More from the tram ride. One thing I discovered during this, it sure it hard to manually focus while you are moving!

The tracks have a slight element of looking miniature I think but just imagine how much more so they would appear that way if you had access to the top of the roof line that you see!

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A rare plane sunrise as seen flying out of the Austin airport. Thankfully the young lady that had the window seat traded with me so that she could sit with her husband or boyfriend. I was like SURE! I’ll switch with you!

I was not so lucky on the return flight home, then again I did not even ask the guy if we could switch…unfortunate. I was even going to offer him some money if he said no! But now I will never know!!

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….on the DFW airport tram!

And to think this ride was free!!

I was using my tilt shift lens, trying for the ‘mini look’…I think the ones of the roads kind of gets me there but I was limited by only being a couple hundred feet from them and not very high in the air.

Now admit it, did I fake you out based on the title? That’s ok…hate me if you must :D

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Continuing our tour of the lovely Dallas airport we see an empty luggage cart, a plane taxiing and my favorite, the tram tunnel.

On the 3rd one, I can’t really remember how far away that was. It looks like several hundred feet but then again I didn’t have a chance to notice much as I was looking through the viewfinder most of the way!

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Canon 24mm TSE: Austin, Texas Capitol Building II

More photos from downtown.

Confession time, I was actually trying to get a miniature effect from the top of this parking garage but I used the wrong aperture

One of those live and learn moments. Whih is also a good lesson, set your camera settings prior to arriving on location if you know you are there to achieve a specific shot or look. Sure, you should always check your settings anyway before shooting bu for some reason that day my brain had a short circuit

These first two once again represent a good example of a normal 24mm shot and then the same shot with the tilt/shift enabled. As you can see, it makes the dome much straighter than the normal 24mm shot (some of the normal 24mm shot might have been my fault having a sharp angle thus making the convergence seem that much more prevalent).

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This was a quick grab, would have loved to have spent more time with it, perhaps trying a HDR but I was pressed for time as it was. The coloring is just a little artistic PS license.

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This was using the tilt/shift to create some distortion, notice how elongated the dome of the capitol building is compared to the last shot.

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