Stoke on Trent Train Station

theraven · Apr 30, 2013

One I never edited for some reason, used exposure fusion in Photomatix for this one as the exposure was a bugger for the bright lights inside. Bracketed.

Stoke on Trent Train Station by Raven Photography by Jenna Goodwin, on Flickr

tirediron · Apr 30, 2013

It's a train station; what's not to like?

theraven · May 1, 2013

Fair enough!

Judobreaker · May 1, 2013

tirediron said:
It's a train station; what's not to like?

I can think of a few stations in our vicinity that are utterly boring or just outright ugly... xD

RobN185 · May 1, 2013

IMO this is a good image, with lots of interest...
1. A well exposed night sky with clouds and stars.
2. An interesting facade with a lot of geometric features, held together with a very good symmetrical composition.
3. An image of two halves (a stately top half, and an active lower half c/w well captured motion blur of the people).
4. A great range of lighting, from night sky to inside artificial lighting (all with a good WB control!)
5. Subtle light trails from the passing cars, which do not shout look at me!
6. All well processed and yes, it is a HDR!

As you may gather I really like this image, interesting and well executed.

Well done!

theraven · May 1, 2013

Thank you for that, in depth! I find I am using the exposure fusion more and more as you get the nice subtle blend without the garish tone mapping settings and with much much less noise!

theraven · May 2, 2013

Little bump

Ilovemycam · May 2, 2013

Freaky sky. Like it.

You will never get it all with exposure.

theraven · May 2, 2013

Nah, I just make the most with what I have! I like exposure fusion though because it's not HDR, it just steals the best parts!

cptkid · May 2, 2013

I love the processing, but the angle is really offputting.

You need to straighten it imo.

Lightfibre · May 3, 2013

This is a beautiful shot!
But~
I feel it'd be better if you'd up the contrast--especially if you shot this in RAW--and/or mess with the levels a bit, because it looks a little ... washed out, I guess?
Still think it's pretty, though~

EDIT
Here's what I mean.