Nostalgic Steam Railways

Hi

Just a couple of images from a family day out overy the weekend. All taken on the South Devon Railway with D2x and my new 14mm wide angle.

I haven't photographed steam engines digitally before and rediscovered how hard it is to keep the exposure undercontrol when their is a really bright sky (Sun and High Cloud) and th eengines are in dark shadow. A degree of PP was required.

Anyway here are the images. Constructive comments very welcome as I thats the only way I am going to improve. Thanks

the desaturation of the photos really adds to the oldtime look of them. i think you did well. the 1st 2 are my favorites, but i like the 3rd one as well.

i would like to see the fully saturated (color-wise) shots if they exist, just for fun
thanks for showing these
they are very nice
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Thanks for your viewing and comments.

It is rather late in the UK, but I will add the colour images tomorrow and also an example of the out of the camera image because they almost all had the delete treatment because of the naff lighting!!

How do you saturate the color and still keep the reds? Thanks!!

perhaps to darken the sky.

maljo

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Thanks Woosa

I am soory that I cannot give a scientific answer for the saturation effect. The colour saturation is actually acheived in Apple Aperture, although I imagine that it could be done in a range of editing programes / plugins. All I haved done is play around with the Sepia and Colour Monochrome sliders until I achieve an affect that I like, takes about 10seconds!! I enjoyed them in BW too, but felt an "early colour photo thats faded a bit" look provides a slightly more interesting image.

I'd like to burn the edges or the first picture out, but haven't learnt how to do that in CS yet, still very much a beginner. I am sure that it is fairly easy but I hadn't touched a camera for 10+ years (other than pocket happy shooter!) and Photoshop was just a very expensive software program in the Apple store until a few months ago.

Steven

That first picture is a real keeper. Wish we had steamies here in the states.

cnotesride

Thankyou for your post, I'm moving to Canada over the next few years (complicated story!!) and am going to really miss the preserved steam railways that we have in the UK. Best take lots of pictures!!!!!

Steven

Thanks, that may well have helped, but I am not sure how that would fit on the 14mm. I saw a TV program today with similar lighting issues and they seemed to be using a graduated Gr / Nd filter. It wasn't very pretty at times and I think they left it on for some shots they shouldn't!!!!

Steven

and post a lot of them too!

I certainly will if you guys enjoy them!!

Post away my friend. My son and I are both rail fans and really enjoy the pictures.