Pile driver #1 by goodoleboy
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Captured 2/15/14, early morning, somewhere along the Interstate 5 Freeway, about a mile from home.
Actually, the scene was brighter than this to the naked eye, but the sun, radiating so huge through the thin clouds, overwhelmed the sensor in my American model Tizzy and made things dark. I could have brightened the image up to what I saw, but I liked this effect so much I'm presenting it this way.
And, just one of countless shots I've taken, under a wide variety of POVs and lighting conditions, of these big thumpers, which are just one type of equipment being used in the widening of the freeway. They start banging away with heavy staccato impact precisely at 7 am and continue intermittently throughout the work day. I don't know how the workers can tolerate it. The pile drivers kind of remind me of the Martian machines from the original War of the Worlds novel by H.G. Wells.
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Arrivederci.
Comments (11)
magnus073
Great work on this very cool capture, Harry. I love to be around big equipment like this.
claude19
... in practice, workers wear helmets insulation such as hi-fi but keep ears to hear the noise strength to protect the eardrums! excellent capture !
goodoleboy
Agreed, Claude, but how about the stress on the rest of the body, having to endure the battering from the incessant impact? Those dudes are really loud and heavy.
MrsRatbag
These monsters can be quite annoying to those of us who aren't actually involved with their usage; foreign sounds seem to go on endlessly and are always impossible to ignore once you've noticed them. However, it makes for a great silhouette shot with those verticals reaching up to the sky; and that bright sunlight has left you with a really pretty rainbow flare on the shot. Well done, Harry; with this lighting I think the silhouette was the most impressive way to go. Well done, you!
jocko500
do have a good effect
durleybeachbum
A great composition and perfect light!
Hendesse
Excellent back light shot. I do not envy the workers there.
prutzworks
cool shot
anmes
Great result with this capture
tennesseecowgirl
impressive machinery but it still takes them forever to finish road repairs why is that?? lol nice work
debbielove
OK!!!! Yep! That's an impressive, and very likely noisy, chunk of machinery!!! Great shot mate! Rob
anahata.c
whoosh, this is moody and mysterious and beautiful. I know the phenomenon of too-bright sun equals less light everywhere else. In audio work (which I did years back), if you have a loud 'blast', it can throw off the sound system so quickly that the sounds immediately after are nearly brought to 'zero'. It's called a "transient"---and it's why, in movies, they don't normally allow loud blasts on set: They dub them in later. Because if you allow a loud blast---say a gun filled with blanks---it can throw off the sound system so badly that it nearly shuts down other sounds. That's what the sun can do, as you note: But it resulted in a deep, moody, almost post apocalyptic scene, when the world has been wiped away and a bleak society left in its place...Beautiful hues, the tower is lonely in silhouette, and those structures on the left (pointed things) as well as the buildings next to them make this feel like a society where everyone lives in concrete barracks...Great, too, that you got it with one lone car moving. Beautiful work. (And yes, those drivers can drive someone crazy, and the effect on the body---I don't know how the workers get over the effects after weeks of doing this work...) (I'm supposed to make these brief, but as you can see...well I haven't been here in several days, so it's worth it!)