How would you all edit this pic

[FM Arouet666]

The Original

My edit


I like the drama of the train coming toward the viewer, accentuated by the track, but I didn't like the building on the left, trying to cut it out caused problems with including the yellow car on the right, which I think adds to the substance of the picture. My wife hates these pics, laying on the ground in traffic, sitting on a train track, ;).

I am beginning to see that shooting the pic is not the end of the story, you can sit around all day and consider editing. Paint Shop Pro X is really nice!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. At first, I did a similar edit to your first one,

but narrower and longer. I liked it. But then I got silly...

[intheflow]

2. My crop and lighting adjustment:

I used a spotlight and added more green to highlight the couple
looking at that lunatic lying on the tracks to get a photo of an oncoming train!
:rofl:

[Ms. Toad]

3. Very Nice

Looks like an entirely different picture. Mood changed (busy to peaceful), focus of the picture changed (train to couple).

Hmm...gives me an idea for a challenge or contest: Have us all start with a picture (perhaps even the same one) and transform it into an entirely different picture.

Edited to add contest/challenge idea.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Speaking of contest, where's Mogster

and what's the topic?

[Ms. Toad]

5. Uh oh

Hope we're not haunted again.....

[RagingInMiami]

8. Didn't Mogster get banned?

:evilgrin:

[intheflow]

9. NO!

:spank:

[FM Arouet666]

7. Great idea

I am impressed by how the pic was completely changed, the mood, the emphasis. Great idea, we need some starter pics....

[FM Arouet666]

6. Nice, I am laughing my butt off

Great point, my wife was yelling at me while I took the shot, I didn't take note of the two in the station. Your edit is definitely a keeper.

[TahitiNut]

17. "an oncoming train"??? Where? I only see a receding train.

:evilgrin:

That's a fascinating crop! It makes manifest exactly what I saw as 'important' in the photo. Kudos! I love how you brought out the couple on the bench more clearly.

[Samurai_Writer]

10. Here's my take on it

I cropped it to give it a more forced perspective, and lightened it WAY up, and sharpened it as well.

[hvn_nbr_2]

11. I like that.

I think you could go a step further and apply some special effect to make it seem like an impressionist painting.

[intheflow]

12. Nice.

I like taking the sky out to force the prespective. Looking at the horizontal ties in the track almost feels like looking at an optical illusion. and I never noticed the black and white stripes on the right-hand platform before.

:thumbsup:

[FM Arouet666]

14. I like it as well

Wow, I am amazed at how a single pic can provide so many different impressions. Dumping the sky really added to the tension.

[ConsAreLiars]

16. The art/challenge of photography involves eliminating the irrelevant,

among other things. Getting rid of the sky in this pic is one example.

[F.Gordon]

13. A different perspective

Went max-rad to bring out the detail. This is a great perspective shot, but I tilted it so your eye followed the vertical lines to the same point.... added a little more "interest". :crazy: Felt that color distracted from the "type" of shot this was so I went B&W. Removed some of the blown out bits. This was a two minute edit. If I was going to work longer.... bring out highlights of the platform roof, remove some stuff, draw/clone in the missing cables...

Anyhooo....

[FM Arouet666]

15. Nice

I think I have learned more in the last week posting a few pics and getting feed back than I did reading dry old boring photography books. So many possibilities with just a single photo.

Thanks for the edit, love the tilt.