Trainman's archives - girl and train

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Trainman's archives - girl and train

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Nathan wrote:Wind blown litter strewn station. Train and girl sit under overcast skies. Black and white contrasts. Train, smoke, steam steel and the softness of the little girl, amongst all the hardness of an industrial railway landscape!!
This has to be a contender for April's photo of the month!
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I am busy looking at what to do with this photo, effects wise, as I want to make an A2 enlargement of it. It does seem to have a tale to tell. By the way, that is Eden, my younger daughter!!
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Nathan, making an A2 enlargement would be awesome. Be sure to start with a really top quality, higest resolution scan that you can get. This is essential; otherwise garbage-in, garbage-out. Then use a good, professional quality image processing application and experiment, always keeping a copy of the original scan so you can go back if you have to.
I recommend Adobe Photoshop: it works in a wide variety of colour-spaces, has the uprated 16- and 32-bits per channel bit-depth (in addition to the lower general-quality 8-bits per channel) to ensure smoothest tonal adjustments, and has the best tools and effects, although "The Gimp" (a good free package, but it is definately not in the same league) could do the job... possibly. I have both apps on my machine and am willing to help you if you wish.
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But I thought he had used photoshop already to blank out the high visibility vest that she was wearing while posing next to a running line?

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She is visible, and wearing a vest!!
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Where was this photo taken. Is the steam Loco a 25 or 15f. The 2 electrics look like 5E's
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Taken at south end of Pretoria station with the class 15F number 3094 on the front of two class 6E1 units, alongside platform 4.
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Look carefully. You will see that they are 5E's
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OK you win. I am not into electric motive power anyway. Well spotted, and in fact this will probably be reocurring in the future, as Rovos Rail has purchased 3 class 5E1 units for his operations.
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That would be great to see. Please one of you post some pics. Thanx
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There is now a thread for discussion of Rovos Rail's class 5E1 units here. I've moved the last couple of posts there.
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