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[llewpics]

Illinois Railroad Museum Visit - photo heaven, especially for HDR. Please critique - with understanding it is HDR and it may not appeal to all :-)

[Anbesol]

This doesn't even really look like an HDR, the colors look all sorts of strange and goofed up. Sharpness is great, but man those colors really hurt it. The color pallete of the overall image is a muddy brown and strange orange green and yellow hues, I don't find the hues visually pleasing at all, I'd try this in BW. The vignette is a little overdone too.

[snoid]

I agree on the colors.
Perhaps if you toned down the cooler color in the bottom.
I think it would look better in all warm tones.
Sharp and interesting otherwise.

[Greg McCary]

Colors aside, I think you could crop just a little off of the top since there is little the sky adds to the image. Otherwise I like the composition and think maybe an aged look or a black and white would work too. A wonderful subject don't give up on it. Keep at it.

[llewpics]

Thanks to all. The whole trip was one big experiment with the Tobacco grad filter ...this is why the top is warm and the bottom not. Here is the BW version ....

[GB1]

Hmm. I'm more drawn to the color version, really liking that sunset/maroon at the top and the way it graduates from the blue. I wish it were a little wider so not to cut off the front of the train, but hard to say if that would make the photo better w/o seeing it. (I've had that dilemma on my shots many times. Sometimes a tight zoom is best.)

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[armando_m]

Nice image, I'll love to have a subject like that to photograph

My comments for improvements are:
The crop is kind of doubtful, neither wide enough or close enough , leaves me wanting to see more of the engine, or more of the details

The color version I guess it probably needs to desaturate the blue in the shadows ? not sure what happened

the b&w seems to need more contrast , it lost some of the impact of the first image, for example right under the number the color version has a fantastic transition between warm and cool colors, which is missing in the b&w version, there it seems like a steady patch of gray