You always seem to see the best photo opportunities when you're cruising down the highway with no way of stopping. Would make the kid grab the wheel and let me shoot but don't have any kids. Been trying to remember to bring the camera along on the occasions that I'm riding shotgun rather than driving.
We went for a jaunt down to Frankfort, Kentucky today, which is about an hour of highway driving each way, enough for some shotgun shooting. Since coming across Andrew Bush's Vector Portraits project, where he strapped a medium format camera to his car to shoot portraits on the highway, I've been itching to do a little high speed street photography.
Tried it a few times before, but today was the first time with a lens longer than 70mm. That helped, but it's still more challenging than your pedestrian variety street photography. Not fully satisfied with today's results but they're still fun, don't know of any other place that you can catch people unawares quite like this.
Got back to Louisville just in time for Friday evening rush hour on the Watterson Expressway, which is its own special sort of scene. In the wintertime it comes with an added bonus of driving into the setting sun if you're headed west. The next two exits from here are permajams if there's more than three vehicles on the highway.
Louisville drivers and birds may fly but those MD-11s sure as hell ain't. Month and a half ago, a UPS MD-11lost an engine on takeoff and crashed just south of the runway here, killing 12 and injuring 23. Few days later, UPS and later the FAA grounded the rest of the trijets and we've had a flock of them roosting out at the edge of the airport since. Think this has just about run out of road, who else shoots from a moving vehicle on occasion?
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After reading this post, I know one thing - I hire my wife to drive a car full-time with the possibility of overtime 🤣. I have to try such a photo with a 24-200 lens. It can be interesting! Best regards.
There ya go! 🤣 About the only time I get to do this is when my partner is driving us somewhere. Can't wait to see the results of that, was using a 70-300 for these. It's just such a different, interesting perspective to shoot from.
Perspective, by the way, but I've missed out on the most beautiful photographic moments with beautiful light in my life precisely because I was driving in places where it was impossible to stop 😭 thanks for motivating me to put my wife behind the wheel permanently. Just don't tell her 🤣 you should also give the wheel to your partner permanently 😅
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My pleasure, my lips are sealed! Just don't forget to clean the windows first :D
My windows get dirty again shortly after cleaning, so it doesn’t really make sense, but this kind of dirt on the glass can actually look interesting in photos as artistic decorative elements 🤣
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This kind of hunt haha… I love doing it. And I liked the photos. The one with the planes and the birds is cool!
Amidst stormy traffic, a moment for photography.
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