super image, Jeff. a hard scene that is difficult to capture but you did a good job.
Ignore Steve's idea . . . if I converted this to SOLAR, it would jump off the screen - and that might be good or terribly horrible!!
regards, tom
Mar 07, 2010 at 05:35 PM
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Thanks, all!! No solarizing here but it was a very bright winter day and I decide not to bring the exposure back down. After shooting here, I searched around for a reputed train graveyard but, since the site is decidedly off-limits, I was discreet in my explorations and found nothing. It seems like a place worth going back to....
I really like this, Jeff. Great subject for photography, excellent processing, framing. I probably would have darkened it instinctively. I think you made the better choice.
simdoc1 wrote:
Thanks, all!! No solarizing here but it was a very bright winter day and I decide not to bring the exposure back down. After shooting here, I searched around for a reputed train graveyard but, since the site is decidedly off-limits, I was discreet in my explorations and found nothing. It seems like a place worth going back to....
Jeff
I like the bright treatment. It looks like it should. You show great restraint. I would have been sorely tempted to poke around the inside of the place, and I would definitely go back.
The bright cloud in the sky looks like some huge fireworks whose deafening boooom shattered all the windows in the buildings below.
I was looking for rails, and eventually found some faint diagonals in the beautiful grass leading to the buildings. Am I correct ? (or perhaps I need new glasses).
santos wrote:
The bright cloud in the sky looks like some huge fireworks whose deafening boooom shattered all the windows in the buildings below.
I was looking for rails, and eventually found some faint diagonals in the beautiful grass leading to the buildings. Am I correct ? (or perhaps I need new glasses).
santiago
You're absolutely right. There were at least eight separate pairs of rails leading into the building. I have some shots of the interior, but with all the windows blown out, they are very contrasty and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to process them.
Hey, it looks as though I could stand out there for quite some time with my slingshot and still hit some glass!
Probably not something that can work often, but your strong exposure in this particular instance really gets the job done.
-Tim
sbeme wrote:
Jeff,
for the interior shots, HDR or pseudo-HDR?
Scott
I had a similar idea. When I get one where it needs to be, I'll post. The real problem was that I was with my son and we shot mostly video with the D3s so I don't have many shots to work with.
T-bone1 wrote:
Hey, it looks as though I could stand out there for quite some time with my slingshot and still hit some glass!
Probably not something that can work often, but your strong exposure in this particular instance really gets the job done.
-Tim
Thanks, Tim! The amount of glass underfoot inside the building was unbelievable!
simdoc1 wrote:
I had a similar idea. When I get one where it needs to be, I'll post. The real problem was that I was with my son and we shot mostly video with the D3s so I don't have many shots to work with.
Jeff
One wonders what your son will be photographing withhis son one day. Many of us grew up in the age of steam locos and now even diesels are a rare breed in SA as trucks move freight more efficiently. Perhaps even air travel (as we know it) will be a thing of the past in 50 or so years time and giant airports like JFK and O'Hare will be as derelict.
Oosty wrote:
One wonders what your son will be photographing withhis son one day. Many of us grew up in the age of steam locos and now even diesels are a rare breed in SA as trucks move freight more efficiently. Perhaps even air travel (as we know it) will be a thing of the past in 50 or so years time and giant airports like JFK and O'Hare will be as derelict.
I love these thought provoking pictures.
Peter
I was thinking about it as we wandered through the debris. He was evening wondering aloud what it must have been like the the building in its heyday. The noise, the smells, the life. He is a fledging filmmaker so it was fun to remember my childhood when one travel across the country by train and when the biggest event in a small western town would be when the train came through at 5:12....
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