The Locomotive

This is 'The Locomotive' -- a diesel located in Yreka, California in

California's high country near Mt. Shasta, now assigned to hauling

summer tourists through high desert/volcano scrub land.. Your ratings

and critiques are invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly or very

critically, please submit a helpful and constructive comment; please

share your superior photographic knowledge to help improve my

photography. Thanks! Enjoy! John

great contrast and very good work ...lovely.

The contrast comes because it was a bright and sunny day at high elevation in the mountains, where the air is thin and the sun is not filtered much -- the photo was taken just after midday (see shadows).

 

The colors come from the paint on the locomotive, and are enhanced by using a low number ISO, for best reproduction, which is something I allow myself when not shooting 'street' where 'action' is the name of the game.

 

'Action' is no consideration here, so using a low numbered ISO is very helpful and the photo was taken because the paint was so appealing and contrasty. I didn't have to worry about low shutter speed causing blurs, as I do with action, so I could stop down the iris for maximum depth of field.

 

Best to you, and thanks for commenting.

 

John (Crosley)

Superb composition; the light, those colors, and a great composition add a touch of drama to an otherwise "common scene". Congratulations.

Sometimes, I could contend, the skill of the photographer is not in capturing those 'great ones' though I am happy to try to do that, but to try to turn the otherwise mundane into something fetching and most viewable.

 

I think that's the point of your comment, if I understand it.

 

The mundane becomes almost beautiful because of the 'artist's touch', and that's a very high compliment.

 

Thank you.

 

It is more important to me than seeing a 'great find' and your saying 'how wonderful you saw and photographed something great' which other photographers would have done also had they been so lucky to 'see' what I might have seen because i was 'there'.

 

You might dig about and find 'license plate guy' somewhere in my early folders -- it's another good example of adding the unusual to make the more common the more viewable.

 

Best to you, and thank you.

 

John (Crosley)