bcp Wrote:
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> All seem a little "off" to me.
>
> I think it would be better with the train
> about 2/3 into the photo, and about 1/3 up.
Rich Murray Replied:
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> "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
> For me it's #3. A little post processing
> to slightly enhance the mountains,sky/clouds
> and the image will show the engine well while
> also showing its "turf".
>
> 2 and 4 give the subconscious impression
> that the engine is about to hit a wall.
> My 2 cents
John West Added:
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> I think the third one is a stunning image.
> You might try "leveling" the image so that
> the track is parallel to the bottom edge of
> the picture. And if you have room on the
> original to go even "wider", that might
> even be better.
The re-hash below is based on Bruce's version posted at [
ngdiscussion.net]. I rotated the image 0.5° right and "widened" it per JBWX (cropped top & bottom to 600x900, the 2:3 ratio of a 35mm slide),
* and then enhanced it just a little per Rich using Photoshop (lightened shadows 15%, darkened highlights 5% and increased contrast 10% using the "shadows/highlights" tool, then increased both brightness and contrast 10% before adding 25% "unsharp mask") to get the following
:
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Rússo
* The rotating and resizing of a copy of a copy undoubtedly blurred the image a bit, but if the original were rotated before cropping this would be minimized to give a reasonably sharp 8"x12" print.