Honestly, when I rented the Tokina 11-16mm, the one thing I was most excited about was photographing the Contemporary Resort. My goal was to try and incorporate the monorails gliding through the Grand Canyon Concourse.
I learned a couple of things. The monorails move through the hotel fairly fast! It's not they are actually traveling fast, but when you have a composition you want, the monorails can move out of the frame REALLY fast!
I changed my settings on my camera to Shutter priority as Aperture would not allow fast enough shutter speeds consistently. The Nikon's Auto Iso also allowed me to use a faster shutter speed and not have to worry about setting iso higher than needed or too low to get proper exposure.
I also changed to shooting on continous High Speed shutter release. It seems crazy to shoot a monorail at 5 frames per second, but believe it or not, I could only get 3-4 shots per monorail that were in the frame properly. I had to start shooting when the monorail was just entering the frame, so that I could get one just as it was nearing the edge of the frame. Many, many shots had the nose of the monorail clipped off!
In this first photo, I am standing at the North end of the Grand Canyon Concourse. I chose this place to stand because I wanted to be able to see the Mary Blair Mural as well as the monorail. This first photo took about 20 minutes to get. It was a combination of waiting for guests to clear out of the foreground and getting the monorail just right. This first photo is iso 1000, 1/180 sec, and the camera chose f4. Also, in this frame I was not shooting at Continous, but in Single mode.
I have a few different angles including the Contemporary and monorails that I will keep posting to this thread as I get them ready.
[This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
I learned a couple of things. The monorails move through the hotel fairly fast! It's not they are actually traveling fast, but when you have a composition you want, the monorails can move out of the frame REALLY fast!
I changed my settings on my camera to Shutter priority as Aperture would not allow fast enough shutter speeds consistently. The Nikon's Auto Iso also allowed me to use a faster shutter speed and not have to worry about setting iso higher than needed or too low to get proper exposure.
I also changed to shooting on continous High Speed shutter release. It seems crazy to shoot a monorail at 5 frames per second, but believe it or not, I could only get 3-4 shots per monorail that were in the frame properly. I had to start shooting when the monorail was just entering the frame, so that I could get one just as it was nearing the edge of the frame. Many, many shots had the nose of the monorail clipped off!
In this first photo, I am standing at the North end of the Grand Canyon Concourse. I chose this place to stand because I wanted to be able to see the Mary Blair Mural as well as the monorail. This first photo took about 20 minutes to get. It was a combination of waiting for guests to clear out of the foreground and getting the monorail just right. This first photo is iso 1000, 1/180 sec, and the camera chose f4. Also, in this frame I was not shooting at Continous, but in Single mode.
I have a few different angles including the Contemporary and monorails that I will keep posting to this thread as I get them ready.
[This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
