Old Freight Station in the Middle of Yadkin Junction, Salisbury, North Carolina II

Contrary to all appearances, this was shot about twenty-three minutes after sunset.

--Lannie

Here is the original.

I actually like the original better, both as to tonality and composition, but I also wanted a bright, clear, and close shot of the old freight station--and I simply got around to shooting it too late for that.

--Lannie

often from different exposures!  i have a whole set with notes to attach the one i prefer if someone makes a good comment.  this one could be like that.  i agree that the other is better in the end.  best, j

Thanks Jamie.  This one, the brighter one, is more highly manipulated--the other not manipulated at all, except for cloning out a single tin can.

They are from the same exposure, but I assumed that you gathered that.  I took other exposures, but, with long exposures after sunset, the results of some were less than stellar.  Perhaps MLU would have helped. . . .  This lens is generally reliable, and so I assume that the problem lay with my technique.  I thought that a two-second delay would damp the vibration, but I suppose that, where long exposures are concerned, vibrations from mirror slap were the culprit.  (But then I read that MLU helps mostly  on short exposures, but short is relative. . . .)

--Lannie

Here is the attachment for Yadkin Junction in Salisbury.

--Lannie

'MLU!'  Oh well.  Mirror slap vibration dies out rapidly, so longer exposures suffer less by dint of having proportionally more light from the period without vibration.  I suspect wind.  How's your digestion?  best, j

--Lannie

I would never say "MLU," Jamie, anymore than I would say "DOF," but I certainly have no compunction about using such terms as shorthand when I write.

As for mirror slap, well, I try to shoot with a fast shutter when I can, but these shots were all made at dusk or later, and somewhere between very short and very long exposures is where these were made.

I think that I had something turned off on the AF menu.  I was getting no red blinking squares and no beeps.  (Some of the shots were in better focus at my feet than at thirty or more feet out.)  I really must read the 5D II manual one of these days. . . .

--Lannie