Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (photos)

[Firelock76]

Hmmmm, never thought of that.  The Starks have always been innovators, so it wouldn't surprise me.

Is Captain America around?  We could ask him!

[kgbw49]

Firelock, Tony Stark’s dad might have been using drones back then. Top secret and all, you know!

[Firelock76]

Fantastic work Matthew, as always, just like a time machine.

Well, except for that shot of the guy with the drone, they didn't have them back in the 40's!

And to second seppburgh2, I too used to "edit with the camera" using my Argus C-3, still do for that matter when I do photograph anything.  Just waiting for that riiiiiiiiight moment to pull the trigger...

[seppburgh2]

Way cool!  Back in the day use to compose in-camera (an Aragus "brick" camera) than do touch-up with in dark room.  Know what you mean with Photoshop, you did good.

[mfmalk]

http://www.losttracksoftime.com/p17739217

Follow the above link to my photos from the recent Lerro Productions photo charter at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga.

 

The night before the charter started I was out past midnight for dinner and drinks with Pete Lerro and Mitch Goldman, we had a most interesting and stimulating conversation about reality based photography verses digital manipulation and compositing via Photoshop. I am one who always tries to capture the picture as perfectly as possible with the camera, but afterwards use a RAW editor and Photoshop to its fullest for finalizing the image files as my mind's eye wants them to appear. In talking with Pete and Mitch I secretly decided to challenge myself on this charter - to shoot in JPEG only, relying heavily on my camera platform's potential to process internally with the Acros monochrome film simulation mode. It would be a risky move, not having the flexible RAW files to fall back on if I did not ace the exposure settings. In some of these photos I purposely shot at a higher then normal ISO to accentuate the conversion of noise to an important texture, with others I underexposed the shadow areas to add contrast. A 50mm prime lens was used as much as possible to yield the field of view similar to the human eye, and as a throwback to my roots of analog photography.

 

In conducting this experiment of shooting JPEGs-only I really liked the results, to my tastes this gallery looks less sterile and digital while having a lot more soul. In Photoshop I severely limited myself to the amount of post-processing, doing only minimal tweaking; mainly dodging and burning. All of this has made me think seriously about steering clear of working with RAW for the near future. Less time sitting in front of a computer means more opportunity to be in the field with a camera.

 

Your thoughts?

 

Matthew