Steam in sepia

Posted by Vinman (Essex, United Kingdom) on 29 September 2008 in Transportation and Portfolio.

This was taken at the Bluebell Railway in Sussex, where a group of volunteers and enthusiasts have restored many old steam engines and original carriages from such famous trains as the Flying Scotsman.

It was a very bright sunny day and the steam from the engine was backlit which, with the very dark green of the engine, lead to a great deal of contrast. Fortunately this was shot in RAW so I was able to retrieve a lot of detail in the highlights and shadows using curves but the extremes meant that there was a lot of colour noise as well so I ended up converting it to black and white. I added the sepia tone as it seemed to fit the image.

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