The shot is pretty close to SooC. A little straightening, and I brought up the whites a little, but the biggest bit of procesing was NR as it was at iso 12800 on a crop sensor.
The original plan for the day was to spend most of the time getting shots of the re enactors both on the platforms and on the trains, but stuff got in the way and I only got a few.
The colours, especially the blues, are good aren't they. I'm happy with the way the shot turned out. Well worth waiting around in the dark at 2'c for the locos to return after the last trains of the day. The yards lights didn't get turned on until after the first loco was back and nearly completed disposal.Great finish Tim, colour one for me too
And quite frankly I'd have been disappointed if you hadn't managed to shoe horn in a locomotive
I hadn't even considered the festive red/green combination, I was more concerned about getting the exposure about right under tehyard lights.
Cheers Stan. I think the colour one, for me at least, is the winner.
Thanks Brrnd.
Don't worry about that Susie, you'll have to suffer more loco shots next year tooLove that one Tim, a real smasher to finish on, hope you're in again for next year
Its always a Celebration to see a steam train. I have a book called a Romance of Steam by Chris Woods, have you heard of this artist. This book contains over 30 pages in colour of the paintings he did, he did them all in oils. As you have such a passion for steam trains if you would like it I would like to give it to you, maybe you could pay for the postage but otherwise it would be a gift. My best friend is his wife and I saw him painting one of the trains when I first met them not realising now how very special that moment would be as he died very suddenly in 2009.Week 52 : Celebration
After spending 15 minutes editing, composing #2 below, I decided that actually I preferred the colour image, so for my final shoe-horn of 2016, I give you
A Celebration of Steam
British Railways Standard 4 - 76017 by Tim White, on Flickr
This was the one I spent time creating...
Celebrating returning home from "The War" for Christmas - A Triptych of images from The Mid Hants Railway's "Christmas Leave" event which is run annually 26-27 December.
Christmas Leave by Tim White, on Flickr
I hope to see you all here in 2017
Happy Christmas & New Year.
"Now and Again" eh? More like "Again and Again"
Thanks Emma. The colour one works best imo too. I'm getting to quite like the evening shots. Gawd knows what I'll do in the summer (though the earliest we finish on the Saturday night trips is 11:30, so it is dark... But then I have 60-75 minutes drive home, so hanging about isn't normally my plan).It had to be a train to finish Tim! I like the montage very much, giving an insight into the day, but there is something very special about that colour picture - really atmospheric and beautifully composed.
Congratulations on finishing the 52!
