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Even The Station Has Departed
Even The Station Has Departed
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Challenge: Trains & Railroads II (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro for Canon
Location: Along Route 66 in Texas
Date: Apr 10, 2009
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/500 sec.
Galleries: Landscape, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Apr 11, 2009

 I'm currently driving all of historic Route 66. So I'm traveling down a long forgotten section of the route in Texas and stop to take a picture of an abandoned train trestle. Another person pulls up, a guy takes a few pictures, and then leaves the way he came. I was thinking to myself, who would drive several miles on a rough dirt road just to take some pictures and then leave? Wouldn't it be funny if it were a DPCer? I happened to have internet at my hotel tonight so I checked the website and sure enough, there's a train challenge. I haven't been doing DPC recently because it generally just makes me feel bad about my photography, but I had lots of train pictures from the last few days and after that coincidence I had to submit! (Note: the picture I submitted was of different site, not the one mentioned above.)

Editing: crop slightly to straighten, shadows/highlights, contrast, hue/sat/convert to B&W, resize, USM

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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
 04/20/2009 08:53:57 AM
I'm asumming thats a box car in the background, the pole on the right side of the photo is a little distracting. I thinking a higher angle to where you can see some of the tracks. JMO! Overall it's a nice shot.
Olympus E-520
Vivitar MF Zoom 19-35mm f/3.5-4.5 Series 1 for Olympus
 04/19/2009 08:34:31 PM
A little better lighting control reducing the highlights would have been a plus. Not an overly interesting image from an artistic sense, it does provide a lot of detail and color differences. A little more thought into the composition would have made for a better image. A good entry into the challenge, it falls just short of being truly effective. Perhaps a little change in viewing angle would have helped.
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
 04/17/2009 01:17:44 PM
nice photo .. without the title it would have been difficult for me to relate to this photo.
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 04/17/2009 07:09:58 AM
Nicely desolate.
Sony Alpha a6000
Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS
 04/15/2009 11:12:18 AM
If I didn't know this was a Trains & Railroads challenge, I would have no idea that I was looking at an abandoned station. This photo has no real subject to me.
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