I’ve been contemplating the purchase of an SLR1 camera of the digital variety for quite some time. You may not be aware of my fascination for photography of trains and rail transport, which I don’t do very often due primarily to a lack of time, or more likely the lack of a decent camera.
I’ve been out train-spotting in the past, I’ll get some photos up of our most recent sojourn, and I tend to feel intimidated by the other train-spotters there with their Digital SLR cameras, and I’m also jealous of those who post decent quality photos on forums such as Railpage Australia, and Flickr profiles such as Raichase, F~R~E~D and hurstville1.
I think another one of my problems is the fact that I don’t know where the best locations to photograph the trains is, and I don’t know the best times to be at those locations. That seriously makes photography quite difficult. Find what I think to be a suitable location could end up being a waste of time as you wait for 30 minutes for a train to arrive, and last for all over 2 minutes. Or you just miss an opportunity for a photo of a train worth photographing. Knowing the times they are due would be very advantageous, and I do wonder where the photographers I previously mentioned2 get their timetable information from.
I’ll get some of my existing photos I have taken up shortly, and I’ll let you critique them for me, and tell me whether I have potential. Feel free to be as mean or as nice as you wish.
So back to my desire to own a Digital SLR, it has been in the thought train for quite some time, and I just haven’t had the cash to make a splurge like that, until now, so I’m not sure whether purchasing it would encourage me to head out more often, or it would just sit on my shelf dormant until the odd trip comes up, or I have a few hours to spare chasing trains.
- Single-Lens Reflex [↩]
- Raichase, Fred & Hurstville [↩]
