I photographed this Mallard LNER class locomotive in the National Railways Museum in York, England. It is an interior shot, and while the 1938 locomotive is particularly beautiful, the indoor environment didn’t do it justice. So, I made a precise selection around the top with the pen tool in Photoshop and then replaced the background, which was the ceiling of the cavernous display room, with a shot of a small town in the Cotswolds, a picturesque region in England. For the platform in the foreground, I used the burn tool to darken it. The small round plaque you can see on the side of the engine reads, “On 3rd July 1938 this locomotive attained a world speed record for steam traction of 126 miles per hour.” I used a 24mm focal length to capture both images, and the settings for the locomotive were 1/80, f/4.5, and 2000 ISO. There was a slight loss of depth of field on the train, so I selected the rear portion and used Photoshop to sharpen that area with Filter > sharpen > unsharp mask.
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