January 04, 2021 07:52PM
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John West Wrote:
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> This thread needs help to keep from dropping
> off the bottom of the page
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At well over 100 posts – a few almost every day for a good three weeks – it looks to me like it's doing pretty well, John!
Kudos to Scott for starting it!!
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. . . One of the things that make going-away
> shots interesting is almost nobody plans them,
> we carefully set up for the coming shot, and then
> turn around and grab a going away shot just be-
> cause it is there. The result is going-away shots
> often are more spontaneous, less formal, and
> often have interesting back-lighting, and so on.
Scott Turner Wrote:
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> John, I think you nailed it. Spontaneity. Grab-
> bing the shot that suddenly presents itself when
> you thought you were all done. Yep, that's it
> exactly!
I'm a bit weird that way, Scott -
But you knew that already. I actually DID plan for going-away shots, at least once in a while. My all-time favorite, though a bit dark due to being shot in a light drizzle, is the third one on [
ngdiscussion.net], above. I had a bit of time to carefully position my tripod to get coming AND going, and with a hinged mount had set the coming-on shot to be portrait and then swing around 120° or so AND flip the camera down to landscape AND advance the film & cock the shutter. The really big surprise, which I didn't even notice 'til I got the slides back from Kodak, was that I had caught the brakeman moving carefully along the rain-dampened roofwalks toward his doghouse on the tender of the road engine. The approach shot made it into
TRAINS magazine as a centerfold a couple of years ago, and the going-away shot didn't even make it as a 3×5 insert. Oh, well — at least Olaf, who was standing beside me, caught the whole thing on video!
Later on I had a Mamiya RB67, which had a rotating back, so again I sometimes planned an oncoming portrait and going-away landscape pair – see the eighth and ninth photos on [
ngdiscussion.net]. Advancing the film and cocking the shutter were two separate processes on the Mamiya, though, and more than once I spoiled what would have been a pretty good approach shot with a second exposure that would at best have been a mediocre photo
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To get back to
Narrow Gauge, and finish on a brighter note, here's one of Tom Gildersleeve's more unusual photos — #491 with a flapping rear-end device, heading west toward Gato not far from where John shot the first of the three just above
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- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/2021 07:59PM by Russo Loco.
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