While I was waiting on this train to come, it was getting darker and darker as the thunderstorms approached. When it rounded the curve and came into view I jumped out of the car and shot a few frames, getting soaking wet in the process. The combination of rain, mist, and bright locomotive headlamps brought it together for me
a very interesting picture and one of the more captivating train pics I have seen. Not only the mood - almost surreal, but the locomotive appears compressed. Overall a striking image worthy of large wall space imho.
Could you mention a bit on how you processed it, was it first a film picture?
Wow Jack! This photograph looks so surreal! Love the mood of it as well... Was this using Ektar? Can you please tell us which lens you used? Must have been a telephoto lens right?
Wow Jack! This photograph looks so surreal! Love the mood of it as well... Was this using Ektar? Can you please tell us which lens you used? Must have been a telephoto lens right?
jamach wrote:
a very interesting picture and one of the more captivating train pics I have seen. Not only the mood - almost surreal, but the locomotive appears compressed. Overall a striking image worthy of large wall space imho.
Could you mention a bit on how you processed it, was it first a film picture?
Thanks for sharing it
Joe
Thank you Joe. Appreciate your comments. Regarding the compressed loco, you have a good eye. I was using my 80-400, somewhere around 250mm I believe. My problem was, if I had gotten closer I would have been further 'down hill', and further back the tele compression would have been even worse. I was trying to strike a medium and stay at or near the elevation where I shot it.
No, it was not a film image, this one is from my D2xs, and was pretty much 'straight up' processing. It was shot at ISO 1600, processed in Capture NX2, transferred to CS3 for a multiply layer and color noise reduction.
Avi B wrote:
Wow Jack! This photograph looks so surreal! Love the mood of it as well... Was this using Ektar? Can you please tell us which lens you used? Must have been a telephoto lens right?
Hey Avi, thanks! This one was digital, from the D2xs and 80-400 around 250mm or so.