TENMILE revisited

[Speedster]

Hi all;;

I took the advice so many of you offered in my earlier post (http://keyshot.com/forum/index.php/topic,6778.0.html) and applied it to this new cover shot rendering. 

But now I'm showing the story, circa 1879, of the "Photographer's Special", where the railroads commissioned well known photographers like William Henry Jackson to shoot scenic delights along the right-of-way for use in marketing and advertising.  Usually just a locomotive and caboose.  The photos were turned into engravings, and often sold as platinum prints.  I have one of Jacksons, signed no less!  Still having trouble with the perspective of the dirt ballast, as it's not a KS material, but done post.  I'll figure it out.  It's not a photo that tiles well.

The second and third image is just a test composition using a backplate I shot in new Mexico this summer.  I call it "Drifting Along", as the train is just coasting downgrade, Johnson Bar in neutral, and the fireman is eating an early supper (as they called it), since he could take a break after the climb over the Pass.  Just sort of a "lazy" shot.  I won't use this image as the Denver, South Park and Pacific never extended from the Colorado Rockies down into New Mexico.  I am working on a Denver & Rio Grande Railroad passenger train for this one.

All weathering done in KeyShot, with no KS post.  It's neat, as none of these trains have ever been seen in color circa 1880's except in lithographs.

Bill G

[thomasteger]

Great shots - and thanks for yet another history lesson.

[Despot]

Hello Bill

I love these shots, the first one looks much better than you're original post, much less CGI and much more realistic, especially the second carriage, that could almost be photographic... the other 'clay' shots are great too.

Well done

J