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    BW or colour?

    Shot at a steam train line in Norfolk, UK. processed in Photoshop CS6 and Silver Efex Pro. I didn't have much time to shoot it as he was just oiling the train before he drove (is that the right word?) it out of the station - with me on it!


    Tending the engine by rob ashcroft @ www.macromeister.co.uk, on Flickr

    Or perhaps the colour?


    Engine driver (colour version) by rob ashcroft @ www.macromeister.co.uk, on Flickr
    Last edited by Macro Meister; 24-09-2012, 11:53.
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    #2
    Re: BW or colour?

    That subject should ideally favour the B&W image and as I scrolled down I couldn't conceive that colour would better it .............. but it did.

    Colin
    Colin

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      #3
      Re: BW or colour?

      I am not a lover of mono photographs.
      The 2nd image needs some colour desaturation as it hits you smack in the eye.
      Are you able to keep the train in colour and keep the man in mono using PS?
      I love the train in colour and the gentleman looks better desaturated or in mono (but don't tell his wife).

      ps. Welcome to the forum.

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        #4
        Re: BW or colour?

        Originally posted by Hereford_EOS2 View Post
        The 2nd image needs some colour desaturation as it hits you smack in the eye.
        Yes, I did go a bit over the top there. here is a reworked version, with less blue.


        The engine driver - less saturation on colour by rob ashcroft @ www.macromeister.co.uk, on Flickr
        Last edited by Macro Meister; 24-09-2012, 11:54.

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          #5
          Re: BW or colour?

          Works well.

          Colin
          Colin

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            #6
            Re: BW or colour?

            Now that is very much better. Love it.

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              #7
              Re: BW or colour?

              Originally posted by Hereford_EOS2 View Post
              Now that is very much better. Love it.
              Thanks, Stephen (and Colin). I just wish I could get good shot opportunities like this every day. Here is one more that I shot a few minutes before the other one. I liked the way he is on his knees, as if worshipping some machine-God.


              engine_driver by rob ashcroft @ www.macromeister.co.uk, on Flickr
              Last edited by Macro Meister; 24-09-2012, 11:55.

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                #8
                Re: BW or colour?

                The 2nd B&W just got my vote. The "revised" colour was number 1 but it has just lost the top spot.

                David
                David

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                  #9
                  Re: BW or colour?

                  Like the b&w but the colour outshines it.
                  Di ~ Trying to take "the" photograph.
                  Di's Flickr

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                    #10
                    Re: BW or colour?

                    Unusually I really like both the B/W & Colour version (especially the reworked version of #1) you are right about opportunities like that rarely available, but I think you made the most of what you had.

                    Ray

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