Garsdale station, a photo from Cumbria, England

Photographer's Note

Garsdale station on the Settle to Carlisle railway.
This railway line is possibly the most scenic in England, running through the Yorkshire Dales and gaining a height of 1169 feet.
Construction began in 1869 and took 7 years to build the 72 mile line with it's 17 viaducts and 14 tunnels.
Garsdale is near the summit so is a wild and desolate place but one full of atmosphere.
It was also home to the highest water troughs in the world, where steam trains could take on water as they passed through.

More details here:
Settle-Carlisle

Scanned from negative, adjusted levels and sharpened. I used Neat image to reduce the grain, but it's another poor scan.

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vts_ch (2624) 2006-04-18 16:51

beautiful b&w image with excellent tonal range, well done

pilpel-adom (3018) 2006-04-18 17:12

Good low POV take, Brian! You got the perspective here really nice with the B&W enhancing graphics and the potruding rail light and the dramatic clouds. Very good!
Chen

Rossignol (2289) 2006-04-18 17:27

Hi Brian
Excellent perspective, the eye can't help but follow that sweep of the tracks. Great depth of field and good use of black & white - totally fitting for the gritty industrial feel of this image.
Nice work
Peter

caius (242) 2006-04-18 17:28

Hola Brian!
Bonito punto de vista i composición. El blanco y negro es perfecto para esta foto.

Jordi

danyy (0) 2006-04-18 17:41

Bonjour Brian,
excellent POV et cadrage pour cette photo vieillie par l'usage du n/b, un très bon choix, d'autant que rien ne trahit les technilogies du XXIe siècle.
Compliments.
Daniel.

kajspice (4542) 2006-04-18 18:54

Hi Brian,

This is really good. "the long and winding train track"...

I think the image quality os actually quite good. I think for shots like this, a certain amount of authenticity is needed...

I was just trying to give my housemate (misstrish) an explanation of what grain means and why it adds so much to the picture...now, correct me if I am wrong, but I guess it gives the effect of age...like it has been sitting around in a drawer for some time. However, this one looks like it has been hanging (away from bright light) in a frame.

Good results...nice to see some oldschool photographs here...

kaj

ps. the sky looks really good...did you dodge/burn it? Something I am trying (and failing) to do at the moment...in case you have not noticed, I am trying to capture darker moods and subjects :)

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jinju (14265) 2006-04-19 3:30

I like it Brian. But here is where we differ. I know exactly how I would shoot this, and f/16 wouldnt be it:) Probbaly f/4 or wider. Im ofcourse not suggesting that this is what you should have done, Im just happy that there are so many different approaches on TE to photography. The good thing here is that at f/16 we get this great barren landscape, a sort of post industrial place devoid of live, barren. With the track cutting it up, giving it that steel, industrial feel. The acid rain skies are super. B/w was the only way to go. A blue sky would have ruined everything.

Floydian (30970) 2006-04-19 7:06

Hi Brian,
Excellent POV in this very strong composition. The B&W gives it a lot more drama in to it.
Really nice...good work..!!!
Regards, Henk

tcht (7565) 2006-04-20 5:46

Hi Brian,
The B&W setting's really really strong... Impressive depth and I like the low-ish perspective you've chosen. and I don't mind the grain...it makes this pic look more classical & timeless. strong compo, fine & effective result.
Rgrds,
Cheukhin

gebala (0) 2006-04-25 3:52

hello, beauty is this photo, eally stron, great BW work, exellent point of view, well taken
rgs

olopez (4959) 2006-04-27 6:41

Very nice compo Brian,
Perfect low POV and framing.
Good work,
Oscar

ben4321 (9875) 2006-04-28 6:09

Really good, moody B&W image. Great use of lead-in lines and I like the dramatic sky. The only thing I'm not sure about is the signal being so central in the frame...

azadys (717) 2006-05-02 16:12

Hi Dear Brian.
nice shot.
your subject is really beautiful.
DOF is great and B/W is the best choice.
thanks for sharing.

regards
azad

repaulson (607) 2006-05-03 14:08

Great lines Brian & the B&W is near perfect. Ross

greg64g (11193) 2006-07-18 4:37

Hi Brian

Well i don't understand why i didn't discover your porfolio before. this is great to see the traditionnal picture, sometimes i d like work with but that's so expensive. here the pov is so graphic especially with a superb b&w treatment
cheers
greg

partha (14023) 2006-09-03 9:37

Strong geomerical view.
Good use of B&W medium.
Congrats

marbles (76) 2007-03-31 17:08

I really like that kind of photos..
I can feel the space here..
good perspective.
thanks!