Sanford Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Judging by the high volume of traffic on the forums, a lot of folks must be staying in today. The streets in my touristy little corner of the world look practically deserted. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Michael Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 There are latitudes, yet please remember - "This Forum was created to allow general discussion of Photography Topics that are not better suited to any other Forum. Thank you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Thought I'd try my hand at street photography today. Surprisingly easy - none of the streets were obscured by humans. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Ingold Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 To get good photos of streets, I use really long exposures, on the order of 15 minutes, with a re-purposed solar eclipse filter. Practically everybody disappears, except for other street photographers, who remain still long enough to register. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanford Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share Posted March 14, 2020 They just closed my gym so I will be doing a lot more walking/street photography in the next few weeks at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Ingold Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 (edited) I appreciate the support for my post. I was, of course, deliberately conflating "street photography" with photography of streets. Nonetheless a 13+ stop neutral filter opens up opportunities to photograph normally crowded areas. The Chicago "Bean" is never without visitors, even well into the evening. This was a 12-13 minute exposure, and notice that the only subject visible is a photographer (lower right). The trick is to get the camera high enough that you can see spaces between people. Despite putting the tripod on a picnic table, everyone here appears on the same level. Notice that the reflection in the sculpture is from a high angle, and shows an apparently empty plaza. It is less sharp than I hoped, mainly because several people climbed on the same picnic table with their iPhones, before park docents cleared them off. Edited March 14, 2020 by Ed_Ingold 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Smith Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Without visitors the bean is much less interesting. 2 Robin Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Ingold Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 Without visitors the bean is much less interesting. That's the difference between "Street Photography" and photography of streets ;) Works for bridges too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricochetrider Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 the street around my place were deserted Friday- because every single person was at the grocery store, Costco, & the farmers markets! edit: photo for illustrative purposes only- not actual reality 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanford Posted March 16, 2020 Author Share Posted March 16, 2020 Today 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 I read that Isaac Newton Isaac (not yet Sir) was in his early 20s when the Great Plague of London hit in 1665. He was a student at Cambridge, which sent students home to continue their studies. He practiced "social distancing" by retreating to his family's estate in the countryside for over a year, where he produced some of his most famous work. First, he laid down the fundamentals of calculus, and then optics (photographic optics are mostly Newtonian geometric optics). Outside his window was the famous apple tree that helped inspire his theory of gravity, although the story of how Newton sat under the tree, was bonked on the head by an apple and suddenly understood theories of gravity and motion, is largely apocryphal. So, if you have a bored college student who is suddenly back living at home, as is the case with several of my friends, remind them of Sir Isaac. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Ingold Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 the story of how Newton sat under the tree, was bonked on the head by an apple and suddenly understood theories of gravity and motion, is largely apocryphal I don't think Schrodinger had a dead cat either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
movingfinger Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 story of how Newton sat under the tree, was bonked on the head by an apple and suddenly understood theories of gravity and motion, is largely apocryphal. But surely Einstein riding in a moving tram looking at the clock in the stationary bell tower and noticing that it was going slower than his pocket watch is the true story of how he came up with Special Relativity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. —Isaac Newton He might just be ok with the apocryphal. "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 I don't think Schrodinger had a dead cat either. No, his cat was half dead and half alive. At least until someone looked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moving On Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 I don't think Schrodinger had a dead cat either. Not for long anyway....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moving On Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Nostalgic Fun on a rainy cloistered day..... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 I find this film to be a well presented introduction to frames of reference. I like the rotating table as an effective stage for performing experiments. You can briefly see, at about 21 minutes into the film, what powers the stage, a man pushing it in circles. Modern special effects and color might be more entertaining, but I doubt that they can be any more effective in conveying the basic concepts described in this old movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supriyo Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 I read that Isaac Newton Isaac (not yet Sir) was in his early 20s when the Great Plague of London hit in 1665. He was a student at Cambridge, which sent students home to continue their studies. He practiced "social distancing" by retreating to his family's estate in the countryside for over a year, where he produced some of his most famous work. First, he laid down the fundamentals of calculus, and then optics (photographic optics are mostly Newtonian geometric optics). Outside his window was the famous apple tree that helped inspire his theory of gravity, although the story of how Newton sat under the tree, was bonked on the head by an apple and suddenly understood theories of gravity and motion, is largely apocryphal. So, if you have a bored college student who is suddenly back living at home, as is the case with several of my friends, remind them of Sir Isaac. Inspiring, but Newton’s advantage was, he didn’t have Netflix, or email. :) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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