Express Train
Full disclosure; I have no idea how I achieved this. I was actually photographing an ocean scene on the opposite side when I heard the morning train that runs through White Rock, BC thundering down the tracks behind me and with little concern or thought put into settings, I did a quick 180 pan from my tripod and fired off a few frames. I wasn’t confident anything useful transpired from that spontaneous sequence, so the RAW files sat in LR for about a year until I revisited them out of curiosity. Turns out the images were bracketed, so I was able to blend them in post to create an interesting, albeit, abstract composite. More interesting than what the intended subject was on the other side...
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4 Comments
I like the movement in this, and if I had one thing to nit-pick, it might be around cropping some of the left-hand side of the image. More train, less terrain.
Great image regardless.
Thank you.
The magic for me in this photo is the "reflections" within the side of the train. For that reason, I believe your crop is correct because it contributes to the warm sky tones and the mystery of the objects within the reflection.
Thank You