Adjusting camera position and zoom resulted in photo 9. Much
better. Perhaps a contest candidate?
Not quite. The action in this shot (9) seems to be too far from the
camera. Plus that green stakebed seemed out of place and I didn't
really care for the shadow color on the side of the RS-3. Yes, I was
being picky, but in a contest picky is the name of the game.
More scene – more details
In photo 10 the camera is zoomed out a bit more, adding scope
to the scene. I swapped a better-weathered yellow truck for the
green one next to the fuel tank (8) and positioned it to avoid
rear window reflections. The SP&S RS-3 got replaced by a BC&SJ
2-8-0 with Photoshopped smoke and the GP7 is now pushing
a set of empty log cars clearly showing two trains a work, but
10
10: Rearranged composition – better or just different?
Up the Creek - 6
MRH-Aug 2013
