Spirit of steam

Best viewed large, on black

 

You can buy prints of this image here.

 

I know many people aren't keen on these tone-mapped pictures, so don't worry, I won't be flooding my 'stream with them. I just liked this one, and the original photo is so dark it's not fit for publishing anyway.

 

This is class 7 loco 70013 Oliver Cromwell, masquerading as 70048 "Territorial Army 1908-1958", behind 48151 on a "Help for Heroes" charter. Seen at Wigan North Western on 27th March 2010.

 

I made an HDR image by first saving 4 jpg versions of the original RAW file at different EV levels, then merging them in qtpfsgui. I tone-mapped the resulting image, also in qtpfsgui.

 

Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Mantiuk

Parameters:

Contrast Equalization factor: 0.1

Saturation Factor: 1

Detail Factor: 1

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PreGamma: 1.2

 

Done