I'm still having trouble converting things in Photoshop CS2. I guess it's from a day 39 years ago when I shot color when an editor wanted B&W, and reamed me out for the loss of resolution and contrast.:lightbulb: I can accept the color and lighting shifts here: I don't like the lighting here: I guess I'm just way too much color-oriented. I've shot exclusively in color for 37 years. I think I need to read Ansel Adams again!
Thanks Kozmo! I belong to the GRVS club but a busy life has limited my involvement the past few years. As far as this locomotive is concerned it runs "OK" but I need to install the tender pick-up kit from Richmond Controls to really make it "club compatible", so for at least the near future it will not make any public appearances. Andrew
ah, many times I have seen the GRVS club at shows. always an excellent display, different locos/trains running and different unique modules.
How's this? http://www.burnhamshops.com/aah2.jpg I use Paint Shop Pro, much better than Photoshop. To get more contrast, I put a transparency layer in front of the picture to even things out. Not enough pixels left after the reduction for posting, so there is some banding in the sky. No help for it...
Hi! Here's your color picture, fixed up in PaintShopPro. I put in a but of brown in the sky, since I know that's the color that Pennsylvania sky gets when it rains... http://www.burnhamshops.com/aahcolor.jpg
Tony, I don't like them both. Sorry. They look OK on my "toolkit" monitor, but not on my calibrated Apple Cinema display monitor. Thanks for the try.
As I said: Not enough pixels left after the reduction for posting, so there is some banding in the sky. No help for it. :teeth: TB
Here's a couple of B&W prints that I scanned at fairly high resolution. They are prototype photos, but in the first one, the scanning still resulted in some banding in the sky although the contras between the cloud layers and the background mountains brings out detail that might be lost in color photos. I'm one of those that misses B&W photography. Although these photos were taken with a 35 mm camera, one could get really high resolution and contrast with large format cameras in 4 in by 4 in or larger. The first photo is a shot looking down the junction of the Y and up the track leading to the perlite mine at Socorro NM. The second is an SP work train at Tucumcari NM.
