Textured Train

[arsifferlen]

Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XS
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Focal Length: 55mm
Flash Used: No


I really like the composition of this shot which was taken on a late afternoon about 5 minutes from my home. However, I couldn't get the brightness/contrast exactly how I wanted it without blowing out the first and second car. I do like the texture effect. Any reccomendations? Thoughts??

Thanks in advance.

[LeeR]

Well, that was my thought as well: this shot is totally blown out (read overexposed) and would not be successful as a regular print. So does the texture save your composition? Mostly, it does. When I was in school we used to do a lot of alternative printing methods: gum prints, cyanotypes, etc. Most of the time it was best to use a very contrasty image since a lot of the techniques had a very limited ranges of grays. We also used to do a lot of the prints on heavily textured paper because it tended to add an element to the composition. The net results looked an awful lot like what you have here. It's not a Picasso, but it works.

[fletch]

The leading lines into the frame are nice and lead to the balance feeling in the shot. However I think the crop (is it square?) is fighting against this as it compresses the frame and doesn't allow the eye to flow as well. I would revert back to a 3:2 crop. You could lose some of the dirt in the foreground if the stuff you croped from the original needed to be cropped out.