National railway museum York

During a recent trip to York we visited the National Railway Museum which is conveniently situated next to a Park and Ride bus stop in the city.

I assumed that I would need to use a fairly wide angle lens to take pictures of the engines, so I packed my Tamron 10-24mm super wide angle along with a Takumar 28mm f/3.5 and Takumar 55mm f/1.8 to use on my Camdiox focal reducer. As it happens I mostly used the longest of those lenses, the 55 mm Takumar with the camdiox, because the light levels were really quite low. This meant that a lot of the pictures I took were detail shots with the aperture wide open leading to a lot of defocused backgrounds. Fortunately, I quite like this style of photography, so I had quite a lot of fun and took a fair number of pictures.

Even with the extra stop that the camdiox adds, a lot of the pictures were taken at really high iso on my Sony Nex 6, but fortunately the noise levels on this camera are really well controlled, so the resulting images are not too bad.

The best of the pictures I took which have been post processed in Lightroom 5 are shown below.

Pictures from the National Railway Museum