About the Image(s)

This image was taken of a part on an old train car that is in an outdoor display at a local transportation museum. The concept was to find an interesting composition featuring decaying metal, rust, flaking paint, etc. for a workshop I was completing. I used my 90mm macro on a bright, sunny day, so my settings were ISO 160, f8, 1/800 of a second. Post processing was done in Lightroom as follows:

- cropped in
- reduced overall exposure
- opened shadows
- increased texture and clarity
- increased black points
- used the point color tool to select the blue tones and orange tones separately and increased their saturation levels
- added a slight dark vignette

I always seem to question whether I cropped enough or too much when I'm trying to fine-tune a composition so feedback on that will be appreciated!