[Jocko]

Here is one for you to get your teeth into. Plenty I am not happy about with this one. What do you say?

   
Nikon D80, 1/160 sec, f6.3, ISO 100.

[EdMak]

John, on my Laptop, using Touch-pad, bit rough. Can see it as a B & W also? Ed.

[Jocko]

I had thought about that, and the heid out the window.

[EdMak]

Missed that, black mark. Ed.

[EdMak]

Possibilities? Ed.

[Jocko]

Looks like you and I have been doing similar work this bleak afternoon!

   

By the way, Ed, did you get my emails?

[EdMak]

Did not get John, will PM My mail address. Could live with your image, without the lamppost. Ed.

[MrB]

The figure on the bridge and the other leaning out of the window both add to the interest of the scene for me, and I would only remove the lamp-post. So assuming the loco to be black -

   

Cheers.
Philip

[Jocko]

I kinda liked the lamp post. Here is photo taken years earlier. Caledonian Blue.

   

[Jocko]

This one, taken on the same day as the first, gives you a better idea of the colour on that day.

   

[MrB]

That's very strange, John - it looks nothing like that in the first photo, which was why I assumed it was a black locomotive. Is the right hand side painted black?!!!

Cheers.
Philip

[Jocko]

I've seen cars like that. Different colours each side. It was definitely blue both sides

   

Here is another rendition of my effort where I have tried to improve the colour of the loco.

   

[MrB]

The colour is still a long way off that shown in Posts 9 and 10, John.

From your first photo, it seemed that the loco had a glossy black paint finish, which was reflecting a small amount of blue from the surroundings, and/or perhaps being affected by a cool white balance setting.

The colour test images on DPReview show that the Nikon D80 can reproduce colours quite faithfully, so it is something of a puzzle as to why such an obvious blue colour seems to have hardly been recorded by the camera.

Cheers.
Philip

[Browser Mike]

Is it possible that the dark colouration is due to reflection from the station buildings ? The blue colour is clearly visible in the line at the edge of the platform and driver's jacket.
Mike.

[Jocko]

That picture was taken over 5 years ago and back then all I did with Photoshop was set the black and white points (with the curves eyedroppers) then set a mid grey (by same method). The image I posted has been messed with since but here is the earliest version I have archived. It is not as it came out of the camera. Back then I did post processing and that was the image I archived (now I shoot in raw, I archive the original raw file as well as the post processing image).

   

It was shot, pretty much against the light, and as Mike says, the station buildings may well have influenced the final colour. I was not disappointed when I took the photograph so it must have been more or less what I saw. Otherwise I would have taken it again.

[Jocko]

Just realised. The blue line, down the edge of the platform, is a white line? No idea what happened to the colours on this image. However, I don't think it has made a lot of difference to the loco, as this image shows.

   

[EdMak]

With a bit of persuasion, Photoshop does find a bit of Blue, done on Laptop, Colours may be a bit out. Ed.

[MrB]

OTT there Ed! - Blue platform, blue coaches, and blue bridge?

John, I did think that the platform edge should have been white. The top of the engine's boiler also appears almost black, and that was lit by the sky, so I doubt that the buildings would be making the whole loco look almost black. I would also imagine that the coaches would have been maroon.

I think this one is going to remain a mystery.

Cheers.
Philip

[EdMak]

Fair comment Philip, looks worse on Desktop, all I was pointing out that P/s found blue, albeit in a strange way.
Just away to sit down and play, Blue Moon!! Ed.