Choo choo train...

[frex]

I went to the Station square today and took some photos from our one and only steam engine we have here in Emden.
It used to bring up to 80 wagons loaded with iron ore for the steel industrie into the Ruhr district...

[carly1979]

nice photo frex, i like the angle of this one

was this taken with wide-angled lens? looks a little bendy!!

[frex]

Took it with a Tokina 12-24...you just cannot avoid bended lines out of this angle taken with a wide angle lense!
Nice you like it

[Ask The Geezer]

Good job. Old steam engines are hard to photograph, and get right.

I think it has to do with the iron soaking up the days heat, and radiating it back as infrared, that somehow distorts the color balance in the final images. Ever notice that?

[frex]

Maybe it is the reflected heat that makes the air on the surface blurry...hmm, not too sure about my theory

[Ask The Geezer]

Not sure. I just remember, especially from the days of film, that locomotives, or other "big iron" objects, like a tank, always came out sort of different. I thought it was from the IR that your eye can't see, but was affecting the film.

Or maybe it was just the flat black paint jobs that all american locomotives seem to be painted in.

We have one here in town. Maybe I'll have to try and shoot it with digital and see what happens.

[EVPohovich]

Very nice frex, great angle. Somewhere I have a bunch of photos of the Skunk Train when we went to Mendocino, CA. last summer.

[phil-ray]

great pic

[carly1979]

Took it with a Tokina 12-24...you just cannot avoid bended lines out of this angle taken with a wide angle lense!

no, i actually quite like it!!

[nordberg]

that is a great angle...and great colors.
would have been an excellent candidate for HDR.