Golden train, a photo from Maharashtra, West

Photographer's Note

Indian railways are the biggest in the World - at least in number of passengers travelling in a day. You can get by train everywhere in India, and for sure all travellers in this country share the same memories of countless hours spent in coaches, with hundreds of people around them, trying to sell something or just to talk with foreigners.
In travel there are times that we are tired, angry and so on. But there are also nice moments, like this one, when golden sun creates incredible light effect.

Technical Note: No sepia convert was done. Colours are natural, I have only resized and sharpened this picture.

frank69, tjanze, rozy975, bantonbuju, FORJP001, kaud, amol, everlasting, eleparc, alejandroguzman, Telo has marked this note useful

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castellano (791) 2005-08-28 8:13

Wonderful train picture! The diagonal of the railway is superb. I like the kind of light that the picture shows as well as your choice of sepia.
Good job!

Furachan (0) 2005-08-28 8:29

Beautiful shot, Antoni, pure gold. You say "color" but it's really monochrome in feel. Great perspective and "sense" with those shiny rails... And excellent note too. Bravo! Francis

frank69 (26) 2005-08-28 8:38

Having had a look at your portfolio, I got the impression that you don't need any critiques any more, really - your work is really professional in the technical sense and artistic in terms of composition!

The light is great, and so is the amount of detail to be found in this photo. Are these hands and arms being stuck outside the "windows"? This train looks more like a prison train to me - without proper windows...
It rather looks as if the human beings were absent - you only see their hands/arms... - the technical things - rails, electricity poles, dominate the picture. The people are as in cages...

It's still a beautiful picture, technically speaking, but emotionally speaking it is slightly unsettling to me... I am aware that the atmosphere was certainly completely different, but without sharing this atmosphere this is difficult to experience...

Frank

tjanze (5674) 2005-08-28 8:59

Very nice train,rails and wires lines.Colours are natural?It looks like brown filter.Bravo!Well captured.

rozy975 (3047) 2005-08-28 9:01

Very good looking photo. I really thought that it was sephia. Well done!

leonorkuhn (16237) 2005-08-28 9:27

Hi Antoni,
Nice composition with graphic elements. Good perspective and depth of field. I like the sepia. Good job.
Leonor

dvlazar (6662) 2005-08-28 9:48

The thing I like most about this shot is the positioning you were in to get this perspective and composition. Great!

bantonbuju (51815) 2005-08-28 11:00

niesamowity efekt jeśli bez sepii!! super kompozycja i go zrobily swoje - to jest genialne zdjęcie;
brawo;
pozdrawiam, j.

designsoul (17843) 2005-08-28 14:07

Antoni, excellent shot, beautiful perspective, especially with the broken diagonal of the train. Full points! :-)
Sarolta

tsumeb (470) 2005-08-28 17:23

What an amazing image . . . . it even SMELLS like India. The natural sepia color makes all the more surreal. The composition is very dynamic and powerful. Bravo!

FORJP001 (3819) 2005-08-28 22:42

Très belle vue d'un enchevêtrement de fils et de rails qui s'étendent à perte de vue. De plus l'angle de visée est tel que les structures d'acier et de fils se fondent dans le proche lointain. (Jean-Pierre)

Rushabh (389) 2005-08-28 22:56

Antoni:
Nice image you got here. What time was this taken? Afternoon? The rails and the electric wires seems like never ending. Good effect! TFS

sarju (5324) 2005-08-28 23:36

Hi Antoni
this photo amaze me ... its hard to believe that these are natural colours ....
Very good photo I would day for sure ...
Yes ... I am a big fan of Indian Railways ... I mean for such a low price you can go pretty much anywhere .... once I stayed in a railway guest house that was right at the railway station and had a chance to see the life as percieved by the railway platform .... it sounds weird but it was pretty good
thanks for posting this photo ... it definitely brought lots of memories ... cheers .... sarju

arnabchat (7233) 2005-08-29 0:50

exclusive light and fantastic perspective. geometry and POV interlaced to its perfection. thanks, Arnab

jcandeli (40) 2005-08-29 9:08

wow. really amazing. The lighting is perfect and incredibly sharp photo with nice DOF. Love the train. Great job. JP

nerve (10231) 2005-08-29 9:13

beautiful composition here you made Antoni apart from the golden colour..
Very graphical, great catch!
cheers.

trasher (195) 2005-08-29 17:47

Swietny efekt. Az nie chce sie wierzy, ze nie zastosowales zadnych 'efektow'. Brawo!

avis2avis (4264) 2005-08-30 4:39

This is quite an incredible shot with the play of natural light on the myriad lines formed by the tracks and power lines, effectually creating a wonderful atmosphere that may be termed almost magical.

Well done Antoni!

kaud (1840) 2005-08-31 3:02

Lovely work.
Great color.
Live light.
Well taken moment.

amol (952) 2005-09-01 7:02

hi Antoni
excellent composition... its amazing that you got natural sepia tones... well framed... I love the maze of electric wires n poles... well timed... I like the way the train is changing tracks while another train is coming out of haze at far-off... I'd rather call it "haze n maze"...

everlasting (19680) 2005-09-02 0:50

Good perspective and great detail. The light is awesoem but worrying if it is natural. Pollution?

eleparc (24063) 2005-09-02 14:50

i love those train shots! they are simple but yet so wonderfully nice! you just made my day antoni!

scalerman (26900) 2005-10-02 0:31

Antoni, do you consider this to be one of your best? I think it must be. Professional elements and detail abound. A perfect shot, and the busying geometry of the scene is just epic! regards-c

alejandroguzman (4684) 2005-10-05 22:47

What can I say Antoni, everybody said EVERYTHING with this picture.

Just.... SUPERB !!!!

hugs
alejandro

Telo (307) 2006-07-18 7:05

I can't make any critique about this photo. I'll just try to learn a little with your work. I just want to reinforce what the fantastic light which add a great effect to the brilliant composition.

thanks for sharing.