Take The A Train

[Daniel The Cool]

Yesterday. The song got me to try this trick.

Daniel

 

[waday]

Yesterday, all of my troubles seemed pretty far away. They're definitely here to stay, but, oh, I do believe in yesterday.

 

[Daniel The Cool]

Yesterday, all of my troubles seemed pretty far away. They're definitely here to stay, but, oh, I do believe in yesterday.

I was actually referring to the song "Take The A Train"

 

[PropilotBW]

Nice! Was this train stationary or moving?

 

[Bryston3bsst]

Yesterday. The song got me to try this trick.
Daniel

So what's the trick?

 

[Daniel The Cool]

Yesterday. The song got me to try this trick.
Daniel

So what's the trick?

The song came out in the 1930s so I thought to make it fit in I made the picture B&W to bring in some nostalgia

 

[limr]

I wouldn't consider black and white a "trick."

 

[Daniel The Cool]

I wouldn't consider black and white a "trick."

Thats not the trick. The trick was to take a picture of the oldest subway car (Built back in 1964) and relate it to the song. The Black And White edit was kinda a last minute move I wanted to add to it.

 

[gossamer88]

When was this picture taken? I take the A everyday and had not seen this model in ages.

 

[vintagesnaps]

I like it in B&W. And now I'll probably have that song stuck in my head.

I can't say it takes me back to that era, seems more modern (and looked again and see the car is from the '60s which seems to fit with the surroundings). I think there might be too much background showing for the shot to seem more vintage.

I think it's partly that post to the left, against the blackest part of the photo it seems to really stand out. I might have played around some with the vantage point and perspective to bring the viewer in more to see the train.

 

[Fred Berg]

I wouldn't consider black and white a "trick."

Thats not the trick. The trick was to take a picture of the oldest subway car (Built back in 1964) and relate it to the song. The Black And White edit was kinda a last minute move I wanted to add to it.

The real trick is to decide whether you want a photo to be colour or black and white before you take it. This should be clear from the start and never added at the last minute on a whim.

 

[Daniel The Cool]

I don't know the song and don't know the A train, so, for me this is not more than a common b&w photo.
I have tried to capture your "trick" - if you don't like it I will remove the edited photo.
Nostalgia (it is good thinking: a song from the '30s and this train from the '60s) is much more than just a black-and-white conversion, because nostalgia is memories, sentiment, mood, feelings.
Visualizing a feeling or mood is not easy, don't make things too difficult, when you have to explain a photo from A - Z this normally means it's not an okay photo.
I cut of a piece on the right (a woman standing in the back) and left, put in a zoom blur, a brownish tone and an small amount of noise.

I actually like it. Nice edit