Pic(k) of the week 35: WE OWN THE ROAD - CAMEL ROAD part 2
During the hot and humid summer months, outdoor photography in the UAE is hard. From time to time, I do just jump in the car and set off for half a day road trip; mostly not knowing where the adventure will bring me, I'm looking for things to shoot close to the car.
Last week, during such a trip, I was on one of my favourite desert roads in the UAE, only to see that an entire series of new lighting poles had been installed. When I saw some camels on the road about 500m ahead, I stopped the car on the side and grabbed the longest lens I had.
The image below is one of a dozen frames shot as the camels came closer to me.
Image details:
- Fujifilm X-T3 with XF100-400 lens
- ISO 160, f11, 1/125s, 400mm focal length
- RAW development in Lightroom Classic
- DxO ColorEfex Pro 4 using Gradual ND filter and Color Contrast filters
It is a great illustration of the lens compression when shooting at long focal lengths such as the XF100-400. One would think these lighting poles are only a few meters apart, while they have pretty much the standard spacing.
While testing the X-T2 end of April 2016, I shot a similar image of camels coming to me at virtually the same place, but without all the modern pylons. Personally I still prefer the older image. Check out the "Camel road" the blog post here.
Remember: "A camel is a horse designed by a comitee" - Alec Issigonis
BJORN
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