A railcar parked(?) on a section of track not far from where I live. I almost walked by this railcar on the way back to my car, after shooting a more eye-catching caboose in bright orange/yellow. Glad I went a little further down the line. Shot handheld with ambient light on a very soggy Monday morning :-)
pp: RAW-TIFF conversion, clone out sensor dust, brightness/contrast, saturation, resize, usm, sharpen, save for web
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Hi Susan, I got another photo from you for the Critique Club, it's great! :)
I have to say that I voted your photo a 7, because I liked it then, and as I come back the this I confirm that you did a very good job :-)
Composition
GREAT use of converging lines. It's really very well placed, and the tracks add a very interesting touch. As said below, it could have just a bit more breathing space to the right, but your intention was to focus on the train, so you succeeded.
Processing
The selective desaturation is very well done, leaving just the blues and the rust. It gives a colder look to the image, and still you can see some colour in it.
Contrast is great, and you can feel the texture through the photo.
One thing that you could have done different is the aperture. Shooting at f/22 gets really soft, especially for a UWA lens.
Then, just leaving more space could have gotten you a higher score, but that's just guessing :)
Congratulations on a very strong photo!
If you have any questions feel free to contact me.
Regards,
Joao
Pretty good, but I'd like the rails and their vanishing point to be more prominent, probably by taking the photo from a point to the right and farther back.
Fantastic contrast between color and greys. Great converging lines, I just feel the picture would be perfect if vanishing point wasn't so close to the edge.
8*
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