Cheers Michael, those were my thoughts too, a more intertesting photo (albeit more of a shoe horn).
The houses are a bit of a pain tbh, far too modern. What it really needs is 1950's slum high rises.Five Structures I count in the #2. So it has to be #2 for me, like the old train behind the railings, plus the water tower,trees and house
They aren't electro mechanical (though I suppose the lamps are electric these days), the signals are purely mechanical, moved by rodding that stretches from teh signal box to the signal.
CheersWhole; like your thought processes behind the shot.
(Infra)Structure; Like both shot but I think the first is more theme fitting.
Cheers Clive.
. The crop certainly emphasises the heavy industrial engineering involved ... I like the inclusion of the bright blue sky to counterbalance the dark colours of the loco.
Thanks Dave.Routine shot is a very nice close up to show the beauty and power of this great steam trains, good angle
Cheers David. Unfortunately the only signals close to that location are ground signals, so a combination of the two wasn't on.
We run 34 evenings a year Carl, I don't do all of them, maybe 3/4s. It helps bring in the money needed to keep the railway running.Ah! that's some Routine you have Tim ... would never have guessed you had an interest in trains
It was a creative choice to crop into the headboard (like cropping into the top of peoples heads during portrait shoots).
You've got the SVR at Kidderminster, which is about 25 miles from Walsall, or the GCR at Loughborough, at about 45 miles, or this lotthose some nice trains
If you have a look on http://www.watercressline.co.uk/ you'll find details. I started going down there a bit over 10 years ago forA real ale train? My interest in railways might just skyrocketed
, and after a few years, got collared to help out, which I've been doing for 5 or 6 years now. You can't beat £2 a pint!!! combined with 40 miles of steam through the Hampshire countryside.
Ah ha nice work thanks for that! Chasewater Brownhills is just 15 minutes up the road from me, tentatively pencilling my next free weekend to take a trip up there to see if I can try my hand at snapping some steam beasts @BlueHaze will be oh-so pleased
Another convert!!!The second shot is getting more love than the first, just goes to show how hard it is to judge what people would like.
My widest lens are 17-50 on the crop and 24-70 on the FF. I'm not sure that any shallow angle through the railings would avoid the merging of the railings into one at distance.I can see what you are trying to achieve shooting through the railings but they are acting more like a barrier to the rest of the scene, maybe an UWA lens could have helped if you had one. I like the idea, it just need a tweak in angle /composition.
I was 3 pages behind on everyone's threads until I got my head down and started commenting last Friday!
Structure #2 will grow on you...
There is enough beer for everyone.
Cheers Ian
Not that day it wouldn't!Numbers, not a bad shot at all Tim. The sun will sun come out for us all though
I was refering to the fact that it's an HST 125, not to the TOPS number on the side, though I guess it also counts.
The POV is the reason for the 400mile round trip.Like the composition there Tim although the weather leaves a lot to be desired
Lots of numbers too
We run 34 evening Real Ale Trains a year, as I work on a good number of them, I get to take plenty of photos there.Routine, real ale train, now that's a habit I could get into! Nice photo as well! Real ale train mmmmmmmm
Numbers, I take it you like trains!(got my perceptive head on) Great shot but in comparison to steam there is nothing that could make a HS 125 look interesting.
Top train shot .... it's the low POV that makes it.
David, Brrnd, Allan,
It sure was... (Dedication that is).
