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*** January 2025 Image and Video Thread ***

Pete_W

Pete_W

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Happy New Year!! I hope it's a great year for everyone.

Here is my first photo for the new year. Yes, a train.

It was a baking hot day here, 32 degrees Celsius. Plenty of heat haze in this shot.

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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
  • ƒ/11
  • 283mm
  • 1/320s
  • ISO 500
 
Great photos Xavier!
 
xaviergut said:
Thank you Pete! I really like the Sigma 65mm
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You are using it very well! It sure produces nice crisp images. It's another lens I am tempted to get, but I already have enough! :oops:
 
So we did this on New Years Day :) Brilliant fun. I've been visiting here since not long after it opened in 1985, still enjoy it just as much. Despite my advancing years, I can still give the younger whippersnappers a bit of a schooling when things get serious lol lol
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  • Panasonic DC-S5
  • ƒ/11
  • 36mm
  • 1/200s
  • ISO 100
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  • Panasonic DC-S5
  • ƒ/5.6
  • 62mm
  • 1/320s
  • ISO 100
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  • Panasonic DC-S5
  • ƒ/11
  • 28mm
  • 1/125s
  • ISO 100


It's such a pretty and picturesque spot it makes it hard to concentrate at times :)
 
Neighborhood kids enjoying the new playground in Portland's Gabriel Park.
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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 50/F1.8
  • ƒ/5
  • 50mm
  • 1/250s
  • ISO 100
 
Cormorants on the west bank of the Willamette River, at the southern edge of downtown Portland, just south of the Marquam Bridge (I-5).
pjd-cormorants-on-west-bank-willamette-river-portland-or-241230-p1001882_h.jpg
  • Panasonic DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 50/F1.8
  • ƒ/8
  • 50mm
  • 1/160s
  • ISO 100
 
Oíche said:
Want See Pics
But your 24-105 photos are hard to beat unless you want blur background?
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Yes, although I am usually at f8 or higher for train photos with both the 70-300 and 24-105. I used the 24-105 lens the most on my New Year's Day outing. Such a versatile focal range for trains.

Here's one with the 24-105:

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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • ƒ/9
  • 105mm
  • 1/200s
  • ISO 100
 
Here is another from the 24-105mm lens.

This is a 3-car diesel set in the regional city of Goulburn, on a morning run headed for Sydney.

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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • ƒ/8
  • 105mm
  • 1/800s
  • ISO 400
 
For Pete_W: Fingers crossed (if I can find a place to park), later today I hope to get photos of the "Holiday Express" steam locomotive as it departs Portland's Oregon Rail Heritage Center. It's been raining a LOT this morning, but the weather is supposed to clear up before 4PM PT departure time. I'm not riding the train today, just taking photos from the street. Stay tuned ...
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Pete_W said:
Yes, although I am usually at f8 or higher for train photos with both the 70-300 and 24-105. I used the 24-105 lens the most on my New Year's Day outing. Such a versatile focal range for trains.

Here's one with the 24-105:

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I don't know why you didn't like the polariser, it would have worked wonders on this one, brought out the sky and took the relections from the windows... And B&W conversions look striking. Sorry for my polarising opinions :D

We got a new bus/railway station. £350M apparently and I haven't been in it. Don't expect bullet trains though, it is still 2 hours to Dublin only 100 miles away and the buses from here are quicker. Not my photo BTW
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Irish bullet trains... Definitely a bad naming for those in Belfast Z04 Motzer
 
PJD said:
For Pete_W: Fingers crossed (if I can find a place to park), later today I hope to get photos of the "Holiday Express" steam locomotive as it departs Portland's Oregon Rail Heritage Center. It's been raining a LOT this morning, but the weather is supposed to clear up before 4PM PT departure time. I'm not riding the train today, just taking photos from the street. Stay tuned ...
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Thanks Peter! Looking forward to seeing your photos!
 
Oíche said:
I don't know why you didn't like the polariser, it would have worked wonders on this one, brought out the sky and took the relections from the windows... And B&W conversions look striking. Sorry for my polarising opinions :D
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Ha ha! It wasn't that I didn't like the CPL. The problem was more that for rail photography I am often shooting in different directions in quick succession.

As an example, I will photograph a train coming towards me and then get the reverse angle as it passes, which will be 90 degrees different angles. While the CPL might help for one angle, it won't for the other and seems to be more hindrance than help. I probably need to do some more testing, but unfortunately I don't get out as much as I'd like!

Oíche said:
We got a new bus/railway station. £350M apparently and I haven't been in it. Don't expect bullet trains though, it is still 2 hours to Dublin only 100 miles away and the buses from here are quicker. Not my photo BTW
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I like it! The roof is reminiscent of the design of the old locomotive depot roundhouses.

Oíche said:
Irish bullet trains... Definitely a bad naming for those in Belfast Z04 Motzer
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Yes, probably not the best! Trains here in Australia are not fast either. Politicians have been arguing for decades over building fast trains between cities but unfortunately most of them seem to have been captured by the road freight industry, so they don't spend money on new and straighter rail lines. Z02 Banned1
 
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