Seibu Tamagawa Line - Golden Morning
Although the past few days have been cold, it is precisely on cold days that you can capture wonderful shots.
On freezing cold mornings, steam sometimes rises from the river surface, and at other times, the area can be enveloped in morning mist. However, the difficult part about nature is that sometimes none of these things happen at all.
In my life's work of photographing the railway scenery of the Seibu Tamagawa Line, there have been many times when I went out with great enthusiasm only to end up empty-handed. At such times, I try to change my perspective and look for a different angle. It would be a waste to go home without taking any pictures at all!
This piece is a scene I was able to capture when I went out on a morning after the rain.
I tried capturing the moment when the sun rose directly in front of me, dyeing everything in sight orange.
At times like this, there is a method of shooting by overlapping the train window with the sun, but here I dared to place the sun above the train. The silhouettes of the passengers inside the train add a really nice touch.
Since the train crosses in an instant, I honestly don't have time to pay attention to the inside of the train while shooting, so I often find myself grinning after seeing the results on the camera monitor.
I am basically the type of person who does not attach protective filters to my lenses, so I sometimes have trouble when I want to bring out a lot of flare. Recent lenses have excellent coating technology and are designed so that flare and ghosting do not easily occur when shooting against the light.
Therefore, when I want to bring out flare on the screen, I intentionally attach a protective filter to capture a fantastical scene.
As for why I don't attach protective filters, I will try to post an article about that at a later date.
I suspect (though this is just my own guess) that over 90% of photography enthusiasts use protective filters, don't they?
I also used to have protective filters on all the lenses I owned, but at a certain point, I removed them all.
That is a story for another time...