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Woho! Well, since it's here due to my request, I'll be 1st to post a couple of photos.

My wife and new son.

My 1st interchangeable lens camera.

The tarmac by where I work.

 

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I am really liking Sinclair's AE-1 Canon pic. Nice!

Thanks. It really turned out well, I was surprised. We have the really old and rickety piano that I got for free, and when I wanted to take a photo of the Canon for a different forum, I thought, "Why not put it on the keys." I didn't notice until after I took it that I placed it near the broken ones. All in all it came out really good. It's my desktop now.

 

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Thank you. I just wish I got the plant in better focus. But that's hard to do with the camera on the ground, and the surface temp close to 100°F, and me in my slacks.

 

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Looks like fun. I'm guessing that fireplace isn't used too often if a tree is growing in it.

 

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Happy National Train Day everyone!

 

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Thanks guys. I've got a ton more photos, most taken as a bracketed set to do HDR PP on, but I haven't had much time to get into it. I've picked one "shot" and started working on it last night, but still haven't found the mix I like. I know how to get my vision, but it'll require lots of PP with layers and masks in Gimp, which I want to avoid. So I'm messing around to find a simple way so that I can quickly PP the rest to match. Expect to see a few posts asking for opinions this week.

 

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Okay, here are the 1st two shots PPed. It seems that I can't just find one 'path of workflow' to fit all my images. I ran into an issue, so it seems that I'll have treat each image different, what a pain. My wife already thinks I spend too much time on the computer, and I must be too picky since it seems to take forever for me to get something I like. Maybe it'd take less time for me to just do all the layer masks and stuff...

These are all taken at the Arizona Railway Museum. Back when he was alive, my grandfather was one of the early members of the museum. He's where I got my love of trains from. Over the years the museum has grown their collection a bit.

This is a little speeder, in fact it was my grandpa's. He taught me how to run it, the weekend before he died. Unfortunately, I was about 12 at the time, so it's been so long I'm not likely to remember anymore without any help, but it was sure fun to race up and down the track with it. I'm glad to see that they have kept it up and running.

 

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3 more done.

 

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@WereBo -Yup the inside of a caboose, as we Yanks call them.
@sandman55 -That is the beauty of HDR, you see all the color. And yes, these cabooses are still very colorful.

I still have 30+ image bracket sets to go through and work to see if I like how any turn out in PP. I actually don't like how the looking through the line of cabooses image looks, it's just off. But it was such a neat perspective that I posted it anyway. I'll keep posting more as I get them, 5 at a time.

 

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Here are 11 more from National Train Day, and I'm still not half way done on the shots I took with the intent of PP them as HDR. This thread will be very train heavy, until the rest of you blokes get out and so some shooting! :winkgrin:

This and the next are my grandfather’s private passenger car. He bought it and really fixed up the inside. Unfortunately, he never had the money to fix the undercarriage so it has long not been road worthy. They tell me that they are working on raising the funds to repaint and repair the exterior of the body.

This one was handheld so I wasn’t steady enough to get a good HDR shot. And help on aligning the images so I could try again would be great.

 

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Some very interesting looking wagons there sinclair, some rather odd-looking ones too :grin:

I've always thought you "Brits" had "weird" looking "wagons". Those "train cars" are typical "Yank" "coaches" and look very "normal" to me. :winkgrin:

 

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You aren't the only one WereBo, I'd have at least that. I'm sure I used over a 1/4 of my 64GB SD card on the trains. FSG, how could you not take a camera with you? I so want to see that train some day.

 

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I'm keeping my photos on Google+ Photos, for now. I need to start a new thread about hosting sites, unless I have already...

Pro Tip: Don't age past 23.

 

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They are looking over exposed, that or the cars' headlights shined on the camera as they went by. But I love long exposure shots at night to catch the car trails.

Canon FL 55-135mm at 55mm on a Panasonic GF5.

 

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Okay, last bunch from 2013 National Train Day, for now anyways. I've had to break it up since it's a lot more photos. These are more of my grandfather's car. They are actually trying to find more info and history of the car. It seems it's rather an enigma. If any are history buffs, feel free to try your hand at it.

I think some of the wave in this photo is lens distortion.

 

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Signage and signals

I haven't figured out how to remove the spot yet, but I haven't spent much time on it either. The sky gradent makes it difficult.

 

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Motive power

Old City of Phoenix streetcar.

This is the other end of a loco I've already posted photos of. They were letting people in teh cab to blow the horn.

This is a rechargeable steam locomotive, aka a fireless steamer. A larger stationary boiler would be used for heating and other workings on a site, and they'd tap into it's steam to fill one of these. And it could run off of the stored steam for a short time.

 

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And the remainder

Not the greatest shot due to having the camera on the wrong settings, but I like the grittyish feel it has for me.

Yet another shot of this car.

That should cover things for a while. Now that I'm done with the HDR PP, I'll have the time to look over the other photos and see if there are any worth sharing.

 

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I'm sure I could correct the hue, if I bothered doing any PP after the HDR creation, but I didn't. For the most part I like how they turned out and, for now, have decided to let them stand as is. Maybe some day I'll go back and tweak them a bit more after I get Aperture.

As for the wide angle stuff, that's why I said it, I know it's from being at 14mm. But the thing that really surprises me is that there is built-in correction for it in the camera and/or RAW files. iPhoto has the photos at 4000x3000, which is the listed res of the camera, and things look straight, when viewing the RAW and camera created JPGs. But I used the RAW files in Luminance HDR, the resulting images are 4016x3016 (or close to that, I can't remember now if it's 16 or 13), and you can really see teh wave from the wide lens.

 

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A photo I submitted for a Gizmodo photo contest. Not only didn't I win, but it didn't even make it on the results page. It only showed up in the flickr stream. Oh well, good thing I don't live off of photography.

Canon nFD 50mm f/1.8 at f/2.8 on my GF5, ISO 400, 5 photo bracket 1/13-1/2 sec, combined in Luminance HDR and The Gimp, and then monochromed and touched up in iPhoto.