Choo-Choo

[Chris-T-Photography]

While I was out today I decided to stop and take some pictures of some train tracks. Interesting enough a train decided to come through at the same time. So i snapped off a few images of the train for future processing. This is one of my favs.

[Steve Paxton]

Your to first to post in the black and white section! Yay!

You took an unusual approach with this shot - I would love to see the original.

[JohnB]

It would be kind of neat to see the graffiti colored into the photo.

[Chris-T-Photography]

Yeah I tried a bunch of different processing techniques on this one. I tried to selective color the inside of the train so that the image would be grey-scale and only the trees and the sky inside the train would be color. I tried to grey-scale the image and have only the graffiti in color. This is a processing technique i've had in the back of my head for awhile now and haven't ever used it so i thought I would give it a try and really loved the minimalist look and feel it gave the image. Here's the original taken as the train was whizzing by.

Edit: I am not sure where I place this original so if I can find it this afternoon I surely will but my apologies if I can't. Cheers.

[JohnB]

Funny thing about trains is they're hard to shoot! You never know when they're going to be there and when you finally discover that they are, you either settle with a bad shot or risk a speeding ticket to get to a good location to shoot them. :)

Yours is a good photo, for sure. I like the high-contrast, sketch-like quality to it.