Dyfrdwy Tramway: In black and white…

I don’t often mess around with photos too much, especially attempting to evoke an older black and white print, but these shots of the tramway were too saturated in colour...
Drivers discuss rail conditions, and last nights Coronation Street, at the mill siding.
Turning them greyscale and tinkering on my iPhone came up with these shots, which I think are pretty effective and evocative of industrial narrow gauge. I won’t do it regularly, but from time to time it’s nice to experiment and see your models through a different perspective offered by removing the colour, appreciating the texture and detail in a different way.
The Hudson Hunslet, returns to the wharf with the forestry van, rarely seen after the war.
Until next time, more soon...

Comments

  1. These I phones give quite amazing results. So useful for model photography giving great depth of field and enabling close up photography. As you say taking out the colour does invoke a more period feel. Do lets see more of your quite amazing garden railway.

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  2. Phil, if you haven’t done, click on the ‘Dyfrdwy tramway’ label under the above post (or copy and paste this: https://paxton-road.blogspot.com/search/label/dyfrdwy%20tramway) and it will bring up more…

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