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looks familiar ;-) I just shot a railroad area earlier today. Unfurtantely didnt get anything as cool as this shot! I like it. Focused perfectly.

 

THis is nitpicky but i would like to see the spike out of the center of the frame. Either it works fine, but i would prefer it out of the center.

good composition, interesting photo. I like it

Another cool rail track shot! I like that you see enough afore and after the squirrely spike to get an idea that this piece of metal just ain't behavin' right. I understand what J. Knight said about putting it off center, and I suppose it could have been a bit better if there had been more track above or below (not sure adding room to the right would have added much). But I think you have a good case for framing it the way you did, and the vertical presentation helps support that, I think.

Thanks Joe!

 

I agree about placing enough of the 'normal' spikes into the image. I think that is one of the important compositional elements that tends to get forgotten -- context plays a BIG role in the overall image...! As you noticed, the idea was to show a juxtaposition, nowadays more expressed in selective focusing or selective color. Of course, that sort of thing is easy to do digitally. FINDING the natural images like this requires the real work...

 

My other rail spike shot does use selective color (or more accurately, selective desaturation...) to enhance the center of attention, however with that shot, the spike really IS at the optical center of the image. (The perspective of the rail throws your brain off, and the spike doesn't LOOK as though it's centered... Again, finding or shooting this type of composition requires that extra mental 'visualization'...

 

Glad you like it!

 

- brent