Watercress Steam Gala

[artyman]

A few shots from today, grey skies...again!!! may try again over the weekend

 

[King of Groove]

Shame about the skies but good shots though.

 

[45689ajax]

Nice shots.

 

[mumrar]

I find that mono conversions can do well in the overcast conditions, so long as you still retain sky detail (manual exposure and histogram perving is the way). #1 and #3 are good, but the positioning/framing of #2 looks off, the open space on the left and the missing rear of the freight. #3 is a bit too burnt out but practise makes perfect etc

 

[chrispons]

First one is the best,the other two look a bit over exposed .
2 looks like there is a bit of sky to work with .
Pons

 

[artyman]

They are all more or less as they came out of the camera, not had time to play with the skies or whatever. As regards space on the left in #2, I prefer somewhere for the loco to drive into, as for clipping some van, you would need to do a distant wide shot to include the whole train to avoid clipping one or the other.