Post Your Best Train Shot......

Roofjac wrote in post #18848077
My first train picture. Train took me by surprise. I have some other spots picked out for next time.

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Very nice capture !

Shot these in Pacific,Missouri. Union Pacific main from Saint Louis to Jefferson City.

Looks like a detailed model.

Thanks hammer418. I was concentrating on getting a shot of a pair of magpies working on their nest in some bushes a short distance from the tracks and all of a sudden there was the train. I didn't have time to get to a different position so ended up with way too much stuff in background. But after train passed I scouted out the spot and can see where I can set up and hopefully get better shots.

A shot I have "rediscovered" from 2017. Loco 43106 "The Flying Pig" departs Highley towards Kidderminster on the Severrn Valley Railway

An unusual viewpoint and strong composition John. Is it on the NYMR between Beck Hole and Goathland?

unclejohn wrote in post #18851558
Wood-burning steam locomotive pulls a train out of Jyväskylä, Finland. I took this photo with my first camera, Kodak Brownie II in 1951 and digitized the negative recently at 4800dpi with Epson V600 scanner.

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Very good picture!!

Welcome to POTN John!!!

ST-EOS wrote in post #18851205
An unusual viewpoint and strong composition John. Is it on the NYMR between Beck Hole and Goathland?

Thanks Peter. Yes, it was taken at Water Ark.

Thanks for both things you said!
I didn't intend to make the image that big. I have to scroll to see all of it on my computer. Any recommendation on what I should do to make my future portrait-mode photos fit on the screen?
John

unclejohn wrote in post #18851927
Thanks for both things you said!
I didn't intend to make the image that big. I have to scroll to see all of it on my computer. Any recommendation on what I should do to make my future portrait-mode photos fit on the screen?
John

Are you referring to Zoom to 100%?
Zoom to fit does fit it to the screen, zoom to 100% often roll off the screen.
I don't mind that personally.

Thanks! The way I do it, exporting from Lightroom 6, I don't see any such option. But if you, a Gold member, don't mind, perhaps I don't need to worry about it either. Have a nice day!

Thanks for your kind words Charles!
John

When exporting from LR do JPEG and something like 25-50% of original.

Carajás ore train
From the world's biggest open-pit iron mine in the Pará state of Brazil to the sea port of São Luís in the neighboring Maranhão state, every two hours they carry iron ore to be processed overseas. Each train is 330 cars and two miles long. When I took this picture in 2015, a second track was being built so that the mine can double its production.