eastwestdivide Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 (edited) Continuing the "lines leading the eye" theme from a few posts back, I suspect it works a bit better if you can get the camera down closer to the rail. The portrait format works here with the straight track, but maybe less so with curves where you need a wider sweep to get the effect of leading the eye round the curves? Didcot 1986: I like the way it leads you to the loco, but then the light-coloured top of the kid peering at the wheels takes over. Later edit: By the way, this one was a bit of lesson in post-editing: the original scan of the colour slide was cropped (losing the pylon, the light-coloured stuff to the left, and the person walking out of the frame), straightened, changed to black & white because the colours were a bit muddy, and then brightened up a bit. Here's a small version showing the original composition: Not a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but rescued it enough to post I reckon. Edited July 16, 2013 by eastwestdivide 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 I wished I had taken this photograph: http://www.railpictures.net/photo/443696 By Frank Orona. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc smith Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 (edited) I would argue that what art there is in photography is largely a matter of selection. The photographer chooses a subject, a viewpoint, and those technical aspects that control the image - choice of lens, DoF etc. She/he might add image manipulation to the mix, in the past in a darkroom, now (most likely) with a computer, but the scope for creativity is necessarily limited when compared with that of a painter. Artistic merit is, and always will be, a matter of opinion, in photography as much as any other creative medium. Chacun a son goute. Chaz To some extent Chaz, this is true, However, lighting alone is a subject in its' own right Indeed, it's a subject many study, but not so many "master" Lighting is possibly the most important factor, in both painting and photography And were it not for light - we wouldn't be able to see in the way we do.... Not all forms of manipulation are undertaken on a computer You could even go so far as to argue that any print taken from a traditional colour negative is in fact, a manipulation of that negative e.g. take your neg to a high street lab, and then another the result you get each time will vary in terms of colour balance, saturation, hue, vibrance and contrast.... Which one is actually "right" or correct though Probably none of them - Most colour labs - even professional ones used to increase reds in portraiture - they argued it made people look a bit "healthier" I knew several pro lab workers when I was training My old lecturer also used to say "Many photographers have said that Painters are the ones who have it easy" "If there's a tree in the way, or a building just where you don't want it, we have to put up with it, or change our composition, perspective and or viewpoint...." "Painters on the other hand, can just leave that element out!" Of course, this is only partly true I'd say that it is just a different art form.... To me, Photography can be just as much an artform... Just look at the works of Ansel Adams, Bill Brandt (my fave) Simon Marsden ...or many others... I'd also say, there may be many photographs that could never be considered art This is also true, but I'd add that there are many many paintings & sculptures that also fit this bill The fact that there may be many more photographic examples of this is merely attributable to the accessibility of photography itself... Sounds like I'm rabbitting on again eh? Cheers Marc EDIT: You also have to realise that I'd argue Railway Modelling is a type of art-form too... Edited July 18, 2013 by marc smith 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 (edited) The elevated section through Los Boliches, on the Málaga – Fuengirola line, April 2005. No, not just an excuse to air a holiday snapshot; I think the photo shows that it's worth taking a bit of trouble in choosing a point of view. Standing on Los Boliches station and thinking what a dull place it was, I looked along the line towards Torreblanca Hill and wondered what it might look like from up there... A circuitous half-hour climb later, I was rewarded by a nicely balanced shot of the line making its sinuous way through the concrete canyons. Not everybody's idea of art, I know, but I do have a weakness for brutalism. Edited typo. Edited July 18, 2013 by bluebottle 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Tonight at Shoreham Bridge over the River Adur Tonight at Shoreham Bridge over the River Adur Tonight at Shoreham Bridge over the River Adur (Daughter said that this one was cool!!) 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Remember when we had something called "rain"? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldgunner Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Some big event in York, or so I hear... M1050258 by Coldgunner, on Flickr DSCF5010 by Coldgunner, on Flickr 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Point blade 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 It's too hot to be out in the sun..... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 Well, I like 140,000 others I went along to the NRM A4 event. Before going I’d decided on not taking any phots but once there, couldn’t resist the temptation of pulling it of my pocket. Can’t decide which one, so have two… Porcy 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 The first is best for me, but the second does have something! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 I quite like the way the lamps are hanging, looking rather like fairy lights. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc smith Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Taken sometime back in the 80's - when I was a student...Brakevan at Barry scrapyard. A sepia toned B&W print....At the time I recall thinking "What a great shed / layout room this would be" 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 A hot and smokey Paddington 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Semaphores at Syston South 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Semaphores at Syston South Much better than mine, although I've got a better train: (Sunday diversion to St Pancras round the houses via Melton Mowbray) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRUNFOS Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Top Gear dragrace perhaps? 3...2...1...GO! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Clay Mills. Should've taken the shot a split second earlier and bent down more..... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Crossing the River Trent at Red Hill, in the days of corporate blue/grey HSTs. Ratcliffe Power Station, then under the control of the CEGB, looms behind. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
-missy- Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Classic Didcot (taken at the RMWeb members tour)... M 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 A Peak passes the site of Stapleford & Sandiacre station as it heads away from Toton with a northbound freight on the Down Goods line; December 1982. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam '43003' Tanner Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 I've moved from the railway scene on to aviation, but I still get the odd bits from time to time. Wansford, Nene Valley by Caerus Aviation, on Flickr "Black Fives" by Caerus Aviation, on Flickr Sam. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 The evening Freightliner from Nottingham passes through Toton Yard. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Last one from me for a while. A smokey Cl.58 with an northbound empty MGR at Toton. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 The piers that once carried the GWR line from Bewdley to Wooferton across the River Severn still stand ... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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