Melbourne at night – Second High ISO test with the Nikon D3s

Recently I went on a photo walk around the CBD. There are few places that I haven’t visited, or photographed, by now, if I’m honest. However, there’s always the opportunity for new perspective.

This shot, for example, took me several minutes, and several tries, to get right. I liked the look of the corner, the lighting, and I wanted to capture the train in motion as well. The biggest hurdle, once I had decided on composition specifics, was get the right type of train, on the right set of tracks, and at the right moment (who wants to see carriage links).

Busy corner

This shot was one of several I took of passing trains. I was at the far end of the tracks, near Flinders Street Station (Wikipedia), where there is a gate that is always open. The gate just so happens to lead on to the tracks. I have been there before, in daytime, and I have made a couple of other good photographs of various fixtures in the area around/between the tracks. This time, however, I was there at nighttime, and I wanted to see what I could make of it.

When the first couple of trains had gone by, I had decided: this was going to be a panning photograph.

The speed

Here you can see the Flinders Walk, a very serene little strip of mostly straight line along the Yarra River (Wikipedia). The Rialto Towers (Wikipedia) can be seen in the distance. Until recently, they were, in fact, the tallest building in Melbourne, until the Eureka Tower (Wikipedia) came along and took the crown for the entire southern hemisphere.

Flinders Walk

It is also noteworthy that the Nikon D3s has, once again, really shone. Handheld photography at night is as easy as shooting during the day.

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