Air 3 Tank Cars

[hank970]

My photography club has posed a scavenger-hunt challenge for the summer, and one of the twelve thematic requirements is to capture an image that's railroad related. On the way to and from town yesterday, I noticed a long train which consisted solely of tank cars sitting on a siding along I-70 in western Colorado. Multiple engines at the front of the train and one at the rear were idling and their headlights on, but the train was not moving. I hurried home, grabbed my Air 3, and headed back to the site. I launched from a nearby parking area (trespassing on railroad property is prohibited) and hovered the drone just a few feet over one of the cars to simulate standing atop it. One shot was taken using the 24mm camera and the other with the 70mm. I later cropped the photos to portrait orientation in post-processing.

Hank

 

[MA2 317]

My girlfriend in high school was in the photo club and needed a vanishing point perspective shot for a project.

A 35mm Pentax laying on a rail road tie between the rails received a good merit for the shot.

Thanks for sharing hank970.

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[GFields]

Nice photos!

 

[akdrone]

My photography club has posed a scavenger-hunt challenge for the summer, and one of the twelve thematic requirements is to capture an image that's railroad related. On the way to and from town yesterday, I noticed a long train which consisted solely of tank cars sitting on a siding along I-70 in western Colorado. Multiple engines at the front of the train and one at the rear were idling and their headlights on, but the train was not moving. I hurried home, grabbed my Air 3, and headed back to the site. I launched from a nearby parking area (trespassing on railroad property is prohibited) and hovered the drone just a few feet over one of the cars to simulate standing atop it. One shot was taken using the 24mm camera and the other with the 70mm. I later cropped the photos to portrait orientation in post-processing.

Hank

well done

 

[Nanny Ogg]

Nice images. Captured the vanishing point well. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Lets Fly]

That first shot looks great.