About the Image(s)

I'm not a fan of trying to rescue a colour image by converting it to mono - if I want a mono image I usually make the capture with mono in mind.

But sometimes it's worth a try! I wanted an image of this steam locomotive (it's somewhat famous), but it turned up half an hour early, before I was ready for it - I should have been at the other side of the tracks where the light was much better! I didn't like the colour image, so I changed it to mono, played with the contrast a little, and cloned out a couple of street lights, and I think that it works.

Camera settings: Nothing special - this was a 'grab shot', so it was shot at whatever I'd last left my camera set to (iso400, f/7.1 etc)