The Washington Spirit "dinner train" slowly navigating the longest wooden bridge in the Pacific Northwest (the Wilburton Trestle). Ran out to get this on Sunday, and setup just in time to catch her. :o)
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Greetings from the Critique Club: I have been assigned your photo to critique and here are my thoughts:
Personal Reaction: When I first opened the photo, I said, “Hey, that’s the dinner train!” And sure enough it was. It goes by my house further up towards Woodinville. You have captured the weight of the locomotive and its power very well. The squiggly track adds realism; I can feel the train wobbling over them.
Composition: Good composition. Well planned rule of thirds placement for the locomotive. Good leading lines. The bush on the lower right balances the photo well.
Technicals: The focus is a little soft. I can find nothing in really in perfect focus. Color is perfect. I like the border, and I almost never like borders. But damn the high humidity of the northwest. It has robbed your blacks of real black. If I were editing it, I would use curves to darken the forest to the right just a little.
Conclusions: Good photo. Good subject. Well captured and presented. Why didn’t it score higher … not sure precisely but there were quite a few very good photos in this challenge. Maybe it was just lots of competition.
As always, it is my personal opinion. Feel free to disagree, or to PM me if you’d like further dialog.
Great light. Nice colors. I wish there was a little more focus on the tracks in the foreground. You get a definite sense of the train coming at you in this picture. Nice shot.
Those waivy rails sure make me nervous. Contrast is a little too strong overall. And, did you sharpened just a little too much to make up for the rails being oof?
Nice POV. The image looks a little hazy (dust from somewhere else perhaps?). The train engine almost appears like a toy from this angle. Overall I like it. Good luck.
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