01-04-2011, 12:49 AM
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What are we looking at here?
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? Flashback to my college days 
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01-04-2011, 01:05 AM
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A BART train? Seriously, what are you asking?
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everytime i see non-train photos of yours i think, "so much talent. wasted on trains."
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01-04-2011, 01:07 AM
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Is that even possible? How did he not loose site of the train in the dark? This isn't one of those photoshop pans is it?
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01-04-2011, 01:12 AM
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We're looking at a stunning image...
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01-04-2011, 01:20 AM
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Several of his pans have left me mystified on how he pulled it off.. I loved it.
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01-04-2011, 01:31 AM
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Is that even possible? How did he not loose site of the train in the dark? This isn't one of those photoshop pans is it?
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Not hard really. Just like any pan, but this one is at night in a well lit city.
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01-04-2011, 01:32 AM
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We're looking at a stunning image...
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I second that!
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01-04-2011, 01:53 AM
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A very nicely done photo.
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01-04-2011, 01:55 AM
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That was one of those... "why do I even bother, I'll never be that good" pictures.
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01-04-2011, 01:59 AM
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I would like to see what this area looks like in the day just to try and get perspective. I have no idea how one would accomplish that.
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01-04-2011, 02:05 AM
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I belive that it's mostly street lights, traffic lights, and house lights. The more colorful lights are likely store fronts, but I have to be honest, I am guessing.
I would bet you could use the Sat function on Google Maps right now to get a look.
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01-04-2011, 02:22 AM
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I could be mistaken, but I think a fluid pan head on a tripod was used here. I know Mike recently bought one, and this is the sort of result that equipment like that would produce.
Superb photo.
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01-04-2011, 02:30 AM
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I think he shoulda Photoshop'd an NS Dash 9 in the shot somehwere. And maybe some fake snow...
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01-04-2011, 02:47 AM
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The more I look at it, I think of the movie Blade Runner
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01-04-2011, 05:45 AM
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Awesome photo! That's the work by a very talented individual.
Chase
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01-04-2011, 06:21 AM
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I think I see someone flipping him off in the lead car.
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01-04-2011, 05:16 PM
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Great shot.
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Railroad photography is what you make of it, but one way is not "better" than another, IMHO. Unless you have a pole right thought the nose of the engine! -SG
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01-04-2011, 06:44 PM
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It's a nice shot, no doubt, but it doesn't belong on RP, IMO... too little train, too much not train.
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01-04-2011, 06:59 PM
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Out of the camera and onto RP - it belongs. Superb execution.
/Mitch
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01-04-2011, 08:30 PM
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It's a nice shot, no doubt, but it doesn't belong on RP, IMO... too little train, too much not train.
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There's still people who think the Beatles were over rated too.
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01-04-2011, 08:46 PM
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Did anybody else hear that?
I could have sworn I heard Mike Johannessen call Mitch Goldman a punk.
Outstanding.
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01-04-2011, 09:11 PM
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Last edited by Mgoldman; 01-04-2011 at 09:15 PM.
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01-04-2011, 09:36 PM
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It's a nice shot, no doubt, but it doesn't belong on RP, IMO... too little train, too much not train.
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Many other shots with less train. Alot of shots without a train too.
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I personally have had a problem with those trying to tell us to turn railroad photography into an "art form." It's fine for them to do so, I welcome it in fact, but what I do have a problem with is that the practitioners of the more "arty" shots, I have found, tend to look down their nose's at others who are shooting more "mundane" shots.
Railroad photography is what you make of it, but one way is not "better" than another, IMHO. Unless you have a pole right thought the nose of the engine! -SG
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01-05-2011, 02:07 AM
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There's still people who think the Beatles were over rated too.
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I don't think they're over-rated...I think they SUCK.
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01-05-2011, 02:23 AM
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Quote:
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I don't think they're over-rated...I think they SUCK.
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ROTHLMAO 
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