Today's HDR image is that of Canadian Pacific 7020, a switcher type locomotive. A switcher is used to pull out freight cars from different industry to put together a complete train when its larger more powerful counterpart takes over for the long haul. When the train reaches its destination another switcher breaks up the cars to deliver them as required. This particular model is one of many "war engines" acquired to meet increased demands during WWII. It was built by American Locomotive Company in partnership with General Electric in 1944 and was donated by CP in 1986 to City of Toronto for a museum on this spot.
As before, this is the resulting image from hand held three shot exposures merged in Photomatix. Original images lacked details on the sky and failed to capture the bright orange on engine body and rusting front.
I wanted to bring out orangish glow and increase rust texture to give it more "worn out" look. Tonemapping in Photomatix did a superb job of combining three exposures to increase color saturation in all areas of the photo. But it also made the sky look "dirty", as is the case with daytime HDR. So I mixed it with -2 exposure image to mask in the sky. Then I applied Lucis Art's "exposure" filter to give a slight pop. Finally I applied "Pro Contrast" filter from Nik's Color Effex. Here is the final product.
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| Original image at normal exposure |
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| Final product. Click to see larger version. |
Take a look at my previous entry here. Please come back for the last entry of this series featuring final locomotive engine in HDR from John Street Roundhouse.
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