Photos not used in book

Photos not used in book

As we travelled to numerous great places and saw a great variety of trains, cars, planes and ships it was extremely easy to take thousands of photographs to be used in my book. Although I would have liked to have added more to my book I felt that over 150 pages was more than enough especially considering I had a deadline to ensure it was printed in time to be handed in.

Some of the photographs which are shown below were easy to discard as they did not turn out as well as I hoped. But with the advantage of a digital EOS 60D SLA camera and multiple Sandisk 32Gb Extreme Pro SD cards I was able to take a huge number of photographs to ensure I had sufficient images for my book without having to return to take more shots. I would hate to image the cost of developing rolls of film to ensure I had good photographs.

The images below did not turn out well for a number of reasons but these are some of my thoughts. Image 2334 was too dark and I should probably have used the large flash especially considering the dismal day with bad light. Luckily this was located in Gloucester and we managed to return to the ship another day when in the vicinity. 

Image 2888 was not crisp and I could not photograph the rear of the car. Image 3025 was a car cut in half at Heritage Motor Centre but each half was too far apart to allow people to walk through. With a car in the background that drew your eye it was rejected. Image 3568 was a train at the National Railway Museum cut into sections to show how the train was built which I initially thought about adding but I decided I wanted whole working trains.

Image 3970 I rejected as I did not want to create an additional section on helicopters. Image 4249 showed a biplane with the one wing stripped back to the frame which would have been included if I could have taken one shot showing the whole aircraft. Image 4370 was the carcass of the aeroplane but I rejected once I realised I wanted to show all parts of each aircraft. Image 5414 showed a replica of the first plane to enter the Royal Naval service but I decided I should use original aircraft.

Image 6480 I did not realise that I was unfortunately too close and cut off part of the cabin and wheels. Image 6828 I rejected due to the proximity of the diesel locomotive parked next to it. Image 7825 was taken at the Blaenafon railway after the book was completed and did not want to add additional pages or remove an existing section I spent time researching. If only the trains started running earlier but at least I have some great photographs for volume 2.