TGR M4 at DRR

I do enjoy photo processing. I don’t always edit a lot for my regular posts. Usually I just crop and straighten, because for some reason I can’t seem to hold my camera straight. I will brighten dark photos and edit out the odd object like ugly power lines but mostly I like you to see what I saw. I love playing with my images for my own amusement though so I thought that this challenge from Lisa at “A Day In The Life” would be fun to do

Here’s my starter photo, taken at the Don River Railway a couple of weeks ago.

I used a photo processing program called In Pixio Photo Studio 11. It’s not as advanced as PhotoShop but I don’t really understand a lot of the technicalities so it does for me. In edit number one I’ve used a pre-set filter called Cross Process which is meant to make the photo look like it was taken in the 1960s I believe. It does remind me of some of my early colour photos when I was a teenager.

For this one I replaced the sky with a sunset and clouds sky. I rarely use this filter for photos I’m going to post because, as I said, I like realism and want the viewer to see what I saw. However, this does look nice, I think.

For my last edit I used a sepia filter which I think suits this 1950s locomotive quite well.