208. Passenger - June 11-17, 2017
Darin-
This is super lame, but Plan A through L didn't pan out, so I'm left with my Plan M photo.
Iggy Pop is my passenger. One of my favorite songs to listen to while I'm on my bicycle is Iggy Pop's The Passenger.
This is super lame, but Plan A through L didn't pan out, so I'm left with my Plan M photo.
Iggy Pop is my passenger. One of my favorite songs to listen to while I'm on my bicycle is Iggy Pop's The Passenger.
Kevin-
Well for Passenger my preference was really to photograph a passenger inside my car, or perhaps one of Byron's cars (should I figure out a way to "roll" the car), which undoubtedly would have created priceless facial expressions on the part of the passenger (who would have been Paul). Alas time, distance and minor (or major) risk kept me from pursuing that particular approach.
A simpler version of passenger would have been to photograph a parent walking with their child in a carrier, in a stroller, riding on their shoulders, placed in a shipping crate or other various ways that children are transported today. But having no close friends with babies or grand babies I couldn't come up with a subject. And I am not really a street photographer type of guy, photographing strangers and their passengers as they walk by.
So ultimately I went back to a car shot, not of a passenger, but from a passenger point of view. I fixed my tripod to the passenger seat of the Porsche Cayman S with bungee cords and placed my Nikon on top of the tripod. I waited for enough darkness to fall that lights of other cars, buildings, etc. would be turned on, then I drove up and down Excelsior Boulevard and Lake Street in Minneapolis taking exposures with a wireless remote, not certain what I was capturing until I returned home. A 3X neutral density filter was used to lengthen the exposure times, increasing the blur. Since I knew that it was a mostly black night scene and the car interior was mostly black as well I used Aperture Priority with -1 1/3 stops of exposure compensation to keep the blacks from looking gray.
Nikon D4s, mounted on a Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 tripod with a Acratech GP ballhead, 24-70mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens set to 24mm. ISO 100, f/8 at 15 seconds.
Wanna be a passenger? Climb in and I will put the hammer down!
Well for Passenger my preference was really to photograph a passenger inside my car, or perhaps one of Byron's cars (should I figure out a way to "roll" the car), which undoubtedly would have created priceless facial expressions on the part of the passenger (who would have been Paul). Alas time, distance and minor (or major) risk kept me from pursuing that particular approach.
A simpler version of passenger would have been to photograph a parent walking with their child in a carrier, in a stroller, riding on their shoulders, placed in a shipping crate or other various ways that children are transported today. But having no close friends with babies or grand babies I couldn't come up with a subject. And I am not really a street photographer type of guy, photographing strangers and their passengers as they walk by.
So ultimately I went back to a car shot, not of a passenger, but from a passenger point of view. I fixed my tripod to the passenger seat of the Porsche Cayman S with bungee cords and placed my Nikon on top of the tripod. I waited for enough darkness to fall that lights of other cars, buildings, etc. would be turned on, then I drove up and down Excelsior Boulevard and Lake Street in Minneapolis taking exposures with a wireless remote, not certain what I was capturing until I returned home. A 3X neutral density filter was used to lengthen the exposure times, increasing the blur. Since I knew that it was a mostly black night scene and the car interior was mostly black as well I used Aperture Priority with -1 1/3 stops of exposure compensation to keep the blacks from looking gray.
Nikon D4s, mounted on a Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 tripod with a Acratech GP ballhead, 24-70mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens set to 24mm. ISO 100, f/8 at 15 seconds.
Wanna be a passenger? Climb in and I will put the hammer down!
Paul-
I love trains of just about any size, and this is probably my third favorite in Lincoln. It’s the Iron Horse Railroad train at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo. To be specific, it’s a C.P. Huntington replica that sports the number 20 on both sides because it was the 20th engine manufactured by Chance Rides of Wichita, KS. The official designation for the line is now the “ZO&O. Railroad” Volunteers, among them actual train engineers, began laying track for the train in 1963. This is significant (perhaps even remarkable) because the plans for the zoo were not yet finalized at the time—indeed, the zoo didn’t open until 1965.
I’ll let the more adventuresome (and math literate) among you handle the slide rule and come up with a zoopark figure, but the train route around the zoo is 1 ¼ miles, the zoo is open 7 days a week during most of the year, the train makes two circuits every 15 minutes, and more 234,000 folks visited the zoo last year. Yeah, there’s some details missing here, but anyway you add (and multiply) it up, this little-engine-that-can has put on some serious miles.
During Halloween and part of the Christmas season, the train is bedecked with colored lights and cobwebs (befitting the former holiday) and if you want to ride you’d better get in line awfully early.
Kids love it. Adults (myself included) love it. It’s a helluva lot of fun even if there’s no dining car.
Okay, Paul, carry on: (11:24AM) Nikon D5200; aperture priority; 18-55mm lens focused at 38mm; ISO 800; 1/125 sec. at f/22;.matrix metered; WB Sun, -0.3 EV. The cropping done in Adobe Lightroom and, for the first time, I used a couple of the program's developing presents--one that provided a subtle contrast curve and another called "Pop" that....well, you can probably figure that one out. The camera was hand-held and I was sitting on the ground to get the vantage point I wanted.
Naturally, I performed the mandatory wave to the passengers after the shot, and most of them executed the mandatory wave in return. Hey, these kind of things are important.
I love trains of just about any size, and this is probably my third favorite in Lincoln. It’s the Iron Horse Railroad train at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo. To be specific, it’s a C.P. Huntington replica that sports the number 20 on both sides because it was the 20th engine manufactured by Chance Rides of Wichita, KS. The official designation for the line is now the “ZO&O. Railroad” Volunteers, among them actual train engineers, began laying track for the train in 1963. This is significant (perhaps even remarkable) because the plans for the zoo were not yet finalized at the time—indeed, the zoo didn’t open until 1965.
I’ll let the more adventuresome (and math literate) among you handle the slide rule and come up with a zoopark figure, but the train route around the zoo is 1 ¼ miles, the zoo is open 7 days a week during most of the year, the train makes two circuits every 15 minutes, and more 234,000 folks visited the zoo last year. Yeah, there’s some details missing here, but anyway you add (and multiply) it up, this little-engine-that-can has put on some serious miles.
During Halloween and part of the Christmas season, the train is bedecked with colored lights and cobwebs (befitting the former holiday) and if you want to ride you’d better get in line awfully early.
Kids love it. Adults (myself included) love it. It’s a helluva lot of fun even if there’s no dining car.
Okay, Paul, carry on: (11:24AM) Nikon D5200; aperture priority; 18-55mm lens focused at 38mm; ISO 800; 1/125 sec. at f/22;.matrix metered; WB Sun, -0.3 EV. The cropping done in Adobe Lightroom and, for the first time, I used a couple of the program's developing presents--one that provided a subtle contrast curve and another called "Pop" that....well, you can probably figure that one out. The camera was hand-held and I was sitting on the ground to get the vantage point I wanted.
Naturally, I performed the mandatory wave to the passengers after the shot, and most of them executed the mandatory wave in return. Hey, these kind of things are important.
Jerry-
My first thought with the passenger theme was to go for a ride on either a bus or the light rail. But I wimped out and took a photo of other people about to be passengers on the light rail. And the little person asleep in the stroller is certainly a passenger.
Camera was the Sony a6300 with 55-200 zoomed to 186 mm (yup), exposure 1/125 @ F11, ISO 1600. Changed to bw in photoshop.
I will be out of the country until July 13th but will make an attempt to connect with you guys. Colombia is my destination and I am not sure about wifi depending on where in the country we're in etc. So if you don't hear from me with WPOTM stuff, keep calm and carry on.
My first thought with the passenger theme was to go for a ride on either a bus or the light rail. But I wimped out and took a photo of other people about to be passengers on the light rail. And the little person asleep in the stroller is certainly a passenger.
Camera was the Sony a6300 with 55-200 zoomed to 186 mm (yup), exposure 1/125 @ F11, ISO 1600. Changed to bw in photoshop.
I will be out of the country until July 13th but will make an attempt to connect with you guys. Colombia is my destination and I am not sure about wifi depending on where in the country we're in etc. So if you don't hear from me with WPOTM stuff, keep calm and carry on.
Don-
My wife and I go for walks and the dogs are passengers in their dogger cart. The larger dog has breathing problems
and with much fur she cannot walk long. The little one prefers to be up high so he can bark at the bigger dogs, so they ride and I push.
Now the info. The camera is a Nikon D810. Lens is a 24 to 70 f/2.8. Focal was 44mm. Exposure is 1/400 seconds; f/8; ISO 450 (camera set on Auto ISO); Aperture Priority and Pattern Metering. Brightness and colors adjusted in Camera Raw and Cropped in Photoshop. May all the Fathers have a good Fathers Day.
My wife and I go for walks and the dogs are passengers in their dogger cart. The larger dog has breathing problems
and with much fur she cannot walk long. The little one prefers to be up high so he can bark at the bigger dogs, so they ride and I push.
Now the info. The camera is a Nikon D810. Lens is a 24 to 70 f/2.8. Focal was 44mm. Exposure is 1/400 seconds; f/8; ISO 450 (camera set on Auto ISO); Aperture Priority and Pattern Metering. Brightness and colors adjusted in Camera Raw and Cropped in Photoshop. May all the Fathers have a good Fathers Day.
Byron-
This theme took some time to come up with of a photo. Since Erl & I take a fair number of road trips, and she's always the passenger, I went that route. I mounted my trusty GoPro camera on the window with a suction mount. I set the view to wide. I also put it in still photo mode and set the burst rate to 30 frames during 6 seconds. As you can see, Erl is looking at a paper map and is lost. She is talking to someone on the phone trying to figure out where we are. I am in agony behind the wheel.
ISO 119, 3mm lens, f/2.8, 1/20 sec
This theme took some time to come up with of a photo. Since Erl & I take a fair number of road trips, and she's always the passenger, I went that route. I mounted my trusty GoPro camera on the window with a suction mount. I set the view to wide. I also put it in still photo mode and set the burst rate to 30 frames during 6 seconds. As you can see, Erl is looking at a paper map and is lost. She is talking to someone on the phone trying to figure out where we are. I am in agony behind the wheel.
ISO 119, 3mm lens, f/2.8, 1/20 sec