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Published: 2005-08-15 07:38:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 917; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 92
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Here is another experimental photo. I was filing through some digital photos I had, and found these I had done from ex Santa Fe locomotive #3751. I had been thinking of finding some shots of steam locomotives and applying a transition from black and white to color, to symbolize a sort of transition through time. When I found this photo, I thought it would be perfect for testing the necessary photoshop techniques. After I had found a suitable way of creating a color to black and white transition, I showed a friend, eurai , the results and was informed not only that the photograph made a better subject than I had origionally intended, but, I had also done everything the hard way. I then went back and applied the necesary changes and turned something I never did with the intention of posting into something I feel I wanted to share with everyone. And a thanks to Derek for helping me with this one!The photo was taken at the Fullerton Railroad Days in May of 2005 at the Fullerton train station.
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Very nice, I love these Challenger class Union Pacifics, possibly even better than the Big Boys.
Lovely series of shots.
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I would have to agree with you, except this is a 3700 class Northern locomotive from the Santa Fe RR. Either way though, they are impressive pieces of machinery.
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Oops, 
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Great shot but that bit of color is quite distracting... I personally love the loco, she's a 'bute and I've seen her before!...
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I think it's a rule that if you live in Socal, you have to see it. I don't really think I can even count the number of times I've seen it!
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I've only seen it once when i went to Fullerton RR Days a few years ago...
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It came to Riverside on a yearly basis for a while, during the early Orange Blossom Festivals we would have here, but after about 5 years or so, the City stopped having an historical railroad equipment display at the train station during the festival. It was a very sad time.
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Color transition is wonderful, I think it works having not so much vivid natural colors on the left, making it blend that much easier, but the frame itself is quite impressive, very nice.
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Thank you so much, you are entirely too kind.
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On the same note I was wondering if you had tried an even subtler change. What I mean is less saturated color on the left and/or more saturated on the right to make the gradient flow even smoother. That, however, obviously drastically changes the effect of the transition. I was just wondering how much you toyed with that.
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I did nothing that was not included in the final product. I knew the effect I wanted and went for that.
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Great shot, that is one hell of a train!
Mart.
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Thank you, glad you like it.
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HOLY SHIT! I LOVE IT. I love the color effect! Its so awesome.
Just yesterdeay I found some old Delaware Lackawanna & Western steam locomotives on display at some NJ State Governemnt Building.
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I assume you had your camera? If not, I'm sending you back!
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Oh yeah, I got plenty of pics from inside the old cabs and out side. Ones a compact steamer, and the other is a more traditional american steamer with a tender. I'll have pictures posted tonight. I plan on going back to them and paying a lot more attention to closer details of them.
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Amazing angle, still, and the desaturation looks a lot better than what you'd initially showed to me.
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Thank you, you helped a lot with this one!
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wow.. awesome concept, the fade is great! The photograph itself is solid, too.
This is a really, really small nitpick, but at the very top, near the bell, a bit of the wire is cut off... I think it would've been better to have that part in. But looking back at what I just wrote, that sounds really stupid and is barely noticeable :-P So, great shot.
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I totally agree, the top of the photo is the only major problem I have with the photo myself. In my rushing to get the photos before crowds of people entered the photos I had to shoot them quick. In the origional shot, it wasnt cut off, but the horizon was crooked by about 1 degree, after the rotation I had to crop and that little bit got cut off. I didn't use another shot because the subject matter in this was too good... you have the engineer and fireman off to the right of the loco in the "old times," and the viewer looking at it in the "modern times" as it is on display. I'm thinking on digging through all my film shots of this loco to see if I have somethign better, and if I do, maybe I'll resubmit. But for now, I am happy with the result of this one. Thank you a bunch for not being afraid to say what bothers you about it, I always enjoy hearing why people like and dislike my work.
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you're very welcome 
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nice fade over to the monochrome. hehe awsome beast of a machine to photograph
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Thank you very much, These make great subjects when the people will move out of the way for a few minutes. But I'm patient, and the photos always prove the wait is worth it.
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definatly, i think its also cool how the remaining people were the tourists on the color(modern) side and on the right it has the operators looking like they are gettting ready to go to work(in the past)
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Thats exactly what I think made the shot so perfect, although I never saw it until a friend of mine pointed it out to me. That's what made me decide to redo and post it rather than set it aside as a photoshop skills test.
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