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>Greg writes: > A little dig at the orangish nature of some of the recent vote >getters (note: not winners) that calls for a little comment. I once >asked this forum why the orange shots did so well in vote. I suspect >there's some trip some subconscious button in out head. I also suspect >that rich color stands out compared to some of the other shot listed >along side of them. Choosing one shot for the shot of the month out of the many images on the SPORRS site isn't easy. They've already had to pass muster once to get on the page in the first place, so they're all good images. When I look(ed) at the SPORRS page to choose a shot of the month, it was often something unusual that set one shot out from the another - unusual lighting, unusual perspective, etc. The orangy light of sunset is unusual - you don't (or at least I don't) often get to see trains at that hour of the day. My pick for June was Don Bowen's backlit locomotive shot. I wish that phone pole wasn't sticking out of the coupler (Photoshop to the rescue?), but otherwise, it's a handsome shot that stands out from virtually everything else. The sunlit double stacks are similarly an interesting perspective in interesting light. One feature of both images is how "sanitized" they look. The foreground is "black," the background is sky - the surrounding environment never encroaches on the train...except for that phone pole. > Oh yeah for those of you who argued for mid day, harshly lit shots I >think the great golden hours of light early and late in the day that was >present for the orange shots speaks to why these type of shots are >generally more pleasing to the eye than the other types. Personallyt my >SP military train in CA and the BN Mac's in NE suffered because the >light had already flatten out the image to far. Frankly, that shot of the BN MACs was one of may favorites when I first visited the SPORRS page. I was particularly attracted to the shadow - your perspective and the sun angle are just right to capture the shadow showing the gap between each car. A shot later in the day would not have had the same effect. -- ____ ____IOOI__I___________ /| Evan Werkema I\ | O O O | | | Berkeley, CA I | |_|______ATSF______|_|__| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] I |_ `-'O==O ==== O==O`-' O==O"""""""""""""""""""""""O==O ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
