Sleeping Giants

Picture by morpheus71_photography


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  • July 12, 2011
  • Pentax K-x
  • Pentax 18-55mm SMC/ DAL lens (at 18mm)
  • Shooting Style Tripod
  • Shoots Number
  • Exposures Number -2, 0, +2 (in 2 sets of vertical shifts)
  • Editing Software Photomatix Pro
  • File Format RAW
  • Notes It was a lot of work stitching this sequence together manually. The door frame of the engine shed was literally against my back as I set up the shot, so doing a vertical stitch of two shots was the only way i could get both the engineer's pit and all of the height of the engine in my 'visualised frame'.
stanier 8f locomotive no 8624 stanier 8f 8f black five loughborough engine yard great central railway steam engine locomotive preservation railway hdr morpheus71 photomatix 8624

4 Comments

12 Jul 22:32
morpheus71_photography

The Stanier 8F Locomotive No 8624 in the Engine Shed at Loughborough Station on the preverved Great Central Railway. The London Midland and Scottish Railway’s 8F class 2-8-0 heavy freight locomotive is a class of steam locomotive designed for hauling heavy freight. 852 were built between 1935 and 1946 (not all to LMS order), as a freight version of William Stanier’s successful Black Five, and the class saw service overseas during the Second World War. On the outbreak of the Second World War, the design was chosen to become the country’s standard freight design, reprising the role the GCR 8K Class had in the First World War. Best viewed large! Pentax K-X Pentax 18-55mm SMC/ DAL lens (at 18mm) Hoya circular polarizer tripod Two HDR images created in Photomatix Pro 3.26 – from RAW files at f/8 (-2, 0, +2 ev) in two vertically shifted sequences - then manually merged as a partial ‘vertorama’ using Photoshop 6.0 (transform tools, etc)

12 Jul 22:36
rcuello

Great effort to take this photo. The process very well.

13 Jul 10:33
e.tonucci

I like it!

13 Jul 13:40
kajzu

Nice angle. Very good process!

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