Off to war

MotorPsycho · Dec 13, 2005

I was out shooting a train tressel when, amazingly enough, a train came across the bridge. While it wasn't totally unexpected, what the train was pulling, was. Just a case of being at the right place at the right time. Tell me what you think, especially about framing and color.

Thanks for looking.

woodsac · Dec 13, 2005

I like the angle :thumbup:

I drove a tracked vehicle in the Army. We rail headed them one time like you see above. If you look, you'll notice the tracks overhang each side of the car by about 6-8 inches. When you drive up on the car, the front of your track (tank) is pointed straight up in the air, then it just drops to the rail bed! Only 6 inches of play with 25 tons...can be a little nerve racking :neutral:

darin3200 · Dec 13, 2005

Great lighting, very nice shot :thumbup:

JonMikal · Dec 13, 2005

very cool capture!

just curious...how would it looked flipped horizontally?

Matty-Bass · Dec 13, 2005

sweet shot! Great angle and nice lighting

highbred3d · Dec 13, 2005

Agreed, fine lighting indeed. Thats a really cool shot... not something you see too often, around here anyway. Great shot, I keep on looking at it.

Megip · Dec 14, 2005

A beautiful shot of mankind's ugly side - clever.

craig · Dec 14, 2005

Good camera work!

Chiller · Dec 14, 2005

Excellent shot. I like the angle on this.

Eightball Walker · Dec 14, 2005

Color and depth of field are excellent!

JTHphoto · Dec 14, 2005

great shot, motor, love the angle. framing and color look good to me :thumbup:

JonK · Dec 14, 2005

Nice capture. Good lighting and contrast.

MotorPsycho · Dec 14, 2005

Thanks for the comments everyone.

JonMikal - Flipped horizontally, it wold look like tanks, being pulled uphill, or down, depending...

Seriously, if your talking about landscape vs. portrait, my first thought when i saw it was, "i need to make this train look like its pulling a never ending line of tanks" and I automatically equated that to shooting landscape oriented shots. Looking back, I should have shot it both ways, reguardless. Thats why I'm an amatuer I suppose.

Believe it or not, I shot this with the canon 18-55mm kit lens. I haven't been overly impressed with this lens, but lately, i've been putting the camera in aperature priority mode, and leaving it on f/8 for most shots. This has increased the number of "keepers" i've been taking with it dramatically.

I've got a 10-22mm canon in the mail. Did i mention I hate snail mail?