Wembley SC
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Topic: Wembley SC
Posted By: limey
Subject: Wembley SC
Date Posted: 04 Oct 06 at 7:10pm
| Check out the photo from the Merlin Open at Wembley on Y & Y homepage. Great shot of the new stadium, does anyone know if it does funny stuff to the wind ??? |
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Posted By: laser4000
Date Posted: 04 Oct 06 at 10:19pm
| Dunno but I'm up there in 3 weeks for the infamous foot trophy so will report back.. |
Posted By: Guest
Date Posted: 04 Oct 06 at 10:42pm
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The wind is always funny at Wembley ... I doubt the stadium as changed that ... ------------- |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: 05 Oct 06 at 10:21am
Definitely a cool photo, at last a picture i would have as a desktop. Mr Editor are there larger screen sized pics available? |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 05 Oct 06 at 10:48am
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It is a good shot! Unfortunately only available in the size you've got. You can always get your computer to fit it to your screen. Here's a direct link to the photo: http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/photos/?s=64&PID=15422 - http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/photos/?s=64&PID=15422 |
Posted By: HannahJ
Date Posted: 05 Oct 06 at 9:25pm
I'm sure that's been edited! I was there that day and the stadium seems to have walked a LOT nearer... is this some photography trick?And it can't mess up the wind much as said wind usually comes from the south west, whereas the stadium is more north west. Come to think of it, it may have yet affected race results as we gaze at it from the middle of the lake... ------------- MIRROR 64799 "Dolphin" The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist hopes it will change; the realist adjusts the sail |
Posted By: m_liddell
Date Posted: 05 Oct 06 at 9:49pm
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It could well be the perspective compression that a longer telephoto lens gives. Long lenses make objects that are far apart look very close together. That said, I don't remember being able to see the lake from the jubilee line? |
Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 05 Oct 06 at 10:45pm
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Yeah, in the recent athens olympics i remember seeing 49ers racing with cruise ships that seemed a few metres away from them whereas in reality they were a few miles... ------------- international moth - "what what?" |
Posted By: Ian99
Date Posted: 06 Oct 06 at 12:16am
It's definately a telephoto lens job - the statium is at least a mile away - and it seemed a lot more than that walking to Wembley Park Station with a heavy sailing bag You can't see the lake from the Jubilee Line as there is a large train depot in the way, and even if that wasn't there you'd only see the top of the dam, not the water as the lake is significantly higher up than the railway (and the football stadium) Doubt it would do much to the wind, shame you can't say the same about the trees and the lorries on the North Circular! By the way, the stadium is to the south west of the lake - there is a large hill with trees on to the north west. |
Posted By: HannahJ
Date Posted: 06 Oct 06 at 8:46pm
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Woops got my cardinal points wrong. Well anyway the wind doesn't usually seem to come from that direction...
------------- MIRROR 64799 "Dolphin" The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist hopes it will change; the realist adjusts the sail |