Bill Anderson
Well-Known Member
I am going to do something different from my usual posts to the MP 17 and MP 18 threads. Thursday afternoon (6/22/17) my son and I went up to Pt. Edwards and set up my camera equipment at a viewpoint on Pine St. above the condos that appear in the background of many of my photos. I will write this thread like a play in eight acts starring the trains you see in the photos.
Intro:
Except for the last three shots of the thread (#28-30), the panoramic shots were taken with my 7D + 24-105L wide angle zoom. The telephoto shots were taken with my 5DIII + 500L + 1.4x telecoverter, which you see below with my son Daren. All photos were taken @ 1/250, f/16, and auto ISO. None of the photos have been cropped.
This shot was taken with the 5DIII + 24-105L wide angle zoom @ 50mm to give readers a sense of location and actual distance. The street in the background is Sunset Ave. and MP 18. Using the railroad mileposts, it is about a mile north of me. The flat area in the foreground with water is the marsh, where I have taken most of the MP 17 shots while out photographing birds. The tracks across the water in the far distance are near Picnic Pt., another good railfan spot with beach access via a pedestrian overpass over the tracks.
Note: I will be referring to the trains by their geographic direction of travel, which is different from their timetable direction of travel. Geographic north = timetable (tt) east, geographinc south = timetable west. The timetable direction of travel is what you would hear if you were monitoring the rail traffic with a scanner.
Intro:
Except for the last three shots of the thread (#28-30), the panoramic shots were taken with my 7D + 24-105L wide angle zoom. The telephoto shots were taken with my 5DIII + 500L + 1.4x telecoverter, which you see below with my son Daren. All photos were taken @ 1/250, f/16, and auto ISO. None of the photos have been cropped.
This shot was taken with the 5DIII + 24-105L wide angle zoom @ 50mm to give readers a sense of location and actual distance. The street in the background is Sunset Ave. and MP 18. Using the railroad mileposts, it is about a mile north of me. The flat area in the foreground with water is the marsh, where I have taken most of the MP 17 shots while out photographing birds. The tracks across the water in the far distance are near Picnic Pt., another good railfan spot with beach access via a pedestrian overpass over the tracks.
Note: I will be referring to the trains by their geographic direction of travel, which is different from their timetable direction of travel. Geographic north = timetable (tt) east, geographinc south = timetable west. The timetable direction of travel is what you would hear if you were monitoring the rail traffic with a scanner.
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