Steam & Excursion > It Was Not Always Best To Freeze Steam Action In It's Tracks!

In this modern era of digital photography, we have the ability to control not only the speed of the shutter but the aperture setting and nearly 2-dozen other aspects of any given photograph.  This results in nearly uniform razor sharp images of any action, especially that of passing trains.  However, we may have actually lost something there.

In this fine photo the cameraman was likely limited by the speed of both his lens and the shutter of the camera as well as the speed of the film that he was shooting with.  The result was that he had a slight blurring in his shot of Rio Grande Southern #461 as it scurries out of Ridgway, Colorado in the 1940's.

The final result is just perfect in my book.  He has captured the stillness and grandure of the Rocky Mountains towering above the town while at the same time gave action to the scene with the speed the narrow gauge 2-8-2 has already reached in the short time since it left the Ridgway depot.

Just perfect.

Martin



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/19 02:54 by LoggerHogger.

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I like it, realism.