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Train

Train 1 French likSorry, it has been very busy with a lot of projects and I haven’t been able to find time to post.  So, I’m back and will try to my daily postings again.  This was made yesterday in French Lick, IN.  There is a large train museum and old train depot.  A photographers paradise.  This isn’t the last you’ll be seeing from yesterday’s shoot.

 

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Morant’s Curve

Morant's Curve, The Canadian Rockies
Morant’s Curve, The Canadian Rockies

In the Canadian Rockies there is a lot to photograph.  One of the iconic places is this location called Morant’s Curve.  Railroad tracks run north to south and you can catch the trains going both directions.  Todays image is of a northbound train.  You can see this magnificent landscape and smell the diesel and hear the noise.  Pretty cool place to do train watching.

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Back To Trains

Front Of The Monon Diesel Locomotive
Front Of The Monon Diesel Locomotive

After a few Canadian picture days I decided it was time to come back to the good ole USA and to my train project. Here is another from the Noblesville, IN train yard. Shot with a Nikon d800 and 70-200mm lens I compressed the image and then used a single image tone map in NIK software to get the look I wanted.

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HDR’ed and I Don’t Care

Big Old Train Noblesville, IN
Big Old Train Noblesville, IN

Lately I have been shying away from the HDR look. This is a grungy look that many photographers use to add artistic effects to their shots. It really is used to recover shadow and highlight details in images by combining multiple exposures of different ranges in exposure together. Sometimes in can be done in such a way that the image looks very natural. Other times it kind of goes over the edge. This is one of those other times. It works though with big old locomotive and the sky and the colors.  Shot with a Nikon D800e on a tripod. 24-70mm lens. Processed in Capture One then the output was HDR’ed in Photomatic.

 

 

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Playing In Trains

Mail Car On An Old Train
Mail Car On An Old Train

I love shooting old trains and the colors and especially rust that comes with then. Lucky for me there is a train museum a short drive from where I live and I shoot there often. This is a shot of the interior of an old mail car. I understand in the old days the train would travel the tracks and grab mail bags off of hooks on the side of the railroad. These bags had mail in them and were sorted in a car like this and put in new bags to be dropped in towns where they were going along the route. Kind of cool.