Train stopping at "Stockholm Södra" (Stockholm South) train station.
I have a new job, starting at the Stockholm metro, SL, latest by the first of February 2009, so that's where I am going. Purposely shot with really narrow aperture for the light effect, added 4x ND filter and ISO 100 to increase exposure further and then used a tripod. Doing that gets the moving people blurry while the train remains sharp.
I am going to work on the radio department in the IT section, I have a background in electronics with focus on radio communication and I hope it will be a fun and bright future!
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Hannu E. K. 56 months ago | reply
Hmm... May I guess that the lens aperture has seven blades?
Shot at the "Södra station" in Stockholm?
Good luck with your new job!
Is it as it seems; the old place is slowly loosing all the old fellows?
Dimitrios Chalias 56 months ago | reply
Hur får man till det stjärnformade ljuset på lyktorna? Är det ett filter eller något photoshop aktigt?
martinturner 56 months ago | reply
LOVE those lightbursts!!! Terrific shot!
ichimusai 56 months ago | reply
hearkane: Yes, it is the famous Nikkor AF 50 f/1.8 D that I have used, stopped it down a lot to get the starry lights though and used long shutter.
Yes it is Södra station track 1 where the trains leave to Bålsta and Kungsängen. I have checked this location out before and today I finally got the courage to go there despite all the people giving me funny looks mounting cameras and stuff around the are.
Regarding my old job there are some people who has left but as my boss say "we keep the good ones" :)
Dimman: Det får man om man har ett bra objektiv och kör väldigt små bländare mot punktformade ljuskällor när omgivningsljuset är svagt. Prova att dra ner bländaren till f/22 eller liknande och gå ut och plåta på natten, varenda ljusprick blir en stjärna men du får räkna med flera minuters slutartid då kanske.
Här körde jag dessutom ett gråfilter NDx4 som minskar ljusmängden fyra gånger för att ytterligare droppa ljuset och kunna köra längre slutartid än vad exponeringen skulle medgett annars.
Martinturner: Thanks a lot mate :)
Dimitrios Chalias 56 months ago | reply
Tack! Jag har uppfattat och ska prova det du förklarar.
Ps, fotot är som alla dina andra = toppkvalitet.
diesmali 56 months ago | reply
En häftig effekt, med mycket snyggt resultat.
Stjärn effekter är trevliga, men så här stora och utstuderade är svårt att få.
har du använt stjärnfilter? eller kanske cropat lite? eller är det bara för att ljusen är så starka som stjärnorna får längre strålar?
ichimusai 56 months ago | reply
diesmali Jag har beskurit den hårt. Från 12.3 MP ner till kanske 5 MP. Anledningen att jag ville använda mitt 50mm och jag kunde inte stå på en mycket bättre position utan att bli nedsprungen i rusningstrafiken. Det var ändå en del som glodde ogillande på mig med min cape och mitt svärd... förlåt, min ryggsäck, laptopväska, kamera och stativ :)
martinturner 56 months ago | reply
Had to take another look .... its so enticing! Love teh ghostly figures too. This is top stuff.
Thanks for the invite for your website too. Will take a look when I get five minutes in my very busy life :-)
ichimusai 56 months ago | reply
Most welcome martin! Check out the challenge, where this shot is a part of now :)
Joe Adams Photography 56 months ago | reply
Same here as well thanks. That first post of your's there is wonderful!
Hannu E. K. 56 months ago | reply
Hmm... five seconds and f/16 seems to be enough for some of this effect, have a look on the lighting here:
I actually wasn't clear over the cause ;-)
ichimusai 56 months ago | reply
crazycrazy: Thanks a lot! That's warming in this winter cold!
hearkane: Most lenses produce this above f/16 during the right conditions, the exposure time is not the issue, it is the aperture. When the aperture is very narrow you get optical diffusion and if your aperture diaphragm is not rounded point sources of light shows this behaviour.
Lenses are generally at their sharpest between 1-3 stops down from their maximum opening, if you stop them down more sharpness drops because of diffusion.
westindiangal 56 months ago | reply
Congratulations on the new job. I love the star points on this image and the blur of the people. Static, yet dynamic.
MJ__ 56 months ago | reply
With a Canon 17-40 4L for example you can get it as far down as f/14, it all depends on the lens. Look at the lights, not the moon.
(complete with dust on the sensor)
moström 56 months ago | reply
Snyggt ... du kan ju alltid sälja det som en reklambild till SL :)
Marie S... 56 months ago | reply
Nice one!
Congratulations on new job and new camera!!! (oh noooo.... I'm not envious at all.... the green tinge to my skin comes from eathing too much veggies...... ;-)
UpperPalatine 56 months ago | reply
I love that "star" effect resulting from the small aperture. Great composition also. Definitely a nice one!
ichimusai 56 months ago | reply
westindiagal: That was also my idea, the picture was shot as the answer to the question "Where are you going?" my new job is the company that runts the public transport in stockholm so I am going places, yet I am in Stockholm. And I am a fan of contrasts in photographs.
moström: Vem vet, det kanske kommer pryda den nya tidtabellen? :)
Marie: Vännen, jag har haft min gamla kamera i fyra år, nu firar jag mig själv och mitt nya jobb med att skuldsätta mig på en avbetalning :-)
UpperPalatine: This is the Nikkor 50/1.8 and it gives a very pronounced star effect at small apertures, try it out! Thanks for the nice comments!
UpperPalatine 56 months ago | reply
Yeah, look at this: www.flickr.com/photos/herrbaer/3044511618/
It is also done with Nikkor 50/1.8 (great lens!) an it also has got the stars ;-)