Re: 05-15-18 C&TSRR = Location ideas wanted
| June 06, 2018 03:18PM |
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How about from Robart's Ridge,* Roger?
You could follow the train with a slowly-zooming LOOONG telephoto as it approaches Big Horn from near milepost 299 and then comes straight at you past the telegraphone booth (which may or may not be visible, depending on exactly where you are standing and how much more the trees have grown:
Photos Copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
. . . goes left and then right, disappears behind a low hill and then pops out of the cut at milepost 301.5:
Photo Copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
. . . crosses to the left in front of Big Horn Peak:
Photo Copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
. . . and in front of you:
Photo Copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
. . . and then rounds the curve at milepost 202 and passes to the right beneath you:
Photos Copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Insert the telephoto close-up of the working engines into a more-or-less normal view of the whole scene as you pan across Big Horn Peak, following the train from m.p. 299 to m.p. 301, back toward 302 and then to the right again.
Of course this would work best with a westbound train in the afternoon so the light would be somewhat behind you — but beggars can't be choosers, so they say . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
* See the description & map at [ngdiscussion.net].
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/06/2018 07:39PM by Russo Loco.
You could follow the train with a slowly-zooming LOOONG telephoto as it approaches Big Horn from near milepost 299 and then comes straight at you past the telegraphone booth (which may or may not be visible, depending on exactly where you are standing and how much more the trees have grown:
Photos Copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
. . . goes left and then right, disappears behind a low hill and then pops out of the cut at milepost 301.5:
Photo Copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
. . . crosses to the left in front of Big Horn Peak:
Photo Copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
. . . and in front of you:
Photo Copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
. . . and then rounds the curve at milepost 202 and passes to the right beneath you:
Photos Copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
Insert the telephoto close-up of the working engines into a more-or-less normal view of the whole scene as you pan across Big Horn Peak, following the train from m.p. 299 to m.p. 301, back toward 302 and then to the right again.
Of course this would work best with a westbound train in the afternoon so the light would be somewhat behind you — but beggars can't be choosers, so they say . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
* See the description & map at [ngdiscussion.net].
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/06/2018 07:39PM by Russo Loco.
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