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Hi John. The first of these 2 for me, the lower angle is, I feel, better. THough I know I take a lot of mine from bridges as that's often the only available vantage point.
Quite like that you've included the young lady enthusiast taking a shot with her mobile phone in the second shot. Contrasts the old and the new.
 
LC2 said:
Hi John. The first of these 2 for me, the lower angle is, I feel, better. THough I know I take a lot of mine from bridges as that's often the only available vantage point.
Quite like that you've included the young lady enthusiast taking a shot with her mobile phone in the second shot. Contrasts the old and the new.
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Cheers,Tim..I quite like the first one too. There were only three or four photographers there. Behind me is a fence and woodland. One chap came along with a large video and a ladder ,climbed the fence (only 6' by the platform) dropped down into the woods going alongside the railway's 8ft. fencing and used his ladder. The mind boggles.

I thought about cloning out the lady with the phone because I like photos to be as clean as possible within reason but I think it could have been messy getting the railings back. I hadn't thought of that though,old and new. I'm about to post old and new. Old signal box and the Hitachi 800/801.
 
Thanks,Michael. I'm a big fan of low angle shots for trains,makes a real difference.
 
Couple of nice shots - I prefer No2. Maybe No1 with a letterbox crop to remove the bridge.
 
-Oy- said:
Couple of nice shots - I prefer No2. Maybe No1 with a letterbox crop to remove the bridge.
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Cheers, Dave. I've just cropped one of the spare shots which I hadn't edited, to eliminate the bridge and it looks good, much better I can now see how much the bridge dominated and it now looks ugly.I'll now crop the other one.,the keeper. Infact .After posting the amended version I didn't like the lampost on the left so that's gone too.Photo 2.

Much appreciated advice - thanks.(y)

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