Coloured Railway

I don’t usually do this kind of thing, because I don’t think of it as photography …. but more of just messing around on a wet day. I took some photographs I taken at a railway museum and played around with them with my Affinity software.

When I clicked some buttons, it was just a Wow! Really not quite sure what to make of them.

The process I used is roughly as follows.

• I opened the original image in Canva Affinity and made an exact duplicate layer
• I changed the blend mode on the top layer to ‘Negation’ – which was the Wow! moment
• I merged visible and put and HSL layer over that
• Adjusted the Hue slider to set colours to my liking
• Then boosted up the clarity to add texture.

Here’s the images below so you can compare the before and after

Firstly, a Barclay’s diesel locomotive built during World War II to service munitions factories in the South of Scotland

Secondly, an old carriage from the Glasgow underground, that sits there at the Dunaskin Museum.

Finally, the interior of a drivers cabin on an old rusty steam train with the boiler mouth on the left hand side

This is all too crazy, I won’t do this again —-promise!