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Challenge: Free Study 2008-04 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Date: Apr 25, 2008
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/50s
Galleries: Transportation
Date Uploaded: Apr 25, 2008

 Taken on a recent trip to the Ipswich Railway Workshops (aka the rail museum), as part of the back-stage tour of the steam workshops. This is a working steam engine.

This is an HDR from 3 jpg images - had to double check the rules to make sure this is still ok :). The HDR was all manual, so some painstaking alignment of the images (no tripod) followed by lots of manual layer masking, as well as dodging and burning. Adjustment layers used to desat some parts of the image, and colour adjustments to highlights and shadows. Blurred parts of the background to help bring the train out from the detailed roof.

In the end, I don't know if this is much good. I like the effect of the HDR, and I like the leading lines, but is that enough? Is it overdone? I've only edited this at low resolution, so if I ever want a print, I will have to re-edit it. Probably worth it sometime. I still have my editing steps, but it's going to be a LOT of work.

Originally called this Loco

Statistics
Place: 68 out of 468
Avg (all users): 6.2576
Avg (commenters): 7.2222
Avg (participants): 6.1020
Avg (non-participants): 6.7059
Views since voting: 1030
Views during voting: 248
Votes: 132
Comments: 11
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 05/13/2008 04:30:35 AM
A handheld HDR?!
I wouldn't have been able to tell. Fine job!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/07/2008 07:38:00 PM
Perfect lighting and detail...love this one!
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 05/07/2008 07:02:38 PM
Beautiful photo.....Like an airbrush poster....nicely done.
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 05/07/2008 06:55:52 PM
Cool looking. Almost a surrealistic view. Is this a museum piece, or a running engine?
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 05/06/2008 08:47:29 PM
A very strong composition and I love the processing on this one.......
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 05/05/2008 08:00:49 AM
Excellent use of HDR without going overboard.
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 05/04/2008 09:58:37 PM
lovely train shot
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 05/03/2008 07:55:32 AM
a lovely lovely hdr for once, very nicely done, fabulous deep rich solid colours, crisp clean lines. you did an outstanding job here, well done
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 05/02/2008 05:44:07 PM
Energy/Range/Story: 5/6/6
Composition/perspective/manner: 6/5/7
Aesthetics/Technical:7/7
Presentation: 6
Total: 6.1
Vote: 6

Remarks: -
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 04/30/2008 08:23:50 PM
im a big fan of the HDR edited photos, and i applaud those who know how to do it, im no good at it. but i cant help but feel this photo has too much of a vignette, it does a good job focusing your attention to the well saturated train, but it seems a little overwhelming.
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 04/30/2008 08:22:27 PM
That is one cool train, well done, nice PP
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