Children's Railroad - Budapest

[Harold_L]

This is one picture that I would have liked to reshoot. I totally overexposed the whites - obviously I have not mastered my S500 exposure time as yet.

But I show it because it is an interesting story - a narrow gauge tourist railroad, running about 6 km in the hills above Budapest. Young people, such as the boy saluting our departing train, act as conductors and guards. Not to worry, the engineers are adults.

This picture forced me to learn about using masks in Picture Window Pro 3.5 - I actually was able to pull out some shadowing in the boy's shirt.

Harold

[Ballen Photo]

I show it because it is an interesting story - a narrow gauge tourist railroad, running about 6 km in the hills above Budapest. Young people, such as the boy saluting our departing train, act as conductors and guards. Not to worry, the engineers are adults.

Hi Harold, This looks like an interesting place. Sorry your photo didn't turn out better, but I'm thinking this may have had a lot to do with the time of day as well. Much better to shoot things like this early in the morning or much later in the evening. (can you go back?)
Does that S500 by chance have a built in UV filter? That probably would have helped in that bright sun light.
-Bruce