Saikyo crossing

As simplistic as this looks, it's a good touchup from the original shot. I was headed south to Shibuya from Shinjuku on this day to examine areas for nighttime shoots. En route to Miyashita Park, I was temporarily halted by a railroad crossing. I was desperate to bend my knees (I was very out of shape this far into the venture), so I was quite relieved. And as a Saikyo line train was coming by, it hit me to get a couple motion blur shots (at least I think it was the Saikyo. I tried to color code it on the metro map, the only other green line is the Yamanote line and that's categorized as a "lighter green").

I laid my camera down on a black box close, but not too close, to the barrier to line up the shot. Yeah, it's one singular long barrier as opposed to 2, peculiar design choice but I like it. Perhaps I was still a bit closer then I should've been cause the driver honked at me as he reached the crossing. It startled me for a second before I readjusted my camera again and got the shot. I don't blame the guy for doing that, incase he did end up hittin' me that was trouble he didn't want, I get it.

But again, even with that the image is fairly normal beyond that, so allow me to tell you what was fixed. As is the normal rule with slower shutter shots everything else was unnecessarily bright. So I had highlights, diffraction, and ofcourse the ever accursed white sky, all of which were swiftly dealt with. Because this was not an intended destination I didn't stick around after this train left to get a more solid image. But for some odd reason, sometimes very normal shots, no matter the context, seem to do well on flickr so what the hell?

Done