I like this picture a lot. Just for fun, I took this picture and converted it to black and white and played with the levels. It looks great in B&W also.
The steamy ambiance together with such well-oiled solidy (iron, copper, brass, leather) suggests a hands-on railroad idyll a la Kerouac. Such soiled elegance in black, red and white would credibly be serviced by a man in denim. Having only been a passenger on a train, I can't tell what the tool is or does. What the image does give me as a whole, is what it must be like (I can almost smell it too) to be a railroader.
If I strained to find one fault, I'd say the photo weighs a little too much to the left, likely due to the 'very light' section in the upper right of the picture.
cool shot. i like the closeup on the hands...if you would have had the full body shot i wouldn't have liked it as much..i wish more people ( including myself) would take shots like this as opposed to full profile. the smoke is great. nice timing.
this is a very successful image for me..can feel the heat, detail is good - especially like the balance bewteen the cloth in hand and cloth in pocket all diluted by steam. 9
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