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Posted on 22/03/12 10:23:51 PM |
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Nick Curtain
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Back in time
I visited the Great Central Railway in late January. The image was taken early morning at Quorn station as the goods train was waiting to depart for Loughborough.  |
Posted on 23/03/12 09:14:03 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Back in time
Glorious! I'd never have guessed that this photo wasn't taken a hundred years ago. |
Posted on 24/03/12 11:10:00 AM |
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tooquilos
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Re: Back in time
Nick, you have really achieved that old world look about it. The image is fantastic  well done_________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 24/03/12 12:32:11 PM |
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puffin31939
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Nick, that is a wonderful image. Until I read the info I thought it was an old image you had scanned and repaired! Beautifully done. _________________ Man cannot change the direction of the wind but he can adjust the sails |
Posted on 24/03/12 8:33:11 PM |
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Frank
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I too thought it was an old image -- wonderfull work and composition. Frank |
Posted on 24/03/12 9:06:40 PM |
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Nick Curtain
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Re: Back in time
Thanks everyone, really appreciated. It was a simple conversion in Lightroom (sepia and added grain) and then cropped in PS. Nick |
Posted on 26/03/12 10:23:28 PM |
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Jota120
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Re: Back in time
Great image Nick. I thought you'd taken it but then I got a couple of Gestalt moments. My logical brain, all the signals are wrong, old. How can that run on modern network. Third phase, thanks to others comments here from you guys, yes it is my first instinct correct. I can see a few clues now to confirm, subtle points, won't point them out  .
I'd like to go there sometime on the train and take some photos. Again great image Nick. Trevor |
Posted on 27/03/12 8:17:56 PM |
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GKB
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Hi Nick, I think that the thing that really makes this image is that old wooden electricity pole in the background. Really 1950s and earlier. Nice shot. Gordon _________________ My neighbour knocked on my door at 2:30am this morning, can you believe that 2:30am?! Luckily for him I was still up playing my Bagpipes. |
Posted on 27/03/12 8:22:44 PM |
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Nick Curtain
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Re: Back in time
Thanks Trevor. The GCR is a preserved steam railway, which runs between Loughborough and Leicester. The stations and signal boxes have retained their period appearance and I'd guess they look almost as they would have done in the middle of the last century. At Quorn station there is a wonderful tea room, which is fully decked out in 1940s style with an old radio playing wartime music. I'd like you to point out the clues because the image you see was just as I took it, only I added grain and converted to it to sepia to give it an aged look. Nick |
Posted on 27/03/12 8:23:59 PM |
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Nick Curtain
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Re: Back in time
Thanks Gordon. |
Posted on 27/03/12 9:31:25 PM |
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Jota120
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I love the image the way it is. Nick: I really do not want to do this, and several of my points maybe wrong: You are going make feel horrible, and again I maybe incorrect. My Granddad worked for the railways for years, looked after all those Victorian bridges at a high level which still stand, but retired by the time I was born.  A quiet respected man.
1/ The telegraph poles should all be linked together along the railway.It is a great conduit to connect, not just railway but our telephone systems. I should not mention what we do now, but just very similar. 2/ I think the front tracks are concrete. In classical time have the oak/Canadian-cedar(?) sleepers, or in Africa a mahogany!, your choice and screw the rail guides(?) into them. Those are the clip on concrete version, but very very safe. I'm not sure this correct, seems to be combination of the two? 3/ Final pedantic point: On the right, that fence is, err, a bit modern. Again I really enjoy the image. You asked me so I had to comment. Great work. Means I look. I have some Steam Videos, will share them with you next time we meet Nick. Sorry folks, I love trains and planes and motor bikes ...... and friends, two funerals last week effect me |
Posted on 28/03/12 11:04:31 AM |
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Nick Curtain
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Re: Back in time
Have you ever had the feeling that you'd wish you hadn't bothered?!! |
Posted on 28/03/12 2:55:26 PM |
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Jota120
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Oh! sorry Nick. I was just being positive, answering your question, love your image and what you have done. I would never have guessed! So yes more please!
Trevor |
Posted on 28/03/12 7:13:49 PM |
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Sophie
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Great photo Nick and beautifully processed. I love the composition with the strong line of the rails leading the eye but not taking away from the train and the activity on the right. Sophie |
Posted on 28/03/12 8:53:44 PM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply |
Re: Back in time
Cheers Sophie. |
Posted on 10/04/12 9:01:57 PM |
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Paul 2007 thru 2010
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A lovely photo Nick. I have done a similar thing with photos from the Severn Valley. Yours seems more subtle and believable. Jota beat me to the concrete sleepers in the foreground, but one more thing that might make one think it wasn't taken 100 years ago is the telephoto foreshortening, mostly visible in the sleepers. They are much closer to each other than they would actually be. Telephoto lenses were used at this time but I doubt the photographer would have had one then and certainly would not have chosen to use one for this shot. I'm not picking holes, but a big part of this site and photoshop in general is making things look like things they are not. I hope you have printed this and have it on your wall. I know I would if it were mine. EDIT: Just noticed the man under the left hand signal in the high vis top
I posted a photo a few years ago on here of a boat on a river. I thought it looked authentically old. That was picked apart. Someone spotted a litter bin on the opposite bank. It's human nature. |