East Bay (California) Railroading

The Union Pacific main line still runs right down the street through Jack London Square in Oakland. It's a great place to get some good shots of both freight and passenger trains, and yesterday was a beautiful day for train watching.

This is the first time I have used photobucket, and it looks like I lost quite a bit of image quality when I resized these.These were all taken in RAW with a 5D2 and the originals are no where near this grainy looking. I will have to figure out what I did wrong before I try this again.

Good series! As for PB, it could be that PhotoBucket has resized? From their support:

I always click on the image to get the 100% size that I've uploaded, & then use that URL for display.

Nice series....Pbucket has a reputation for really messing with image quality unless you do some little trick. I suspect that the advice Frank has shared is the key to getting the best out of shots uploaded there.

Thanks for the tips guys, and the compliments! I will check those upload options the next time I upload. If anyone is interested, the originals look much nicer in my trains set on Flickr.

Why don't you link them from Flickr then?

I live two blocks from where you took many of these shots.

We hear all the train whistles/horns (since they have to signal frequently wherever they share a ROW with vehicles along Embarcadero).

The WP tracks used to run down our street until about 15-20 years ago, and the WP depot was right across the street from us in the heyday.

Woolburr wrote in post #10321830
Why don't you link them from Flickr then?

Originally I thought photobucket would be easier...go figure! Here is another from the same area of a cab car heading the train down the street.

Nice I very much like 2 and 4. No.2 being a big favorite, I like the clean composition, many leading lines and very pleasing color contrast.

In my humble, non-professional opinion. I would contact Amtrak and submit that as an advertising photo for them. Seeing as how you took it in RAW.