During our recent visit to Lancaster, PA for Grenville's birthday celebration which included the Chocolate Express train ride, he toured the engine shop of the Strasburg Rail Road. Since I'm not as big a train enthusiast as Grenville, I opted out of that tour and explored around the train yard. It was fun experimenting with the effects setting on my Canon PowerShot SX120IS digital camera.
You might also have some of these or similar special effects settings available on your digital point-and shoot camera. All these photos were taken with the camera's special effects settings without using any software programs afterward.
The steam train stopped at the water tower for a fill-up. This large and very red tower was a hard to resist photo "op."
Various images of the steam engine.
The same passenger cars taken with various effects.
The fun image effects used for these photos included super vivid, color swap, monochrome, fish eye, and color accent. Unfortunately, I didn't keep track of which effect was used for each photo — it was a just a fun hour. The collages were put together using Picasa, Google's free photo editor — another way to have some photo fun.
10 comments:
It is amazing what we can do with todays technology! I usually never do it though, I sometimes make the photo more sharp and I cut my photographs but that's it. But it is fun to play like that every now and again :-) :-)
Have a great day!
Christer.
I used to get to ride on a switch engine at a roundhouse every visit to my grandparents, both my grandfathers worked railroad.
Looks like you had fun... If only that vivid color option could be controlled, like the sky and train or buildings, but not the grass! I think I used to have a camera that allowed me to choose colors to enhance. Or was it a program...
Cool pictures, Beatrice. It's fun to play around with the camera and see what kind of results you get.
Great shots. It is always fun to play with the camera settings. I use Picasso, too, and it does a lot of interesting things. Not bad for free.
i love playing with the settings like this. these are really great, i can't decide if that big red tank is my favorite or the train cars. i would love to ride a chocolate train, but if they serve chocolate i might not fit out the door when it was over.
AWESOME collages!....:)JP
I missed this post. Love your trains! Great shots.
Having fun with the hobby is the main thing. I would have liked to have seen some of these larger. Alas, they are not clickable.
Like the different effects!
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