Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden CO
40: Baldwin Locomotove Works
golden co
Colorado & Southern – b/w recut
Some folks seems to be okay with the general idea on the previous pass but I think the execution was weak. Take 2.
Colorado & Southern
This is another of those times when I can’t make up my mind. Color or B&W?
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Brooks Locomotive Works #30: Remixed
A new process on a shot from last summer.
Suspension
POV: Jim West Riding the Rails
RAW
The other day I posted several versions of the shot below. In each case, I began with a three-shot bracket (one over-exposed and one-under-exposed) and used Photomatix to generate a High Dynamic Range (HDR) composite. Then I pulled it up in Adobe Camera Raw, made some color and balance adjustments, then used Nik’s Viveza and Color Efex suites to produce the final versions I posted. This is how most of my shots are processed these days.
However, the technology can make us lazy. When shooting, we might shoot wider than we need, knowing we can crop in Photoshop. We might not worry about getting the white balance right because Camera Raw fixes that. And so on.
I don’t want to be lazy, though, and am constantly doing what I can to improve at getting it right in the camera. How good does the shot look without any processing at all?
So I dug back into that Denver Garden Railway set and opened up the RAW shot I used for Iron Horse. Continue reading
The Denver South Park & Pacific Railroad
The DSP&PR steams past the Dallas Hotel. Sorta. Thanks again to Alan Olson and the Denver Garden Railway Society, and especially to Joe Foss. This locomotive is his, and he repainted and re-lettered the cars behind it.
Infrared w/ color
Iron Horse
Variations on a theme. This was taken yesterday at the Denver Garden Railway Society site at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden. Many thanks to Alan Olson, Joe Foss, Sam Kunugi, Paul Gunther, Tommy Stewart and Mike Harris.
This locomotive is owned and was being operated by Etzel Wilhoit.
Basic HDR Process
Denver & Rio Grande
2:45 for Golden
Brooks Locomotive Works, #30
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