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Dilapidated Train

Postby pippin88 on Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:25 pm

Taken at the Zig Zag meet today.

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Postby Oscar on Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:54 pm

Nice shots Nick. #3 is my fav then #2. You've captured all the rust and defects really well. Cheers, Mick
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Postby Willy wombat on Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:01 pm

I quite like the feel from #1 - the numbers caught my attention and held it. You give a good overview in #4.

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Postby Oscar on Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:06 am

Nick, how did the rest of your shots turn out?
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Postby stubbsy on Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:17 am

Nick

That first image is a cracker. The others are good, but #1 is a standout. Nice framing and interesting content
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Postby pippin88 on Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:44 pm

Thanks for the comments.

#1 is my fav. One of those (few) shots that came out just how I had it in my mind.

Oscar, I haven't gone through the rest of my shots yet.

Going to run them through DxO to see what it gives me - initial one or two seemed promising.
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Postby losfp on Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:46 pm

Nice one, Nick! I like the first one, then followed by the last.

Sorry we didn't get much of a chance to chat either! You guys should have walked faster :)
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Postby sheepie on Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:56 pm

Nice detail here Nick - you have a great eye :)

Love the first one - the treatment you have given this just works! The other three are also really good, great colours, really give you an appreciation of how much work goes into restoring them. The 2nd and 4th are maybe a little oversharpened?
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Postby meicw on Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:15 pm

Interesting shots. I. too like the first. Whem I first saw your title, I thought of a Connex Hitachi set. :)

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Postby Rainey on Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:37 pm

I love train photos, why is it that I never see a bad photo of a train! :lol:
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Postby pippin88 on Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:00 pm

Thanks guys.

I've run the rest through DxO. Now just gotta look through them.
I can now see distortion in my 18-70 at 18mm, didn't think it was that bad before I saw corrected shots.
DxO appears to be a great proggie.
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Postby stubbsy on Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:39 pm

pippin88 wrote:I've run the rest through DxO. Now just gotta look through them.
I can now see distortion in my 18-70 at 18mm, didn't think it was that bad before I saw corrected shots.
DxO appears to be a great proggie.

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Postby robster on Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:46 pm

They're technically really good but I feel they're missing something. A story? some kind of ... 'draw you in' factor. Not sure how you'd do it with the train, but I really like them, but they're not really grabbing me other than technically.

hope that helps :)

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