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Post by chrish on Jun 30, 2009 22:57:50 GMT
Here's a couple of the A406 aka the North Circular.   |
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Post by stuartB on Jun 30, 2009 22:59:10 GMT
Here's a couple of the A406 aka the North Circular. nice pics Chris but how did you do it? |
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Post by chrish on Jul 1, 2009 7:50:23 GMT
Ok. I think your Camera should be the same as mine. Switch the left hand dial to "m". Then move the manual dial near the shutter release to the left I think. This will decrease the shutter speed. When you do this the number should turn red and the lowest speed setting is 30 seconds. This means that it'll take 30 seconds for the shutter to close again. So basically it'll absorb every movement in 30 seconds and record it in picture format. Our camera's have shutter intervals at 30, 20, 15, 10 seconds and so on (these are all displayed in red), right down to 4000/1 at the other end of the spectrum. Theres also a manual BULB setting which allows you to manual set the shutter speed. You press and hold the button to open the shutter and then release the button to close the shutter.
You notice that after you take a picture it takes a while to process it. The longer the shutter speed the longer the processing time.
Last night was my first stab at traffic pictures. I'm quite pleased with them but it'll would've been better if i'd put it on the tripod and used the auto picture taker. The less you move the camera the clearer the background will be. I'll have another go with the tripod. I just balanced it on the railing last night and I think I was too scared to drop the thing off the bridge so I probably moved it a little, hence the blurred buildings and road lights. I'll get it right in the end though!
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Post by Dave on Jul 1, 2009 16:41:48 GMT
Chris I loved your shots of the moving cars at night, taking such pictures was a thing I loved doing when I got my first decent SLR film camera. I started with a Minolta 700 but soon moved onto a Minolta 7000, both those had the BULB setting that meant you could leave open the shutter as long as you liked. It was always best to a use a tripod and a cable release to make sure there was no camera movement. All the pictures below I took 24 years ago on Torquay seafront, the first one was a five minute exposure, well that’s how long I had the lenses open, but the trick was to cover the lenses when there was no traffic. The last picture is very strange and I swear I just took the shot as normal, This shot was taken from the foot bridge on Torquay seafront 24 years ago; I love the middle part where the colour goes from red to orange as cars indicate to turn right. Also interesting to see that the electrical flashes across the road as the cars had driven over the sensors for the traffic lights.its the only time you will see red, anber and green all on at the same time on the trafiic lights   This shot was taken from Rock Walk  The pond on the seafront next to Belgrave Road with a young 12 year old Ant in the shot.  This shot I can’t explain I’m afraid, it was taken on the grass in front of the fountain and the building is the pavilions, now those who know where I stood to take this picture will know there are no coloured lights in front of the building. If you look closely you can see they go across the middle of the picture and reflect in front of the fountain into what looks like water?  |
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Post by stuartB on Jul 1, 2009 20:03:20 GMT
Ok. I think your Camera should be the same as mine. Switch the left hand dial to "m". Then move the manual dial near the shutter release to the left I think. This will decrease the shutter speed. When you do this the number should turn red and the lowest speed setting is 30 seconds. This means that it'll take 30 seconds for the shutter to close again. So basically it'll absorb every movement in 30 seconds and record it in picture format. Our camera's have shutter intervals at 30, 20, 15, 10 seconds and so on (these are all displayed in red), right down to 4000/1 at the other end of the spectrum. Theres also a manual BULB setting which allows you to manual set the shutter speed. You press and hold the button to open the shutter and then release the button to close the shutter. You notice that after you take a picture it takes a while to process it. The longer the shutter speed the longer the processing time. Last night was my first stab at traffic pictures. I'm quite pleased with them but it'll would've been better if i'd put it on the tripod and used the auto picture taker. The less you move the camera the clearer the background will be. I'll have another go with the tripod. I just balanced it on the railing last night and I think I was too scared to drop the thing off the bridge so I probably moved it a little, hence the blurred buildings and road lights. I'll get it right in the end though! brilliant, thanks. I'll give it a go to prove you can educate pork and an old dog new tricks ;D |
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Post by chrish on Jul 1, 2009 20:48:33 GMT
That's an excellent shot of the seafront Dave. The last time I saw traffic lights like that was when Professor Peach changed the tapes in the Turin Traffic Control Centre.
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Post by chrish on Jul 6, 2009 22:17:00 GMT
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Post by crooky on Sept 4, 2009 17:05:14 GMT
I've always loved the description of London as a "thousand villages". Here's me in one of those former hamlets - well off the main tourist trail - sometime in the early 1960s. Where was I?  Gunnersbury Park lake. Takes me back to my childhood. Spent many happy days working up a sweat in one of those old paddle or rowing boats. The boating was followed by a round on the 18 hole pitch and putt golf course. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2009 20:45:21 GMT
That's the place, Crooky! We had relatives up and down Gunnersbury Avenue and spent a couple of weeks there every summer.
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Post by crooky on Sept 5, 2009 13:25:24 GMT
That's the place, Crooky! We had relatives up and down Gunnersbury Avenue and spent a couple of weeks there every summer. I'm a born and bred west London boy myself who spent most of his life growing up in nearby Greenford. My nan used to live right by Ealing common so we used to venture down to hers and then onto Gunnersbury quite often. I wonder if the museum is still there? Haven't been down there for ages. I note from your picture that they even provide rowing boats for our wonderful leader Mr DaveR....sorry Dave, couldn't resist it ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2009 19:58:52 GMT
I'm a born and bred west London boy myself who spent most of his life growing up in nearby Greenford. My nan used to live right by Ealing common so we used to venture down to hers and then onto Gunnersbury quite often. I wonder if the museum is still there? Haven't been down there for ages. I'm in Uxbridge for a few days this week and can see myself heading towards Gunnersbury Park when I've got some time on Friday... As for Ealing Common, my parents were married at the nearby church and lived in a flat at Wolverton Mansions - overlooking the common - before moving to Babbacombe in the late 1940s. Should you ever chance on Kingsbridge Avenue, W3, it's so-called because a member of my mother's family (originally from the South Hams) built the houses along there. For a similar reason, the house next to the Old Actonians - owned by a cousin of my mother's - was called "Dodbrooke" (as in the village next to KIngsbridge). And - back in the 1960s - she certainly had celebrity neighbours because Sid James and Arthur Haynes (remember him?) each lived just along the way. |
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Post by crooky on Sept 7, 2009 20:53:42 GMT
My parents were also married in the church by Ealing Common..small world Barton. My nan used to live in St Matthews Road which is by the Grange pub. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, we have no builders in the family. However, my brother did build rather a crap fence when he was about 10..and we haven't let him forget about his fence building exploits since! One of my aunts apparently used to babysit Ferne Britton who also lived nearby.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2009 21:22:23 GMT
Small world indeed, Crooky!
All Saints', Ealing Common, built in 1905 as a memorial to Spencer Perceval, Britain's only assassinated Prime Minister.
Reception at the Faversham Hotel, Hanger Lane, according to the telegram I found just now....(if it's gone, remember it was 1946!).
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Post by Budleigh on Sept 7, 2009 21:27:02 GMT
As Dave no doubt knows, the tooling for the Coronation coach, large version, that Lesney produced for that occasion was already to go as it had originally been set up to produce this model as a State coach with the late King George VI and Queen inside it. But he died before production and the moulds etc were re-used for the Queen's coronation instead. Only problem was it was produced with the two figures inside until it was realised that Queen Elizabeth would be riding in it alone without Prince Phillip. Just over 100 coaches had been produced when this announcement was made and very quickly the male figure was machined out of the mould but a few models got out before this modification could be made, thereafter the moulds had only the one figure. Luckily I managed to get one of these two-figure models.. !
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Post by Dave on Sept 7, 2009 21:47:46 GMT
You lucky bugger, mine has just got the queen and when they redid the moulds they left the kings legs in the new ones. Still I'm pleased I stopped the one I have from going to the USA as it looked like it would until I put in a bid that had me running down to Carol and saying "Just what have I done"Still I bet my display just beats yours ;D  |
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