The Pride of Pensacola © 2014 Don Griffiths Photography - All rights reserved Subject: The Pride of Pensacola #1355 Location: Garden Street, Pensacola, Florida USA Link: removed for this group File: 14-B4-55 ABOUT In 1957, #1355 was donated to Pensacola. The 1300 series was designed to haul freight in Missouri to Tennessee and from Mississippi to Pensacola. She was built in the early 1900s by Alco with modifications being made in the 1940s. The Pride of Pensacola has been a landmark since my childhood. While still on active duty, I always got a pleasure driving by her while on leave to visit family in Panama City. While the city changed and grew around the train, she remained constant, steadfast in her new leisurely role as a local historical landmark. To see her in motion again would be so grand! TECHNICAL From the start, I had a vision of what I wanted to achieve with this photograph. My vision was to put the train in the sky and have her appear as though she is emerging from the clouds with track being created in front of her as she moves along. A nightmare for photographers, there is a fence very close to the train that precludes a clear shot from almost any angle. While I found an angle that minimized the fence, a lot still had to be masked out to go forward with my vision. I started with a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image of the train from 3 bracketed photographs. Masking everything out except for the train was time consuming and what I consider the work part of the process. The background cloud is another HDR image from 3 bracketed photographs. The HDR cloud image was flipped horizontally, rotated, then combined with a photomorphis textured layer. COPYRIGHT/SHARING You may share this image to your personal Facebook page as I consider that marketing. However, please ask other photographers before sharing their images with your friends. Administrators of Facebook groups that I post to are welcome to use my images as banners or other means to promote the group as long as the group makes no profit from using my image. When using my image for promoting a Facebook Group, credit must be given to Don Griffiths Photography as the artist/photographer. You are not authorized to download or use this photo for any commercial or advertising purpose without providing royalties from any profits that come from use of my content without expressed written permission or licensing agreement from the artist/ photographer Don Griffiths Photography. A modification has been made since the original post of this image thereby negating Facebooks Terms and Service Agreement
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