tonymp
Senior Member
A little pap grab work this week.
On a Sunday recently I was passing through my local town after having been out to shoot some portraits of a young lady and her horse. The traffic was being diverted and being the curious natured person I am, I decided to follow the diversion and see what had occurred to warrant the diversion. I could however, see that some kind of incident had occurred involving a car, further along the road.
When I arrived at the end of the side-street which returns back onto the diverted road, I came upon this scene and couldn't resist grabbing my camera off the seat beside me and in the space of 10 seconds managed fired off three shots with one foot in the car and one on the road. No time to set up camera as there was a queue of vehicles behind me, so it was a case use the manual settings of the previous shots and fire the shots off in the hope that the exposure was somewhere near! The aperture was wide open at f2.8, so limited DOF with my 35-70 - ISO 250.
Apparently, an elderly gentleman had emerged from the junction where my car was placed and turned left - in doing so collided with the rear of a car just around the corner and instead of hitting the brake, hit the accelerator and in turn the vehicle carreered across the road and into the pub on the other side of the road.
It sounds funny now BUT, what would have happened if there had been say a mother and child passing on the footpath at the time? The thought doesn't bear thinking about! Fortunately no one was hurt in this case but it had certainly hit it with some force.
Just to add, an elderly lady was having a meal at the other side of the window and when interviewed by the local reporter, she added in typically British style... " Well I wasn't too shocked but I did ask the magagement if they would move me to another table ". Only a Brit could say something like that!
There were quite a few onlookers and one guy with camera wandered into frame just as I was taking the first shot.
Tony.
Full frame from the camera. (35mm)
A closer look..(70mm)
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The only thing that gets sharper with use is a woman's tongue!
http://www.le-femme.co.uk
On a Sunday recently I was passing through my local town after having been out to shoot some portraits of a young lady and her horse. The traffic was being diverted and being the curious natured person I am, I decided to follow the diversion and see what had occurred to warrant the diversion. I could however, see that some kind of incident had occurred involving a car, further along the road.
When I arrived at the end of the side-street which returns back onto the diverted road, I came upon this scene and couldn't resist grabbing my camera off the seat beside me and in the space of 10 seconds managed fired off three shots with one foot in the car and one on the road. No time to set up camera as there was a queue of vehicles behind me, so it was a case use the manual settings of the previous shots and fire the shots off in the hope that the exposure was somewhere near! The aperture was wide open at f2.8, so limited DOF with my 35-70 - ISO 250.
Apparently, an elderly gentleman had emerged from the junction where my car was placed and turned left - in doing so collided with the rear of a car just around the corner and instead of hitting the brake, hit the accelerator and in turn the vehicle carreered across the road and into the pub on the other side of the road.
It sounds funny now BUT, what would have happened if there had been say a mother and child passing on the footpath at the time? The thought doesn't bear thinking about! Fortunately no one was hurt in this case but it had certainly hit it with some force.
Just to add, an elderly lady was having a meal at the other side of the window and when interviewed by the local reporter, she added in typically British style... " Well I wasn't too shocked but I did ask the magagement if they would move me to another table ". Only a Brit could say something like that!
There were quite a few onlookers and one guy with camera wandered into frame just as I was taking the first shot.
Tony.
Full frame from the camera. (35mm)
A closer look..(70mm)
--
The only thing that gets sharper with use is a woman's tongue!
http://www.le-femme.co.uk
