This has been a most frustrating exercise. I had the concept in my head but just couldn't get the desolation I wanted from this location or any other. Dodging commuter trains didn't make it any easier.
In the end, I went with this shot and set about seeing what I could do with it to give it a desolate or unreal feeling. Honestly, the original shot is just not good enough but by colourizing it with a sort of dirty unkempt colour, I am submitting it. About two hours ago with no time to try a re-shoot, I was going to withraw my entry in Branch on the basis of "near enough is not good enough"
Post-Production Adjustment Layers: Contrast +10, Colorized, Hue 30, Sat 27, Lightness 0
Reduced to 640 pixels, mirrored, slightly over sharpened to give it an unreal look.
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