Trackside with Erik and Mike Vol. 5: April 5, 2004

[Anonymous]

I like No. 2. There's more color and light. No. 1 could have been a winner if it was taken closer up.

[overall]

I voted for 2 because I liked the perspective better. I thought the color was deeper and richer on 1.

George

[Mickhall]

Although it appears #2 will win this weeks contest I actually liked #1 because it shows the locomotives in a more natural uncompressed way and the colour saturation is greater. It looks as if it was shot with a normal lens as opposed to a telephoto.

[djjoe]

I saved Mike's pic and brightened it up and do like it much better now than Erik's pic (for which I voted). However, I can count only three locos up front , not four. Must still be too dark! Isn't the Warbonnet the third and last loco?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by djjoe

I saved Mike's pic and brightened it up and do like it much better now than Erik's pic (for which I voted). However, I can count only three locos up front , not four. Must still be too dark! Isn't the Warbonnet the third and last loco?

#4 is the CSX, behind the Warbonnet. (It's visible to me in both pictures, but I couldn't recognize the markings from pic 2.)

I was swamped and missed the voting ('til today). After looking at the bigger pictures, had to vote the first one. I didn't like either of the small photos and would have liked some cropping in #1.

#1's color looks great on my monitor. The grass in the foreground stood out well, but there's a bit too much dirt there for my taste. [:P] (BTW, is that an arm waving from the lead loco?)

#2 looks washed out n my monitor and not as "crisp."

[Anonymous]

I went for No. 1 precisely because of the color and the immensity of space shown. Sometimes I think that greater detail, as in No. 2, can be sacrificed for showing the hugh empty landscape that the train is traveling through. And sometimes I think that adhering to the thirds principle can be ignored. I like that balance between the deep blue and the beige of the dirt with the train dividing it. Good going for No 1. Besides I don't like washed out skies. I see too much of that all summer long in SW Ohio.

[brilondon]

I like the first photograph as it is a deeper coloured and seems more pleasing to my eyes, but I have to where glasses so it may be a mute point.

[mikeyuhas]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Halieus
#1's color looks great on my monitor. The grass in the foreground stood out well, but there's a bit too much dirt there for my taste. [:P] (BTW, is that an arm waving from the lead loco?)

Well Halieus, now that you mention it, it is an arm giving us a friendly wave! Here is a portion of the original photograph, presented at original size:

Cheers,
Mike

[Anonymous]

I voted for #1 because it has more richer colors, both pictures are super good