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Trambyrinth New Colors

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With a little lucky timing, I landed a brand new Bombardier "rail grinder" and a 1982 Düwag running through the Roemerkreis trambyrinth wearing the same new color scheme of orange and blue. I like the colors, but the graphic designers focused too much on the nose, and not enough on the rest of the car. Rather surprisingly, it looks better to my eyes on the older equipment. Anyway, I keyed the orange and put it on a separate layer, did the same with the blue, then desaturated the background. This is my first attempt with a panoramic gradient instead of a circular one. I chose not to preserve it in this picture, but the bus visible on the right and reflected in the new tram's windows is painted in the old VRN scheme of white and faded aqua.
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1570x1070px 892.12 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
Shutter Speed
1/200 second
Aperture
F/10.0
Focal Length
28 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
May 8, 2008, 4:04:15 PM
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shenanigan87's avatar
Now this came our really nicely, at least to the guy without any talent who just says what he thinks looks best ;) The viewer's focus clearly concentrates on the trams, while the background is desaturated, which shows that its still part of the picture, but not the most important one. The same of course goes for the bus, which despite being reflected in the window of the tram doesn't spoil the picture at all.

I also tired experimenting with gradients and even tried to "fake" a hdr shot, but time ran out yesterday. Oh well, maybe some other time. :)