Post your Train shots!
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nikonpup
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south cle elum bunkhouse. Now the iron horse inn a bed and breakfast. http://www.ironhorseinnbb.com/
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pullmyfinger
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Here are a few different styles of train photos that I have taken this year. 
RockyNH_RIP
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I really like the 2nd one.. Nice Job!
Pat in NH
Pat in NH
For our Canadian friends
I tried to get a nice shot of the CP in Duplainville, WI last week at it's crossing with the CN, but a CP signal maintainer told me to leave. His edict was direct, but respectful. I managed to get a grab shot at a public grade crossing, but had no time to cross the tracks to the sunnier side and position the shot.
My wife is looking at the photos taken with her Nikon Coolpix P100 and we just found another CP shot I'd forgotten about, taken at Amtrak's Milwaukee Airport Station last week. We had just stepped off our evening train and a southbound CP freight showed up. She gets fine pictures with this camera.
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Carolina Photo Guy
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The wife and I recently went to Charleston, SC and we stayed at a KOA.
We found this interesting Kamping Kabin.
This is a steel bodied caboose from the L&N RR. I have been told the body color is correct, but the interior has been upgraded
to a KOA Kabin. I was somewhat surprised to see it without any traffic backed up!
Enjoy;
Pete
We found this interesting Kamping Kabin.
This is a steel bodied caboose from the L&N RR. I have been told the body color is correct, but the interior has been upgraded
to a KOA Kabin. I was somewhat surprised to see it without any traffic backed up!
Enjoy;
Pete
Hello everyone!
Boxcars, engins of all types and the stations… pure nostalgia! Trains, a great subject!
After all, they were part of the development of our sub-continent.
"…everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance…"
What could be a cool photographic journey through times, turns sometimes into a
nightmarish rapsody of imagery!!!
In the same thread, I saw some decent photographs among excellent ones, and, sorry
folks, some horrible post-production works that look more like clumsy imagery than
photography. Imagery and photography are both art forms. Pulling on sliders is not!
Right, salt is good, but the art of cooking will tell you how much is enough! If you just
discovered the power of a slider in your toolbox that was unknown to you before,
the best thing you have to do is to play with it and mature it. Then revisit you shot
and see if it survived the maturing process before even thinking of posting it!
I don't pretend to any kind of truth… but sometimes
good taste should not be left on the tracks…
Respectfully,
Boxcars, engins of all types and the stations… pure nostalgia! Trains, a great subject!
After all, they were part of the development of our sub-continent.
"…everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance…"
What could be a cool photographic journey through times, turns sometimes into a
nightmarish rapsody of imagery!!!
In the same thread, I saw some decent photographs among excellent ones, and, sorry
folks, some horrible post-production works that look more like clumsy imagery than
photography. Imagery and photography are both art forms. Pulling on sliders is not!
Right, salt is good, but the art of cooking will tell you how much is enough! If you just
discovered the power of a slider in your toolbox that was unknown to you before,
the best thing you have to do is to play with it and mature it. Then revisit you shot
and see if it survived the maturing process before even thinking of posting it!
I don't pretend to any kind of truth… but sometimes
good taste should not be left on the tracks…
Respectfully,
pullmyfinger
Senior Member
I haven't browsed through all 44 pages, and I won't until I get home from my trip (slow internet connection).
Perhaps you could elaborate by narrowing down some good examples vs. bad examples; since this is a learning photography thread.
Cheers,
Mitch
Perhaps you could elaborate by narrowing down some good examples vs. bad examples; since this is a learning photography thread.
Cheers,
Mitch
Hey Mitch,
Right! …since this is a learning photography thread.
This is exactly what I shall not do!
I can tell you techniques that could help you achieve exactly a wanted rendition,
but good taste is the basis of one's art. I have no intent to bias anyone in this.
Please, do not feel any rudeness toward yourself, but I am afraid you will have to
browse through some pages and get an idea or a feel as for why I dared ring the
bell on this thread. I went through all the pages, and it took me some time to find
the guts (after just one day on Nikonites) to boldly come forward with my post.
I sincerely hope my intentions won't be misconstrued.
Again, respectfully…
Please visit the groups:
http://nikonites.com/groups/product-...#axzz2Yku2yynD
http://nikonites.com/groups/panoramas-virtual-reality/#axzz2Yku2yynD
Right! …since this is a learning photography thread.
This is exactly what I shall not do!
I can tell you techniques that could help you achieve exactly a wanted rendition,
but good taste is the basis of one's art. I have no intent to bias anyone in this.
Please, do not feel any rudeness toward yourself, but I am afraid you will have to
browse through some pages and get an idea or a feel as for why I dared ring the
bell on this thread. I went through all the pages, and it took me some time to find
the guts (after just one day on Nikonites) to boldly come forward with my post.
I sincerely hope my intentions won't be misconstrued.
Again, respectfully…
Please visit the groups:
http://nikonites.com/groups/product-...#axzz2Yku2yynD
http://nikonites.com/groups/panoramas-virtual-reality/#axzz2Yku2yynD
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Oh, that's cool Pete! Thanks. My wife would live that sort of thing, as would I. That caboose took a long ride off L&N rails -- Atlanta is probably as close as the L&N got to Charleston.
Trains are not the best subject here in Sherbrooke these days. I don't know how many of you heard about the derailment of around 72 cars filled with heavy oil. Half of a town was completely burnt and destroyed in Lac Megantic, QC last weekend. From people that were there, it was a scene from Hell.
Here's a link to the National post: Lac-Megantic train disaster shown in before and after photos | Canada | News | National Post
Here's a link to the National post: Lac-Megantic train disaster shown in before and after photos | Canada | News | National Post
RockyNH_RIP
Senior Member
Marcel, I heard and it was a real tradgedy... I did not realize just how close that was to you...
Pat in NH
I just learned of it this afternoon -- just terrible! I suspected that the train had an insufficient number of hand brakes applied when it was stopped for the crew change, but the latest news indicates instead that there is strong evidence of a criminal act.
From what I heard and listened to from the news, there was no one on board. The train single person crew was off shift, the firemen were called to stop a fire from one of the engines and they shut the engine's fuel line to kill the fire. Apparently, after 2 hours, the air brakes ran out of air and the whole train started to roll down the hills until it crashed in Lac Megantic.
pullmyfinger
Senior Member
Hello Kodiak,
I will look through this thread upon my return, and keep in mind the points you have made.
Post processing, and achieving the right look without overdoing it, is of great interest to me.
I appreciate your post.
Cheers,
Mitch
I will look through this thread upon my return, and keep in mind the points you have made.
Post processing, and achieving the right look without overdoing it, is of great interest to me.
I appreciate your post.
Cheers,
Mitch