-missy- Posted August 3, 2013 Share Posted August 3, 2013 A couple from the GWS today (before the rain came)... M 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeOxon Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 (edited) Drysllwyn Castle at Didcot c.1990 Edited August 4, 2013 by MikeOxon 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 As I was waiting for my train at Exeter St Davids a westbound HST drew up on the opposite platform cheers 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_S Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Speaking purely subjectively, for myself what interests my eye is shots that see things differently to classic and/or regular composition. I particularly like it when a photographer comes up with something quite unusual, even if that challenges conventional notions of how we might normally view a subject. What I least like seeing here is images that would more accurately be described as 'picturesque' or 'nicely framed three quarter view'. To my mind those belong in some kind of thread titled 'Nice Railway Photography' or 'Picturesque Railway Photography'. I created the thread to challenge photographers to view our mutual subject through less conventional 'eyes', not normal ones. However, as I stated earlier, I am not out to be the arbiter of what is and is not 'creative' photography, so though the above is my subjective view, don't let that put anyone off submitting stuff here. Glad I'm not the only one who was thinking this..! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danemouth Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 When I belonged to a Camera Club I stopped entering competitions when some judge would dismiss a nice photo as a "record shot" preferring the arty-f@rty stuff. Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Reserved; but only between Bristol Parkway and Paddington. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 When I belonged to a Camera Club I stopped entering competitions when some judge would dismiss a nice photo as a "record shot" preferring the arty-f@rty stuff. Dave I don't know how long ago that was, Dave, but I think that the boot was on the other foot in the mid-sixties, the clubs still defending traditional photography against the avant-garde. Suffering a spot of tendinitis, I took my camera instead of my spikes along to the Sheffield and District Cross-Country Championships one year, and later showed the resulting prints to a workmate. "Oh, you haven't got a full range of tones there (on a murky afternoon in January?)" he said, "and the grain is really obvious (Kodak Tri-X pushed two or three stops). I'm afraid you'd stand no chance in a competition". A couple of weeks later, I was able to show him one of my photos in "Athletics Weekly", the half-tone printing disguising the grain and giving a sharper and brighter image than the original print (as I had realised it would). My friend courteously congratulated me on the publication and the small cheque it had brought me. "Well, you got some money for it; that's something I've never done..." My Sheffield United Harriers club mates were pleased too, as several of them figured prominently in the snap, but I was somewhat deflated when the club captain said "Bring your camera along next week, too - this is where you can be really useful !" My point is that if you want your pictures to be appreciated, you study your potential audience. If a significant number agree with the OP, then fair enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 (edited) Driving wheels from a Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-4T broad gauge loco at the NRM, pictured sometime in the late 1960s. Edit: typo. Edited August 18, 2013 by bluebottle 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danemouth Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 I don't know how long ago that was, Dave, but I think that the boot was on the other foot in the mid-sixties, the clubs still defending traditional photography against the avant-garde. Suffering a spot of tendinitis, I took my camera instead of my spikes along to the Sheffield and District Cross-Country Championships one year, and later showed the resulting prints to a workmate. "Oh, you haven't got a full range of tones there (on a murky afternoon in January?)" he said, "and the grain is really obvious (Kodak Tri-X pushed two or three stops). I'm afraid you'd stand no chance in a competition". A couple of weeks later, I was able to show him one of my photos in "Athletics Weekly", the half-tone printing disguising the grain and giving a sharper and brighter image than the original print (as I had realised it would). My friend courteously congratulated me on the publication and the small cheque it had brought me. "Well, you got some money for it; that's something I've never done..." My Sheffield United Harriers club mates were pleased too, as several of them figured prominently in the snap, but I was somewhat deflated when the club captain said "Bring your camera along next week, too - this is where you can be really useful !" My point is that if you want your pictures to be appreciated, you study your potential audience. If a significant number agree with the OP, then fair enough. I still lecture around the south Wales Camera Clubs occasionally but for the past 36 years have done AV first with two projectors and now digitally using Pictures To Exe. You are right and for that reason I try to cover a reasonably wide range in my photography - the only thing I never attempt is portraiture as it has no appeal to me. My preferred style is documentary which doesn't appeal to some in the clubs, Regards, Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Waiting..... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Tactile paving at Taunton platform 5, 14/8/2013. cheers 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Saying goodbye. No idea who they were, but as you can't see their faces, I feel I can post this one. Didn't realise I'd taken this shot until looking through the pictures I'd taken later that day. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Misty dawn. NB - Photo taken from a public level crossing 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Summer Evening at Crabley Creek by JamesWells, on Flickr 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon020 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Fresh oranges and yellows: Canon 60D 1/40 Sec; 24.0mm, f/29; ISO 100. Eridge 4th August 2013 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 6B13; 05.07 Robeston - Westerleigh Murco 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Sunshine, grass, metal and rust. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 NB - Photo taken from a public level crossingBradford on Tone? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Right railway, but on the other side of the Bristol Channel - Bertwyn Crossing, Carmarthenshire. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted August 24, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2013 I wasn't quite expecting this result but the Voyager reflects Durham Northbound canopy quite nicely 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldgunner Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Bit bored today, so decided to have a play with Photoshop elements, which arrived yesterday. M1050374 by Coldgunner, on Flickr M1050082_edited-1 by Coldgunner, on Flickr Anyone want to guess what the loco it is? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Sunset 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Llanwern - Margam steel empties slip through Newport, on the down main, behind a Cl.60. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted August 31, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2013 (edited) one from a few years back, october 2006, 37059 in newtown leading the RHTT back to shrewsbury, (i had 37069 on the rear), i took this photo with my nokia N95 mobile phone, still proud of it! and another mobile phone picture from my trusty nokia, 66406 in birch coppise, good friday 2006, the first ever DRS intermodal to work into there Edited August 31, 2013 by big jim 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Rather a harsh telephoto view, showing dipped rail joints in a depot headshunt. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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