Trains Passing in the Museum
The Henry Ford Museum, again. Because they were started by Henry Ford, you might guess the museum and the neighboring village have a heavy emphasis on industry. The two behemoths in the foreground of this image are a Canadian Pacific snow plow and a DT&I Railroad caboose. Henry bought the bankrupt Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton railroad in 1920 as a revenue hauler, particularly to ship the vehicles he produced.
8-exposure HDR at 1 EV intervals
ISO 800, f/22, zoom lens at 17mm
Post Processing
- white balance correction in Adobe Camera Raw
- tone mapping in Photomatix for a good histogram
- Topaz Remask to mask out all but the trains, rails, and shadow under the snow plow
- Flypaper Textures texture
- Alien Skin Snap Art -- Stylize Line Art in b&w; multiply blend mode, placed near the top of the layer stack after most other effects (The plug-in was applied before masking or zooming, so you can see some of the herringbone pattern of the wood floor and the building arches above.)
- Topaz Lens Effects -- Zoom motion blur
- Topaz Simplify -- preset based on BuzSim, but with reduced saturation
- Fractalius -- b&w preset, multiply blend mode, placed near the top of the layer stack
- Nik Color Efex -- Darken/Lighten Center (I usually lighten the center, but I darkened it this time. The vignetting at the top and bottom is from the texture layer.)
Originally Posted by Nancy Bell
