It's not very often that these three items cross paths: The Moon, BNSF 1030, and a passing Union Pacific unit train of hoppers. I took this photo with my $35 Olympus 4MP digital. Despite the age, and so-called 'smaller' megapixel size, it has the handy feature of Night Shot - allowing for the equivalent of a 4-second open shutter.
The conditions outside that night were almost completely dark (short of the moon and stair lighting on the locomotive) and the camera had very little to even grab for auto-focus. The resulting shot had a lot of digital noise that thankfully went away when I converted it to a filtered grey scale and used the Despeckle feature in Photoshop Elements 6.
The cropping is wide and skinny on purpose; it seemed to be the type of border that called out to me based on what was in the shot!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
BNSF 1030 Night Shot
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Very nice! If you stare at it long enough, the "1030" on the cab starts to look like a GN logo.
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Thanks Dan! You're right about the logo. I was standing thirty feet away from that monster and couldn't see a darned thing at the time.
ReplyDeleteAww-comeonnn! That's the old day-into-night trick used by Hollywood for a hundred years! Simply stack ND filters on the lens 'till it gets "dark!"
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