What my town was built from
by eyesdown

Comment by ambaker:
Critique Club Review:

Color Saturation and Hue: N/A Image is monotone (black and white)

Brightness and Contrast: Both are good. The electrical box at the left of the track is approaching the limit on brightness. Any further and detail would be lost, it does distract the eye a tiny bit and if a little darker it would be a bit better. Contrast is good. Most of the shadows are holding detail. Darks are nice and inky black.

Focus and depth of field: Focus could be a little sharper, part of this is an effect of depth of field. Your shutter speed (1/2500)was well high enough to stop any action. A smaller aperature, say around f/8 would have helped. The smaller the aperature, the deeper the depth of field.

I like the leading lines, and the rail crossing, but wonder how it would have looked had you walked past the electrical box to take the photo.

Did you do any processing besides convert to B&W? Had the sky been more dramatic (what no thunderstorm at the snap of the fingers) it would have helped also. Depending on the software, you could have tried different color filters before converting to black and white. This may have helped you pump up the sky a bit.

Not a bad score for your first try. Nice image. Hope to see you in the challenges again soon. You are off to a good start.

What my town was built from
by eyesdown

Comment by tnun:
My first thought was Saskatchewan - almost the same. Very good with the title concept. (Your town and nearly everyone else's; this conjures up the whole gamut of western settlement). Everything in this photo serves its purpose. jpeters might have a point about the sky - maybe more playing with the colour channels in the bw conversion.

What my town was built from
by eyesdown

Comment by hesitant:
desat. helps makes this pic work

What my town was built from
by eyesdown

Comment by jpeters:
Interesting shot. Everything looks great below the horizon, but the sky looks kind of flat and muddy, probably an artifact of the B&W conversion. If you could add more contrast to the sky and really make those clouds stand out, you would be in good shape.

What my town was built from
by eyesdown

Comment by riversong:
Lots of leading lines! This image is perfect for b/w. (very clean railroad track btw!)