 met AAMWS 27
Buick, CO
4.28.06
SOOC . They seem be popping up everywhere around this city . This one is associated with the new underground cross river and rail network . A late afternoon light shot .
CBD
Brisbane
Painting with light shot taken in the ruins of the old Lachlan Castle looking across Loch Fyne towards the Milky Way.
Ted, Tedd and Teddy out camping in the woods for a bonfire night celebration with mulled cider and toasted marshmallows.
I think this photo may have taken the record for 'most shots needed to get a good take' with well over 100 photos taken, in total, trying to balance the annoyingly complex lighting. Final shot is a composite of three images - two differently exposed front-lit 'warm light' shots and one cool backlit shot for the moonlight. The bonfire, steam and moon are also composited in but everything else is captured in camera. Post processed in Lightroom and composited and blended in Affinity Photo all on an iPad. Final adjustments in Snapseed.
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2023 has proven to be another very lean year, in photographic terms, due to the relentless bad weather, family life and shift work. As we rapidly approach the end of the year I thought it was time to once again reflect on some of my favourite shots of 2023 and having taken so little this year there wasn't a lot to choose from.
Yer tiz! My favourite shot of 2023 and unintentionally another 'death of the light' shot just like last years image of the Class 313 at Ford. Having been sat at home, some 15 miles west of this location and watching progress on the various apps I kind of resigned myself to the fact it probably wasn't worth heading out for this working due to the rubbish weather, or at the very least head to Branksome for a record shot (again). Then, an updated look at Sat24 revealed a hole in the cloud heading towards Christchurch, surely it was worth a go? And so I made my way here, arriving as the down train to Weymouth passed, knowing this move would be next and was only a couple of signal sections away. And thankfully the hunch paid off, not only for myself, but also for Nic Joynson who had also calculated there may be a chance. Passing in the briefest of light on 20 November 2023, under a most impressive sky is GBRf Class 56 No.56081 approaching Christchurch hauling four barrier vehicles, and 47727 trailing to the rear, running as 5O58 05:20 Leicester LIP - Bournemouth T&RSMD in the most fortunate of breaks in the cloud. The train will be used to convey South Western Railway Class 458 No.458524 to Alstom's Widnes facility for upgrade and refurbishment works.
NOTE. Taken with the aid of the camera on a pole.
Walking home this evening, just after sunset, in what we call "the gloaming" in Scotland, that magically coloured extended twilight (especially beautiful in autumn and spring). Didn't expect to be so late walking home so didn't have the tripod, had to improvise some low-light shots as twilight went to night, resting camera on railings and posts to steady it.
I never got to finish processing my Tribute in Light shots before heading off to London. I did not correct the fisheye distortion in this shot.
Ed Dickens and my fellow crew of photographers set out to capture a special moment in Union Pacific history, a lasting portrait of the last of the giants at the Steam Shop together; and a special thank you to Ed and the Steam Crew for their enduring spirit and participation making this shoot possible with me. And thank you to my friends Derek Brown and Bruce Brackley , Sachit Egan, Jennifer Howell for you guys made this wonderful. It was important to Ed Dickens to preserve this occasion, I got lots of back up photographers in case my camera failed so it was forever captured. I just press the button, Ed set up the magic. I’m just so honored he entrusted me to do it for him.
In this frame I really badly wanted a blue hour sky and artificial light shot! I called on my friend Tim Tonge to make it possible to do a night shot or 2.
I don’t have any of this kind of specialty lighting equipment and really enjoy these night artificial light shots but due to the secret nature of this shoot I was unable to share with Tim; so I asked Ed and after some special permissions I was given the go ahead to ask Tim to help me with a set up of lights to make this last occasion a reality! Thanks Tim! And your helper Sean Hoyden.
For the group Sharing Exposures
Theme for December 2006 - Light
Shot in two shots. First one of moon with a meade telescope and D200. Second shot of rooster in dusk light.
The courtyard of Somerset House at night. I don't normally take my tripod with me to London so the annual Photo24 event gives me a great opportunity to get some low light shots.
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Another Asian bird in Hawaii. This is a low-light shot with a point and shoot, so it's not the best quality.
Hedychrum sp. (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) cuckoo wasp on the flower of the annual fleabane (Erigeron annuus). Body length: about 10 mm.
Mixed light shot taken handheld.
This is a shot from my butterfly archives. I took it during a visit to Victoria's Butterfly Garden. As the butterfly is in the shadows, this is a low light shot. Below I have linked the same photo with my usual processing. Which one do you prefer? The photo was taken in 2017, with my trusty Olympus digital camera. Enjoy and stay well!
We had one sunrise shoot in Kolmanskop. Our guides have been coming here for personal shoots and leading tours for 10-11 years. They know the best places at sunrise and sunset. In this shot, the light looks like this for 4-8 minutes. There were 2 other locations which have very rare directional light. Our guide suggested we split into two groups so we could get at least two of the three shots. None of us liked that idea. One of the participants suggested positioning a tripod at each location to shorten the amount of time necessary to get the shot with rare light. The idea was to dial-in our settings, place our camera on the tripod, take no more than three shots; in/out. Our guides were very intrigued with the idea. We arrived before sunrise and were allowed to enter the town. We split into three groups, pre-positioned three tripods and all 10 of us managed to capture the rare-light shot. Very impressed with ourselves as were our guides.
The wind and sand blew all day and night,, creating beautiful ripples in buildings which never had them in the 10-11 years the guides have been visiting this town. Ripples were gone by the sunset shots as tourists walked all over them. Even some photographers (not in our group) trampled the ripples. In any case, some turned out nice.
On a visit to Tokyo in June I decided to head up to Kyoto for a Friday night sunset and Saturday morning sunrise shoot before flying back from Tokyo on Saturday afternoon. I had two locations in mind: the famous Fushimi Inari shrine with its path of torii gates, and the nearly-as-famous bamboo grove at Arashiyama. I decided to try Fushimi Inari for sunset and that turned out to be a good choice, not because there was any epic sunset but because the late afternoon light shining in through the gates made for a beautiful rich red glow from the brightly painted gates. I particularly liked the glow from the little hanging lantern here in addition to the ambient light. And as every photographer knows, it's all about the light. Shot hand held at 1600 ISO.
I found that a Friday night in June was a good time to visit the temple, while there were certainly lots of other people there they were almost all on the way out by the time the sun started to go down. As I climbed up the 4km path through the thousands of torii gates, I enjoyed the serene quiet of the wilderness around the shrine. I debated just shooting the bottom but I decided I had to do the full experience and climb to the top of the mountain. Very glad I did, I have to say it was a very spiritual and memorable experience.
Another shot of the Ferris Wheel at Clontarf in Redcliffe, South East Queensland on the first night of frustrations with my remote! Plenty of action to come as I think it's staying until August.
One of my Supermoon April `21 Shots. A little bit hazy, but interesting Light.
Shot with Sony A77 and Sigma 120-400mm at F=5.6.
Week 6:52 Lights at Night (Feb 5th - Feb 12)
I almost forgot that this was the last day for the weekly challenge. Where did the week go?
I had a pretty long day with lots of meetings. For some reason I felt exhausted around 2pm. So, after work I was feeling super tired and crabby, but I packed up the car with all sorts of camera gear and headed out to wait for the sun to go down.
The sunset was gorgeous today and the clouds were amazing. I was not fast enough to get really good sunset shots though since we were not planning on taking shots that that time. We had gotten dinner and eating the car before we drove around looking for cool lights.
My plan was to definitely get some blurry light shots and to get some on the tripod too, but I was feeling cold and lazy, so I only got blurry shots and some pretty good hand held shots (surprisingly).
I was glad I got out for a little while to get some photos. I also someone else taking nighttime shots, and one of the locations I was at, so that was cool too.
My last trip down to the Chilli Sub I tried hard to do something different with the signals. I am sure it's only a matter of time before these classic Santa Fe signals come down for PTC upgrades. Here at West Chilli, I hadn't done much. Morning light was over to the southside, which there is no room to stand, so I got the cross light shot of this Q-train. The train is in heavy dynamics as they hold back the tonnage off Edelstein Hill.
(...and another one. If you're starting to get tired of 'against the light shots' in this stream, feel free to come back next month - hopefully I will have gotten over this phase by then... :)
Find all the shots from this series here.
The grizzly sow called "Raspberry" walks close to my car. For the photo techies, this was a super low light shot, taken at ISO 51,200. Edited with Topaz DeNoise AI. October, 2020.
Roadside low-light shot, at dusk, this is an elusive bird around here ;-)
Perdrix rouge - Alectoris rufa - Red-legged Partridge
Baie des Veys, Cotentin, Normandy, France
I'm playing already this AM. 4* and out blowing bubbles!!! I blew up one of my northern light shots and used as a background for some added color. Trying to get the hang of this art.
Colas Rail Class 56078 waits time at spalding after running round it’s train ready to head north with 6S98. Excuse the poor quality as this was my first ever attempt at a ‘low light’ shot and without a tripod. A rare appearance for a colas class 56 at Spalding in the hands of 56078 to work 6S98 2110 SPALDING UP SIDINGS to Aberdeen Waterloo. This working is normally booked to be one off Colas’ class 70 locomotives but it appears the 56 was the only loco available. This working was only on for a few months unfortunately but would off been amazing to see this working continue on into the future. - 5/8/2020.
Unfortunately for me, after my first encounter with M348 closer to Jasper, M348 would rot in Swan Landing for a number of hours. Not departing until after sunset.
Day light shot is here:
The Providence and Worcester Railroad is still providing their passenger train and crew for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council's extremely popular Polar Express trains which run from Woonsocket to the North Pole (aka the Buma Funeral Home in Uxbridge!) and return. They have 32 sold out trips running this season after a covid hiatus in 2020, but all but two run at 4 PM and 7 PM meaning there is little opportunity for daylight photography. However they did schedule two 1 PM departures so I decided to get out for the first of them on Black Friday.
Alas the day turned out to be overcast with light rain and gloomy skies. Adding to the disappointment was the railroad's choice to use orange Genesee and Wyoming corporate painted units instead of the classic old school P&W red and brown units that match the train. Consequently none of these images come close to some of the great ones I captured in 2018 and 2019, but it was still enjoyable to get out along the rails of my hometown railroad only a town over from where I grew up.
After chasing the 1 PM up and back I hung around for one more last light (more like no light!) shot of the next run departing at 4 PM.
Moments out of Woonsocket station PW 3902 (GE B39-8E blt. Oct. 1987 as LMX 8502) is leading the train north as it curls under the Slatersville Branch overpass and through Woonsocket Yard approaching the River Street crossing at MP 16.7.
The track in the foreground climbing the ramp is the switch back connection to the 4 mile long line Slatersvile Branch that once served Winter Street yard to the east and stretches west to it's namesake town, where incidentally I grew up. Alas the branch no longer has any customers and has been silent since 2010, although when I was younger it had three active and busy customers and was served three nights a week.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Friday November 26, 2021
Improvised shot on the walk home from my first cinema outing of the New Year (start as you mean to go on!). The sun had just set in the western sky, looking east here the sky was ever darkening blue, with a large Moon starting to rise.
I sat the camera on one of the posts where moored barges hook up for power and water to steady it for a low light shot, pointing back to the old, stone bridge over the Union Canal at the bottom of Viewforth.The dusk was moving to night at this point, and it was much darker than it looks here to the camera on a long exposure, of course, and frigidly cold.
66421 passes Brinklow loop, Easenhall with 4M51 06:38 Tees Dock-Crick "Toss-co express" on the 4th of December 2019.
Back on track with the WL sequence... one good thing about the Turbos is that they looked the same coming and going so you could always line up a well lighted shot. Here on the evening of 12 June 1993, Amtrak Empire Service train 265 rolls north at Manitou on the Hudson River, as viewed from the Bear Mountain Bridge.
I unfortunately don't know what this flower is called. This photo was taken while on the tour at San Francisco's Conservatory of Flowers. Handheld with natural light. Shot with a Nikon D200 and Nikon 105mm micro/macro, manually-focused. See "More Properties" for more information.
morning Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley U.S. national park in the Mojave Desert California. I love how the sun and sand create very soft and sensual curves of dark and light.
Shot in 5 stop HDR
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This is the last of the aerial Tribute in Light shots I will upload. I have a few more non Tribute aerial shots and some Tribute shots from Exchange Place in Jersey City.
This one was easy. All you have to do is go to Monsaraz and shoot wherever you look. Here I noticed that in a certain position I'd caught the sun reflecting on the lamp glass. Lucky eye.
With a big cut of Autoracks on the head-end for Mira Loma a Third Section Intermodal from Santa Teresa, NM to Long Beach, CA grinds up the east side of Beaumont Hill into the late evening. With something other than the plain ole' Amour Yellow and Harbormist Gray on the point makes the low light shot just a bit better than it would have been.
IC 6251 leads taconite ore pellets from Utac south along the Missabe Sub.
My plans to catch this train in some great afternoon sunlight would be squashed by some serious cloud cover and a trio of northbounds that would have them hold the siding at Alborn. Luckily, the fall color here added some character to a fading light shot.
Eventually, they would continue their southbound journey to Proctor Yard and then prove to be elusive for me over the following days.
Something about the white safety stripe on the IC 6251 makes this more appealing that the yellow stripers.