The Train Went By

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  MartinCrabtree

• Oct 20, 2014

I really like that. Wish I could "see" shots like that.

 

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  Trail Images

• Oct 20, 2014

Excellent idea and the resulting photo.....

 

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  Dr Croubie

• Oct 20, 2014

Wow, captured perfecty, the dashed light-lines make it.

 

• grahamp

• Oct 20, 2014

Oh yes. The strobe lights on the gates really set this off.

 

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  Ken Nadvornick

• Oct 21, 2014

That centered Do Not Enter sign is exquisite.
I think it may be time for me to just throw my cameras in the trash can...

 

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  winger

• Oct 21, 2014

Ken, I had the same thought. There's just so much to this. Look at the light in the puddles in the lower right - I swear I can feel them. And see the silver. Every part of the frame is important to the image as a whole.

 

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  Ken Nadvornick

• Oct 21, 2014

Agree Bethe.

Most think of a photograph as darkness drawn onto a sheet of lighter paper, where white is the default background. That's what we do under enlargers. I think the opposite. I've always been moved by photographs like this one that use default background darkness to define the crucial points of light, and that light to then define and focus the photograph's message. Does that make any sense?

I think both this and Thomas' earlier photograph of the fern in water accomplish that...

 

• Etabeta

• Oct 21, 2014

Simply perfect.

 

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  Thomas Bertilsson

• Oct 21, 2014

Thanks, folks. I admit I was a bit lucky with this one. When I saw the gates go up and down with lots of trains passing, I just set up right where I stood and opened the shutter at f/8 and let it go for a good long time.
Ken, I sometimes look at your photographs and admire them greatly too. Often it is my goal to have the image emerge from dark, rather than the other way around. It isn't always possible, of course. The easiest is almost always portraits. But then you have so much else to think about too...