legostudios34 wrote:No signs at all. Its a driveway for a farm I thinkm
Even farm crossings usually have signs...at least around here...
Different states, different laws. Most farmers crossings don't require any kind of signs, and the horn isn't usually blown for them either. Its not a 'public crossing at grade' its a private one.
Plus, with signs on the crossing, doing a 'pan' they'd be blurry and distracting anyway.
MQT3001 wrote:Not quite a traditional pan, but I like it!
As a non-photographer, what would you define as being a traditional pan?
If Baxter had shown me that picture and said it was a pan shot, I would have been able to identify how it's a fake because of one particular aspect of a pan shot. Can you?
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GRHC - you know every night I can imagine he is in front of his computer screen sitting in his underwear swearing profusely and drinking Blatz beer combing the RailRoadFan website for grammatical errors.
On Sunday afternoon I practiced shooting real pan shots of cars. I probably shot 100 pictures but only 10 or so came out decent. I was about to try it on the DPU of a coal train yesterday when the camera battery died... So no real pan shots of trains for now.
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MQT3001 wrote:Not quite a traditional pan, but I like it!
As a non-photographer, what would you define as being a traditional pan?
If Baxter had shown me that picture and said it was a pan shot, I would have been able to identify how it's a fake because of one particular aspect of a pan shot. Can you?
The scenery is fuzz, not elongated like a normal pan.
J T wrote:
If Baxter had shown me that picture and said it was a pan shot, I would have been able to identify how it's a fake because of one particular aspect of a pan shot. Can you?
Just a guess: In a pan, isn't it usually the 'center of focus' that stays 'stationary' while the edges would be a bit blurry?
MQT3001 wrote:
The scenery is fuzz, not elongated like a normal pan.
Well that would all depend on the shutter speed and how fast the pan movement is. Pans don't always look elongated.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimthias/
GRHC - you know every night I can imagine he is in front of his computer screen sitting in his underwear swearing profusely and drinking Blatz beer combing the RailRoadFan website for grammatical errors.
J T wrote:
If Baxter had shown me that picture and said it was a pan shot, I would have been able to identify how it's a fake because of one particular aspect of a pan shot. Can you?
Just a guess: In a pan, isn't it usually the 'center of focus' that stays 'stationary' while the edges would be a bit blurry?
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And a correct guess at that. The sharpest part of a pan should be directly in front of you (in the case of a train, perpendicular to the subject). As the lens captures the subject beyond the 90 degree angle to the left and right, the movement between the subject and the lens is at a different speed, hence it will show the effect of motion blur.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimthias/
GRHC - you know every night I can imagine he is in front of his computer screen sitting in his underwear swearing profusely and drinking Blatz beer combing the RailRoadFan website for grammatical errors.