Like Steve, I ended up down at Portland’s Union Station last weekend for National Train Day. Having been to events such as this with large crowds of the public, I knew I probably wasn’t going to get any prize-winning calendar shots. I’ve recently started playing around more with HDR photography so I decided to take a few photos that might let me explore this technique. This worked well for a couple photos, such as this one of an ex-UP caboose:
I was also able to pull out a decent amount of shadow detail around the Oregon Pacific 1202:
Things didn’t go so smoothly for the 4449. The running boards of the locomotive where nice and shiny which reflected the colors of the crowd next to her. These reflections weren’t too bad in the original image, but after processing the photo and tone mapping, the reflections turned into random noticeable splotches on the side of the locomotive:
You win some, you lose some. Hopefully I’m smart enough to learn as I continue to work on technique.
I’m testing a new embedding method with the images in this post. I see a couple issues so I’ll need to get those resolved.
