Blue Railroad

This was taken in the same location as my last railroad photo except

this is facing the opposite direction. Inspired from suggestion on

the last photo, I put a blue tone on it in PS.

Wayne: Duotoning is a nice solution to wintery images. Mother nature out here tends to be rather less than colorful at this time of year. Also, I like the blue. Although the image may be just a bit off plumb in the CCW direction it's a nice composition. It sure looks like we're in Kansas alright! Look at that horizon!

The blue is very strange, but it works. In a strange way. Even the blotchy sky works. Why is that?

The original shot had some noise in it. I have a hard time understanding this one also. My camera was on a tripod but it just doesn't seem as sharp as it should be. The wind was blowing but I didn't think that it was blowing the tripod. Maybe it was.

it's very blue

Why Blue ?

Wayne,

This one works, blue, bend in the rails and all.

As for the Noise in the sky, yes, it's there and the picture would be better without it. In the regular version of Photoshop the top menu has a button called "FILTER" with a drop-down that includes "Noise," which in turn has a drop-down which includes "Despeckle" -- you might fool around with your PS to see if it has something like that.

If you get into a regular edition of PS, then you might want to follow-up on some of Stephen Lau's website suggestions for anti-noise software.

BTW I once used another PS filter, what they call a texturizer, to impose a canvas effect on the image and thereby disguise some of the Noise. A canvas texture would probably interfere with the mood in this image -- just keep the technique in mind for another time

Wayne, I really like the blue in this shot as it does give it a cold, and wintery feel to it. I think it works well. And if you use the suggestion of using the noise filter, who knows what you could do with this shot. I think I need to find some RR tracks to shoot after looking at yours. I love train tracks. They are so cool, and you did a good job with this shot. Nice work.