Waitin' on a train

[radiorickm]

I got an idea about a year ago, of a "train" picture I wanted to take. I searched for about a year to find a location that would yield the results I wanted. Its a sight about a hundred miles from my house. I was finally able to go and get the picture I wanted. Now, I am not sure about something.

I wanted to show a train, against a scenic back drop, 'ARCING' out of the picture.

Now since I have the picture, I found a delima. Sometimes, when I look at it, I am drawn immediately to the locomotives. But other times, my eye just follows the train right out of the picture. I don't know if it is because I wanted to see the end to complete the vision.

So, what do you guys think?

 

[Virtuosos]

You have 3 great lines leading to the edge -- the cliff slope, the tracks, and the train itself.

I find it hard to look at anything BUT the end of the train..it actually hurts my eyes to look at the begining, its a struggle lol. Im not saying thats a bad thing, I actually enjoy following the train out of the screen.

 

[rpm]

i agree with Virtuosos. i do find myself being led out of the image, i do find it hard to see the front end of the train without finding my eyes jumping back to the end. maybe you can try a re-composition? i wouldnt really know how hard that would be...from my point of view it seem like quite a journey was taken to reach there.

 

[radiorickm]

I'm thinking if the locomotives were "BIGGER" in the picture, you may not be so easily led out of the frame. It ain't easy "posing" a train, but I think I will go back and try catching it with the 70-300 lens a little ways down the track. The engines will be bigger, and the forced prespecive may help to agains the mountian. It a reason for another road trip...lol

 

[Ron Evers]

Maybe if the locomotive was not so close to the right edge of the frame. Maybe?

 

[KenC]

You could increase the size of the train by cropping. The foreground doesn't add much, nor does the top part of the sky. A tough concept to capture, but this really does it quite well. The slope of the rock behind the train really adds something.

 

[The_Traveler]

Get the train going in the same direction as the lines of the cliff.

 

[radiorickm]

the original was uncropped. I cropped this a little, although not a traditional size