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thanks Stardust, after all I now know where these cables go to:

That's an awesome picture.
Where was it taken? What's the exact location of those power transmission lines?
It looks like those are power station to substation power lines.
Did you take that picture? Do you have the original?

It's got to be Holland with a landscape so flat.

Shroomz II wrote:It's got to be Holland with a landscape so flat.

I assume it is somewhere in Netherlands.

stardust wrote:

hubird wrote:thanks Stardust, after all I now know where these cables go to:

As long as you're having fun gentlemen

you wanna see power lines ?? go to Japan

@ Bingo, glad you like it, it's in my neighbourhood, only a mile away, I live in Nijmegen (you can ask manu for detailed address data ).
You're a good whatcher, on the background of the picture in my earlier post, all to the left, you can neatly see the power station, at the other side of the river de Waal.
I made it a week ago, I was lucky that day as the sky was totally clear, even at the horizon, where in october you mostly see a blue-grey border in the atmosphere.
So on a few pictures of that day the sun is 'really' going down.
The blue haze comes from the 'fluorescent' setting which I experimented with, it looked good on the display
Sundown:

The masts will broken down in a few years, the power goes underground, and a new bridge will be built to the right of the powerstation, seen from the viewer.
I'd like to see these ladies on the list of monuments, unaimed yet great landscape sculptures.
I also have nice pictures taken from exactly down under the middle of a mast, upwardly.
Purely abstract it is.
the soft-red colored parts are caused by the low sun, no tricks here.
three masts, two of them connected by a bridge:

That's awesome. You need to get a professional camera!
Maybe you can crop the blurred parts at the left and right edges of the image or use a the smallest aperture your camera is capable of for the sharpest image.
But I wouldn't spend to much time in the vicinity of those lines, they transmit 100kV through those lines which creates a powerful electromagnetic field around them. Get a regular compass and see if it displays North correctly in the vicinity of those lines Not too good especially for electronics. (If you a take a small radio close to those lines you should hear a strong hum)
I like abstract images.

a good reason to keep the area free from houses
As monuments they of course won't hold the cables anymore, I bet people would like to have them as kind a guards in the neighbourhood.
Hmm, a nice city park, with the masts in it...they don't take the sun away

btw, you're right, it's blurred a bit.
But it was hard to keep the hands still.
Man, after some tries my neck felt broken.
I knew already from former visits to the place that I really had to center the picture on the middle point of the lines and had to be exactly under that point, as otherwise perspective deviations would occur.
My neck thinks 45 degree is 5 degree too much, but that may be my age

BingoTheClowno wrote:Maybe you can crop the blurred parts at the left and right edges of the image or use a the smallest aperture your camera is capable of for the sharpest image.

you're right, but at that time of the day...
Conclusion:
next time I take my tripod with me, is better for my neck also
btw, I used a Ricoh GR digital camera, extremely compact but with an optional wide angle lens, which I used indeed.
1100 euro,- rp, so some quality should be in it...it must be me if the picture isn't right

But indeed, I plan to get myself a real pro camera, I need a portrait lense up to 135 mm.
I'm spending long nights on the internet these days, to fresh up my meager knowledge about theory and technics, very nice btw, as there are plenty of great sites.
I need a mony generating yet nice activity, man, do you know how mutch a wedding photographer can ask for a job?!

What aperture did you use? What is the maximum aperture?
If you use the Automatic setting the camera will use a larger aperture to compensate for lack of light intensity. Use the manual mode next time, set the aperture above 9 and use a tripod. The image is stunning as it is though.

f2.4 - f9.
I'm not sure anymore, I guess I was in aperture priority mode.
would make it 2.4.
I know this isn't appropriate for the picture at all, but I don't have controll yet
a tripod will be best, no doubt (I edited my former post while you was posting, regarding the tripod).
thanks for your kind words.

speaking about lenses (same DoF troubles tho):

That's pretty wide
2.4 is large as an aperture and yes at that aperture the DOF shrinks. In aperture priority mode you control the aperture and the camera adjusts itself for that aperture (it might kick the ISO higher though).

BingoTheClowno wrote:That's pretty wide

photoshopped of course (negative Lens Correction)

skwawks wrote:you wanna see power lines ?? go to Japan

couldn't find any pics at first try googling, do you have some?

stardust wrote:The game is caleed free association.
Quite a common practise meanwhile.

I was experimenting a bit with the third picture of mine above.
This way it get's even more abstract:

im bored so i opened this thread...havent looked in here before, how did you people arrive at power lines? anyone care to summarize the rest of this post? what else have you covered, parking meters? furniture? i want to know.

mr. prawn, that is a very effective hijack.