Swansea Low Light, 17th November 2012

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MARTIN BRAY

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Nov 17, 2012, 3:53:20 PM11/17/12
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I went through a fairly quick learning curve and due to the close proximity of the vehicles 1/250s was the slowest shutter speed that didn't produce softness on the front of the bus. Had I been much further away then I may have been able to drop the shutter speed to 1/125s and the grain would have diminshed as well. 6400asa was the ISO setting. The only adjustments I made in CS6 was temperature to take some colour cast out, exposure and sharpening to the final image size. Camera is a Canon 550D with 50mm prime lens.
 
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Martin Bray, Swansea, UK

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David Beilby

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Nov 17, 2012, 4:03:29 PM11/17/12
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Nice! A good variety of subject matter too. There seems to be a bit
of lighting other than sodium lighting which helps bring out the
colours.

All this talk made me go out tonight, or rather it made me take my
camera with me on a trip I had to make anyway and I got a few,
although I need to put them on the computer to see how I went on (and
they would be OT anyway). If it hadn't been for this correspondence I
wouldn't even have thought to take my camera, so thanks for the
motivation!

Regards,

David Beilby
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MARTIN BRAY

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Nov 17, 2012, 4:18:53 PM11/17/12
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The xmas lights are being switched on in Swansea tomorrow. Once again the step entrance Dart was out on 27 route to Penplas, so the evening was orientated about that.
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Martin Bray, Swansea, UK

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Nice!  A good variety of subject matter too.  There seems to be a bit of lighting other than sodium lighting which helps bring out the colours.

All this talk made me go out tonight, or rather it made me take my camera with me on a trip I had to make anyway and I got a few, although I need to put them on the computer to see how I went on (and they would be OT anyway).  If it hadn't been for this correspondence I wouldn't even have thought to take my camera, so thanks for the motivation!

Regards,

David Beilby


On 17 Nov 2012, at 20:53, MARTIN BRAY wrote:

> I went through a fairly quick learning curve and due to the close proximity of the vehicles 1/250s was the slowest shutter speed that didn't produce softness on the front of the bus. Had I been much further away then I may have been able to drop the shutter speed to 1/125s and the grain would have diminshed as well. 6400asa was the ISO setting. The only adjustments I made in CS6 was temperature to take some colour cast out, exposure and sharpening to the final image size. Camera is a Canon 550D with 50mm prime lens.
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Philip Weaver

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Nov 18, 2012, 3:16:06 PM11/18/12
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Really lovely shots, Martin - well done. Hope you do some more 'night time' shots for us.

Martin Bray

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Nov 18, 2012, 4:58:22 PM11/18/12
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Ta Phil. On reflection there wasn't a lot of impact with the pictures as the background was lit, which is where David's pictures stood out. Anyway the xmas lights are now on, so maybe another jaunt into town.
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Cymru Coastliner

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Nov 18, 2012, 5:26:23 PM11/18/12
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Some pictures to be proud of there Martin. Hmm, T206 AFM looks
suspiciously like a Warrington Dart! I much prefer the old First
livery to the new, it actually looks quite classy in the dark.

Steve

On Nov 17, 8:53 pm, MARTIN BRAY <martin.br...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> I went through a fairly quick learning curve and due to the close proximity of the vehicles 1/250s was the slowest shutter speed that didn't produce softness on the front of the bus. Had I been much further away then I may have been able to drop the shutter speed to 1/125s and the grain would have diminshed as well. 6400asa was the ISO setting. The only adjustments I made in CS6 was temperature to take some colour cast out, exposure and sharpening to the final image size. Camera is a Canon 550D with 50mm prime lens.
>
> Regards
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> Martin Bray, Swansea, UK
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