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chaz

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At rest at the end of the day.

 

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Both taken by kind permission of Snowdon Mountain Railway Staff. May 2014

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One from last weekend at the CVR... on the N7's last weekend of operation.

Image levels adjusted in Lightroom and then played around to create the B&W image in Topaz that I just downloaded a free trial version of.

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Comments welcomed

Jon

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Good luck with Topaz. It's a useful piece of software but certainly needs some care in use, particularly some of the presets which I find a little bit too intense and give an 'over-processed' end result. Did you download just the B&W piece or the full set?

 

For B&W conversions I've found Silver-Efx Pro pretty good. At the time I got it it was developed by Nik Software, but they've since been acquired by Google and I don't believe, despite their assurances at the time of the acquisition, they've done any subsequent development.

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Hi Russ, thanks... the trial covered all 12 (?) plugins but I don't see myself trying all of them and I'm yet to be convinced about its effects but I've a month to find out haven't I ;-) Silver-Efx is probably the other one I've heard of to be honest and results do look nice - so it;d be nice to try that sometime if, as you suggest, I can find it. I'll try this one first.

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Went to a combined railway and car event at the Kingdom Of Fife RPS site in Leven, www.kfrps.co.uk, on Saturday and took these (amongst others):

 

This North British 0-6-0 still needs some work

 

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Unlike this one

 

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This is a locomotive too!

 

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steve

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Some from the Foxfield Railway taken in 2007 with a reminder that this year's gala weekend is scheduled for 19th and 20th July:

 

Resident WIMBLEBURY Hunslet 3839 of 1956

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SPONDON No.2 EE 1130/1939

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Resident LEWISHAM, Bagnall 2221/27

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ASBESTOS, Hawthorn Leslie 2780 of 1909, visiting from Chasewater

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Resident HAWARDEN, Bagnall 2623/40

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Had a meeting with an 'Old Friend' today at the Severn Valley.

 

 

I found it hard to believe that the last time I travelled behind this locomotive was 33 years ago between Doncaster and King's Cross on an Up 'Hull Executive'. Sometimes the passage of time scares the living daylights out of you!

 

She seems to be wearing better than me though!

 

 

Andy.

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