Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Livesteam

 
A Live Steam locomotive, built in 14,000 hobby hours

Self-nominated, appears in Live steam article.

The photo shows the awesome power of a 1:8 scale hobby-built locomotive.

(Note: I've adjusted contrast & brightness on a Mac, which has a different gamma from most PC displays. This can be adjusted if necessary. Also, it could be cropped closer for a more dramatic effect. Suggestions, please!)

Comment: Ah, but without the passenger it would be just an ordinary locomotive, right? These miniatures are works of art - I do have a close-up of just the engine, but that's almost indistinguishable from the "real thing", so such a picture wouldn't be "special"... --Janke | Talk 18:11, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Well, can you link the 'without the passenger' version to satisfy my curiosity?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 06:08, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
OK, you'll find it, and quite a few more Live Steam locomotive pictures, on my Live Steam website. The closeup I'm talking about is on this sub-page. It is shot from a little too high position to be entirely realistic, though. For a "slightly retouched" photo, putting a 1:8 scale medel loco into a full-size environment, look at this. - too small for a FPC. I think, even though it was fun making it;-) --Janke | Talk 11:38, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Unfortunately, I had only a 2 megapixel camera at my disposal on the occasion (several years ago) - this explains the low quality. It does look sharper in sizes below 800px or so, but I assume that is too small for a FPC? --Janke | Talk 13:44, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]