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Originally Posted by Gremlin
My best lens for long zooms is the Nikon 400mm, viabration reduction and auto focus bla bla .
The workman told me the top of the turbine motor, not blade, was 375 feet and I was stood about that distance away. Working on the square of the hypotenuse the camera was about 467 feet away from the subject. I was sat in the car resting the lens on the window bottom,manual mode including focus.
I had donned a high visibility vest and while on site I had my four way indicator winkers going on the car hoping they would think I was an official, I got away with it. I would not have attempted to go on site in a two wheel drive car, the track was really bad and chewed up with the heavy equipment they were using.
To say I was a bit chuffed with the outcome is an understatement.
I have never been much cop at the nature sort of stuff such as the ones Davemac and others post, mainly because my interest doesn't really cover that, unless there is a tractor or steam engine ploughing a field then I all for it.
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Russell, you have put you finger on what gets us out of the house and taking pictures, its having an interest in the subject that is being taken. I spent my working life in and around nature, and as such understand the subject, and hope that my insight displays itself in my output.
This is the same for other subjects such as mechanical things, someone who empathises with engines and other things power driven can see the subject in a fashion that would never be apparent to me, and can photograph them with an understanding of the subject.
So the idea of a theme becomes apparent in the type of photographs that we are all taking, some nature, some engines, some people, some birds, and it is this "theme" that sometimes we are not even aware of that shows itself in our photographs, and to other people sometimes before we know it.
Some photographers have people in every photo, mine have none (usually), so what I am saying is play to your strengths, show us your passion, and each of us should work on the theme that inspires.
I tried taking photos of everything, everywhere and mastered none, now an open question to all contributors to this thread "What is Your theme"