Best Photos of 2010: Trains “Part One” Blog

[Walter S]

Since we are nearing the end of the year I have decided to make some blogs displaying my favorite images from this year. The below link takes you to part one of my favorite train photos of the year that I have taken.

http://scriptunasimages.wordpress.co...f-2010-trains/

[crazytiger]

Great shots, Walter.

[troy12n]

So these are all yours?

[Walter S]

Originally Posted by crazytiger

Great shots, Walter.

Thank you!

Originally Posted by troy12n

So these are all yours?

Yes they are.

[troy12n]

Ok, very nice

[milwman]

Vary good photo blog.

[JRMDC]

Walt, the plume shot, it's iconic, or definitive or something, it is a shot I recall when I think about what ultra-wide can do.

I am also a bit bitter, I had a distant variant of that shot, but weak light and dark thin smoke only, couldn't make it work. And of course, nothing at all like your powerful composition anyway. So only a "bit" bitter.

PhotoID: 312557 Photograph © Walter Scriptunas II - www.scriptunasimages.com

[troy12n]

Originally Posted by JRMDC

Walt, the plume shot, it's iconic, or definitive or something, it is a shot I recall when I think about what ultra-wide can do.

but it's backlit...

[Walter S]

Originally Posted by JRMDC

Walt, the plume shot, it's iconic, or definitive or something, it is a shot I recall when I think about what ultra-wide can do.

I am also a bit bitter, I had a distant variant of that shot, but weak light and dark thin smoke only, couldn't make it work. And of course, nothing at all like your powerful composition anyway. So only a "bit" bitter.

Thank you! The ultra-wide defintely adds to the shot, makes the 734 look a bit longer in length also I believe.

Originally Posted by troy12n

but it's backlit...

Very true, Troy

[troy12n]

Did you use a 10-22 on that? I have tried shots like that and gotten awful lens flare (on a 17-40/5D). What techniques did you do to avoid that?

[Walter S]

Originally Posted by troy12n

Did you use a 10-22 on that? I have tried shots like that and gotten awful lens flare (on a 17-40/5D). What techniques did you do to avoid that?

Yes, that is with the 10-22. It does produce a fair amount of flare at times but overall it handles it quite well. Im not really sure I have a "technique" to reduce flare, I just try to move my camera around and that sometimes works. The lens hood works pretty well also.

[Walter S]

I have posted part two of my favorite train photos of the year, here.

http://scriptunasimages.wordpress.co...ns-“part-two”/