In our online feature, Trackside with Erik and Mike, Trains.com staff members Erik Bergstrom and Mike Yuhas go trackside and share their photo results with you. In each installment, we’ll include let our users vote on who got the best shot. Read this week’s installment.
Please read this week’s column, then vote and share your comments.
Alright first post back!!
Had to go with Mike’s right out. His “art” shot was just better than Bergie’s “art” shot. (see the double meaning[;)][;)])
Better luck next time Bergie.[:)]
Ugg! & Yuk! Your choice… Bill WAS
I liked Mike’s photo a little better, I think the framing shot took a little more “quick thinking” than simply setting up a time exposure with one car behind the lead engine. Now if it had been a New Amtrak engine behind an old F unit or something…
Noah
I do like a fast train.
This time Erik went overboard… I think!
My vote goes to Mike’s pic
Have a great week!
Carl
To me, Erik’s shot looks the best, It has better saturation and thereby achieves more presence. Mike’s shot is “ho-hum”. It needs a dose of CS bad, or patience for better light. Another thing that could help, would be a wider angle lens.
I aint crazy about blury shots, but I love Canadian Pacific, so I will have to chose Mikes.
Eric Nice concept of speed to the passing train. [tup][tup]
Mike You captured the hydro poles beautifully [tdn]
Had to go with Erik, that is something out of nothing.[:0] I’ve bee their done that an all I got was a blur. And for Mike he just snow ball it.[:D][:D]
Gotta go with Eric, I like the blurred image with the “speed”. Although Mike took the best of the poor lighting and managed to get a good photo, too.
Got to go with Mike. Nice to get away from strictly hardware shots. And I wasn’t crazy about the blurry Amtrak. I’ve ridden them and they don’t go that fast! j/k
Mike: Art is not your thing. [:(]
Erik: Fast trains are your thang. [:D]
Went with Mike. Neither shot I thought was to my liking, I felt the Amtrack was too blurry to see anything.
Erik got my vote this week. Both shots, I think, were the best out of the situation. However, Mike’s was just too busy for me. Had the entire background “noise” been gone and it was just the train framed in the sculptures, then maybe I would have gone the other way. In my opinion, I think that under those conditions, timed exposures make AMTRAK look best! I can’t tell you how many of those shots I have of the Illini!!! Interesting concept for this weeks voting.
Greg
wcnut
Likewise, I went with Mike’s photo; blurs just doesn’t do it for me either. Now Mike, I think, managed to catch a little class with the art sculptures. That added a little bit more to the composition. Yes, Eric; we all know that Amtrak isn’t that fast. The only thing fast about them is that they’re going down the tubes FAST!!! Being in PA I didn’t really appreciate them cutting the Three Rivers back to Pittsburgh; might as well not have it at all (could be next on the chopping block). May your days bring better conditions.
Have to go with Mike’s. I have a box full of poor lighting/comp photos too, not a pro you know. And I like to see my subject, so a pan shot is better to me.
P.S. TVRM has a SRR 630 in rebuild just like WP&Y’s 2-8-0. Weekend warriors are plugging along on it, and if it were not for a delay in the frame repairs, she might be rolling right now. Throw in RDC rebuilds, a covered wagon and coach restoration, new flues, traction motors on a GP9, you find we are pretty busy.
Eric:[tdn]
Mike:[tup]
That was an Amtrak …right?
Actually neither photo is one that I’d have taken without seperate metering. Sorry guys but you didn’t get it this time.
I’m voting Mike this week. Art…we might not understand it, but it frames locomotives in a really neat way!