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Light Rail in Decline: America's decaying urban infrastructure.
Light Rail in Decline: America's decaying urban infrastructure.
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Challenge: Urban Decay (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
Location: Hyannis, MA
Date: Dec 12, 2009
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Date Uploaded: Dec 13, 2009

 Pretty complex processing job, actually.

From RAW to CS3
Cropped (shot wider than required so I could keep it squared up, cropped foreground and right mostly.)
Duped BG, ran Topaz detail.
Selected for sky and tossed it from the detail layer.
Cloned out a utility pole to the right of the train.
Used hue/sat to take a lot of color out of the sky and darken it.
Separate hue/sat to give back a little of the reds and yellows.
Adamus sharpening.

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The bright part of the train is sunlight reflecting, sun's directly behind me. The image probably won't do very well, since it's not a building and it's not totally disintegrating.

We don't have a lot of urban decay on Cape Cod, obviously, but the scandalous disintegration of what used to be a very useful light rail system certainly qualifies. We have horrible traffic problems during "the season", when our population more than triples, and we don't have the roads to handle it well. Back in the day, everyone traveled to the Cape by rail and this worked well, but the system has been defunct for decades. Most of the right-of-way has been converted to bike paths, which is good as far as it goes, but...

Statistics
Place: 19 out of 90
Avg (all users): 6.1988
Avg (commenters): 6.5714
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Avg (non-participants): 6.3621
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Views during voting: 390
Votes: 171
Comments: 11
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 12/21/2009 08:03:58 AM
One of my few 10's. Great shot Robert.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D700
Nikon AF Nikkor 20mm f/2.8D
 12/20/2009 11:19:39 PM
I hoping this is at least in the Top 10!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Panasonic Lumix G VARIO 14-45mm F3.5-5.6 ASPH Mega O.I.S lens
 12/18/2009 03:20:32 PM
Very neat subject, but it seems a bit dark and underexposed. A more off center composition might make it more interesting, too.
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Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 12/17/2009 04:15:18 AM
Like your subject - just feel could have used an angle instead of head-on.
Makes it very flat.
Good colour.
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Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 12/16/2009 06:37:59 PM
Ahhh, gotta love those trains and train tracks. Nice job.
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Nikon D850
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR
 12/16/2009 08:26:19 AM
Love the sky!
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Nikon D90
Nikon AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8D
 12/15/2009 10:51:42 PM
Love the sky! a tad underexposed though...
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 55-200mm f/4.0-5.6G ED
 12/14/2009 10:37:15 PM
Good entry and processing.
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Pentax K-5
Pentax FA 31mm f/1.8 AL Limited AF
 12/14/2009 04:30:46 PM
Different subject matter than what was expected(good). But the decay seems minimal to me. No vote, I'm in this one.
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Canon EOS-80D
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 12/14/2009 01:09:21 PM
I like this one - one of the best for this challenge - 8 from me
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Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 50mm f/1.4
 12/14/2009 07:23:01 AM
nice shot, i like this underexposed choice...
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