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Personal snapping styles tend to change over the years and, when I started to seriously take up railway photography again in 2012/2013, I took on a more arty approach focusing on colour patterns and shapes. Since then I've lapsed into a style that tries to capture the railway in its environment - at least for the most part, sometimes successfully and sometimes not.
A visit to the GCR Gala Weekend in January 2013 resulted in a set of images that were almost all 'arty' in style - again some reasonably successful and some outright failures. This one has long been a favourite so I thought I'd share it again to see whether it gets any different reaction this time around. Depending how this one goes down I might, or might not(!), share one or two others.
Original commentary
Have to own up to posting a shot of these dollies before but possibly prefer this different angle. I was keen to get the round-roofed hut in the frame which, I think, provides a bit more substance to the steam-era theme. No apologies for doing "the treatment" thing.
Taken at the GCR Gala Weekend, Loughborough.
25th January 2013
Minimalistic version of my eclipse-conjunct natal pluto self portrait from the other day. Transit moon is currently in Capricorn nearing a conjunction with transit Pluto retrograde. Collective transformation of emotions in a structured manner.
Thought I'd re-do week 51/52 making the most of the Christmas tree. No flash this time, just a good slow exposure on F.5.6 (with a macro extension tube fitted). HMM :-)
Meanwhile, back in London town and another from the Alexandra Road estate collection.
Nikon D750, Nikkor 18-35 f3.5-4.5
A good example of the compression effect a telephoto has on a scene. This was shot @ 135mm, while the previous image was shot @ 28mm; both with the same zoom lens standing about twenty feet further back (this shot) vs closer (previous image). Notice the size difference of the background mountains.
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Last year I took this B&W HDR nightshot of a frozen lake and put it up on Flickr but I never was really satisfied with the final result. So I decided to process it again. I think I'm satisfied now.
f/7.0
ISO 400
Multiple exposures: 6, 20 & 30s.
PS CS3
Photomatix
Silver efex Pro - Selenium tone
Note: Yes, this time you're right: this is an HDR shot
to do the things you want to do!
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Monday, January 1: Redux 2017--My Favorite Theme of the Year
I tried a few things (so many choices) For this photo I was inspired by these two themes.
January 9: Member's Choice--Inspired by a Song and
January 16: Just White Paper (the white paper in the bottle and parchment paper, cut with pinking sheers in the background)
B-29 Superfortress "Fifi," one of two air-worthy B-29's in the United States, lays over at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville, WI, as a rough-looking thunderstorm is about to roll in. "Fifi" was on layover in Janesville for the Commemorative Air Force Gathering of Warbirds, en route to the giant EAA spectacle in Oshkosh just a few days later. This is a multi-shot panorama showing the shelf cloud just before the thunderstorms rolled in, with high winds and a 30-minute period of very heavy rains.
***This is a re-edit of a previously-uploaded image. The re-edit is for the Flickr Your Best Shot 2019 gallery. The original can be seen here:
www.flickr.com/photos/66708125@N03/48352829912/in/datepos...
"Awe"
This image is being submitted as part of the #Flickr21 Photo Challenge, celebrating Flickr's 21st anniversary on February 10, 2025. The theme for the 21st day of the 21 day photo challenge is "Awe." I chose this image for the final theme of the #Flickr21Challenge because it fits on at least 3 different levels. First and foremost is the airplane. "Fifi" as she is known is a B-29 Superfortress built by Boeing in 1945 at the end of World War II. The B-29 was one of the largest aircraft built that served during the war and were the aircraft that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "Fifi" never served in combat, with the war having ended before she could be delivered. Today, she is based in Dallas, TX, and flies all over the United States as one of only two airworthy B-29's in the entire world. And don't let her size in this image fool you. She is BIG, dwarfing the other aircraft that were on display this day.
Second is the storm. For as powerful as the B-29 Superfortress was, it pales in comparison to the power of Mother Nature. This was a mean-looking storm because it WAS a mean storm. It rolled in fast, forcing the airshow crews to scramble to get the airplanes tied down and the public off the tarmac before it hit. As it rolled over us at the Janesville Airport, the National Weather Service would issue a severe thunderstorm warning for this storm. It would go on to produce quarter-sized hail as it rolled further east.
And third, what is NOT visible in this image. Because the storm rolled in so fast, the few of us photographers who remained until the raindrops started falling were scrambling to get our shots as the shelf cloud overtook the airport. In my desire to capture the entire shelf cloud, I switched into 3-shot bracketing, with the intent to create an HDR panorama. What I failed to do was to change my camera settings to compensate for the loss of light. So when I got home and uploaded by photos, I was horrified to see how underexposed they were. Fortunately, the final shot of the HDR sequence was bright enough for me to salvage the sequence. In a way, this was probably beneficial. When I did the panorama merge in Lightroom, I was blown away by how dark and moody it turned out. With very minor additional editing, including a monochrome conversion, this ended up being the result. The color version of this image would go on to win the Best of Show award at my local fair's photography competition (the biggest competition of it's kind in Illinois), an award that I had been chasing for exactly 20 years at that point.
2006 Summer
@Roppongi Hills
EXAKTA 66 TypeII + Schneider Xenotar 80mm f2.8 + Kodak E100GX
Redux.... the bits and pieces of Outtakes from the first session with Kinako in 2006
EXAKTA 66 with XENOTAR was one of the best combination of the Body and Lens I've ever used among the entire arsenal of Medium Format Camera, even until now. Some people here knows that I made a big decision at that time comparing EXAKTA(Xenotar) VS Hasselblad(Planar) and choose EXAKTA to go with myself.
Too bad I sold this away a couple of years ago(because of a critical malfunction).
Now I miss it more than anything else...
(Rodenstock Trinar 1:4,5/75mm + bellows)
MM contribution "Redux 2021": "Sidelit" + "Holes".
(Tops of two memorial lights; size 5,5cm)
Happy Christmas Macro Monday. My favourite theme from the list was the Color red, my favourite colour.
These cranberries are part of a candle holder display.
It's winter and nothing is going on ... delving into the files and playing with old shots. Looking forward to spring as I'm counting down the remaining days until the winter solstice. I don't look forward to the 'holidays' as much as I do the end of short periods of daylight. Most likely were blossoms from one of our fruit trees brought inside for a still-life.
The topic I'm repeating is "Defining Beauty". I love poinsettias this time of year.
Quote - Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon. Deborah Whipp
Dead Camelthorn trees in Deadvlei, shot on our Namibia photo tour a couple of years ago in rare foggy conditions. The giant Namib sand dunes are towering above the fog in the background.
Every time a publisher asks me for an image, or someone orders a fine art print, the same thing happens. I search for the file on my computer, open it in Photoshop, and think: why did I process it like this? Then I start fine tuning the image, correcting small mistakes, and I end up with a version that is much better. Every single time. The differences are never big, but big enough for me to put in the effort. Some of my older images have been through this process quite a few times, and it’s interesting to see them evolve over time.
I get great satisfaction out of reworking my images for two reasons: the images will be better afterwards, and the fact that I’m working on them again means that my vision and taste evolves. What I thought looked good three years ago, now often doesn’t look that good anymore. And that’s a great feeling.
Yesterday I opened this image to prepare it for printing, and after a short inspection, I decided to rework it. Sometimes I only the settings of some of the adjustment layers, or add a couple, but in this case I started all over again from scratch. I think the end result is much better than the previous version from 2012, even though most people won’t see the difference - especially at this size. The large print now shows much more detail in the foreground tree, and the overal contrast and color has also improved.
What I also like about this phenomenon is that in order to find the original NEF file in Lightroom, I had to visit the folder again and saw all the other images that I shot around the same time, but hadn’t processed yet. So after I had finished processing this one, I ended up processing two other images and two panos that I would otherwise have forgotten about.
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