Knorp
Well-known member
Looking at the photos you can see Jim had to shoot the shadow site of the locomotive. Bet he had to deploy a fair amount of shadow recovery.Re: Jim's giant locomotive pic. I have to agree with Elliot that the color version provides more punch than the black and white...I think the black and white version was done a disservice by the transfer to jpeg and GetDPI's rendering of the image. I took the liberty of copying (forgive me, please, Jim) the b&w image to my Mac monitor and the image revealed all the punch (deeper blacks, better contrast) that Jim intended when he sent the image. No matter...it's a great pic either way. And I have deleted my copy of the image.
Roy Benson
Not to mention the extremely high contrast light making it very difficult to get black paint looking good.
Mind you, in the steam era manufacturers used to paint their new machines in grey tones for the photo shoot.
Kind regards.