so did or didnt you reach Edge Hill?
Sadly no we didn't. We ran out of time and had to turn back about a quarter of the way into the Victoria Tunnel but we plan to get towards the Edge Hill portal on our next visit.
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so did or didnt you reach Edge Hill?
Just aim for better output than from report No3 below lol
Deffo an improvement in the right direction
As you"ve found out trying to light up any tunnel with the huge amount of light coming in through the portal is a challenge & i"d suggest you shoot in the opposite direction for the majority of your pics unless you have a really high light source to compensate. or it"s later in the day and the lights fading.
As for the semi-live bit it was a real sphincter twitcher for a moment lol
thoughts: pics look overlid, less can be more
that little room could be lid by a candle maybe, covered by something, to do not blind the camera
or torch in low power, indirect to wall
in the shot towards way in, you could stand in the pic to block the light in the middle
I use torch with hard beam to make autofocus working, auto shutter time and 2 sec delay
if lid too much, shadows disappear, but these are a good effect to give the pic deepness
for nearly every pic I make, afterwards I have to reduce "gamma" (whatever this is) to take some fog away
I don't know whether there's a perfect way to do it.
I have seen very well, "perfect lid" pics, but do they really show the place as I see and feel it, when I go there ?
Also those often needed a lot of work.
I do look a pics from other users and try to find out what they have done better than me.
Camera positioning is an other thing, on the ground, between the rails for example gives different views.
You made some trials with different lid foreground, a good way I think
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Waterloo Tunnel was my first report on here
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/waterloo-tunnel-liverpool-01-2013.t78138
I"m a believer in trying to get the results in Camera rather than relying on Software. Which TBH if you"re shooting in the dark you don"t have much choice, & that"as why you don"t see the HDR Photomatix boys in Tunnels shooting multiple shots lol
It"s also hard to compare reports of locations purely on how they"re both lit 7 shot by individuals. And of course as well as by what means of lighting ie we"ve gone from the old Yellow lights of old onto Cree LED units of Blue light onto the cool white we now have today.....well some of us
As for the ? of fully lighting a Tunnel, i like to see the colours and natural features inside, how can you show a tunnel as you see it in total darkness ? all you have is light from the portals and possibly light from any airshafts the tunnel may contain.
Shoot & light it as you want & fuck everyone else (including me just sharing what i do for my shit
the cutting is actually the old hodson station as confirmed by a newspaper and my grandmother who lived next to the cutting all her life, the entrance was stairs leading down from where the new electric hut is now. the bridge is the middle that is blocked from both sides is the only remaining part of hodson street.
Spoken like a true professionalthoughts: pics look overlid, less can be more
that little room could be lid by a candle maybe, covered by something, to do not blind the camera
or torch in low power, indirect to wall
in the shot towards way in, you could stand in the pic to block the light in the middle
I use torch with hard beam to make autofocus working, auto shutter time and 2 sec delay
if lid too much, shadows disappear, but these are a good effect to give the pic deepness
for nearly every pic I make, afterwards I have to reduce "gamma" (whatever this is) to take some fog away