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Anderskyl
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| | | Train Cars + Night Photography Tips? < on 11/28/2015 2:55 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | This is my first solo urbex. I had 30 minutes and I noticed a some old train cars sitting on the tracks so I decided to check them out. This is also my first experience with Nighttime photography so please give me any tips you have or ideas for photographing train cars. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. (Shot with a Gopro Hero4 Silver)
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| Anderskyl
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| | | Re: Train Cars + Night Photography Tips? < Reply # 13 on 12/19/2015 6:09 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by blackhawk
Yeah, that's a different animal. Some things still apply. From what I read the cam's native ISO seems to be 100. So as you said that plus longer exposure. If you can't do a long enough exposure, dial up the ISO setting. These cams seem to shoot RAW images, if so, try using it. It will give you more control over the image exposure allowing at least a couple f/stops of exposure to play with. Draw backs are more memory is used and much more post processing is needed. Here's a night shooting link from their site: https://gopro.com/...-photo-night-lapse
| Thanks for the input and especially the link, the info on that page really helped. Sadly the GoPro does not actually shoot in RAW, it does have a similar feature but it's not RAW, Thanks for the help, I definitely will try to lower the ISO though since most of the photos are at 15 seconds at 800 ISO, I'll experiment with that next time I get out. Also thanks everyone who has responded to this thread I have learned a lot already and hope to keep learning.
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| Mosher
Location: Ex-SaugaCity, now Northern ON Gender: Male Total Likes: 2 likes
| | | Re: Train Cars + Night Photography Tips? < Reply # 14 on 1/7/2016 2:01 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | The only photography-related thing I'll add is be careful of the reflective tape strips on the cars - they'll pick up any light you shine at them and amplify it right back, ruining the aesthetics of your image (unless you can use it in a creative way). I just wanted to second the whole rail-safety thing. I was a railfan for a little while and actually worked as a passenger conductor this past summer on a remote train line (so many ghost towns too!). Trains can, surprisingly, sneak up on you in a hurry. I know an employee who lost his hand after it got sandwiched between two couplers. 95%+ engineers and conductors will tell you stories of having to watch entire families die when they try to beat a train at a road crossing, or people walking down the tracks that simply don't hear them coming in time. Even if cars look secure, they can have slack in the couplers that can suddenly bunch up, crushing anything between them. One time I was walking through the yard, came around a parked cut of cars, and crossed the tracks about 2 car lengths in front of a pair of freight locomotives that were heading my way. I didn't look hard enough before I crossed, and even 2 cars was tight enough for that crew to give me an earful. Sorry I didn't mean to derail this thread, keep up the good work but keep your head on a swivel. Railroading is a dangerous field.
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