Belt, Cam, Gear, Hose, Lever, Pulley, Spring ...
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Comment by lhdelv:
This has got all the complex pieces in it.

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Comment by Pug-H:
Ah, so that's what Curves is. I don't have Photoshop, and when I've seen comments on photos (usually buildings) that mentioned they've used Curves, I thought it had something to do with correcting lens distortions made when photographing buildings!

Cat O' Nine Beans
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Comment by Natator:
Just another standard saturday night at home I see ;) Fun photo, nice idea.

Cat O' Nine Beans
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Comment by divernick:
Interesting...how about a S&M challenge huh!

Cat O' Nine Beans
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Comment by sgauria:
no sauce would have helped

Cat O' Nine Beans
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Comment by Gil P:
AWSOME....Sadomasochistic food.... quite intelligent

Cat O' Nine Beans
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Comment by Pixelstate:
Interesting!

Belt, Cam, Gear, Hose, Lever, Pulley, Spring ...
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Comment by Anachronite:
love the tone...

Old No. 11
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Comment by GeneralE:

Originally posted by dartompkins: Good idea, but he crop seems a bit tight. I think If I were going to get this tight a shot of the train, I would have been trying to get a photo of the front straight on with the smoke rising from the top. That may not have been possible, of course, but that is where my mind goes with your idea. 7.

I couldn't get right in front as they were under way, and there was a fence preventing me from getting a tighter angle. The crop is tight because the rest of the train makes it more obvious that this is a scale model -- I think it's a standard 3:2 crop, and the subject matter was supposed to be the smoke.

Originally posted by Ecce Signum: I don't get to see trains like that in the UK, nice shot, would like to see a little more smoke but meets the challenge well. Tthe foreground seems a little blown to me.

I would have liked to see more smoke too, but these are burning oil rather than coal -- this being California, I'm surprised they let them smoke at all : )

I did make a point of trying to time it so as to catch the smoke against the soot-stained trunk of the redwood tree -- otherwise the smoke would have been almost invisible. To do that, I had to lock the exposure when the train was a little further up the track where it was darker, leading to the blown-out foreground.

I thought in the UK you still had all kinds of great trains, while we in the States have allowed our railroads to decay under the pressures of profitability ...

Belt, Cam, Gear, Hose, Lever, Pulley, Spring ...
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Comment by claudia26:
why not do this in color ?? .. brings out the grease and grime