This is a view of the insides of the roundhouse where the steam and diesel locomotives and tender cars are maintained for the rides given at the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA. You can walk around a series of catwalks and watch the maintenance men work on the locomotives and get a real feel for the true size of these machines and what it takes to keep them in peak operating condition.
I shot this as a series of five bracketed Raw frames and combined them into a HDR (high dynamic range) image but this time I decided to use some new techniques from a training video by Matt Kloskowski available through KelbyTraining.com. Matt shows how to use Photomatix Pro to create HDR images with an emphasis on maintaining that realistic look instead of the overdone look of HDR that many folks, me included, fall so easily into using.
I highly recommend KelbyTraining.com for all sorts of training on Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, specific photography techniques like studio lighting and for all sorts of other topics. They even have Moose Peterson doing videos on location showing techniques for photographing birds and wildlife of all kinds. Neat stuff that you can watch at your own pace.
For more information on the Steamtown National Historic Site click here
