The old Swan View Tunnel comes alive!!!

[marc russo]

I have spent many years up the old Swan View tunnel and since i seen it i had always wanted to bring it back to life with addition of train tracks and train. While down Yarloop recently a got a great front end shot of the steam tran in the workshop and thought this was it!!! . I posted another photography group on how this project might be possible but being a novice at photoshop i needed advice. a mate did one better and showed me its possible so i went out Saturday and found a nice location where train tracks were strait(near bells rapids) then back to the tunnel to get higher quality shots. I found a simple "how to" composite tutorial on youtube and here is my end result. Well worth all the driving Saturday & blisters from walking . End result is a high resolution "Swan view tunnel lives again" photograph that was worth all the hard work


The Swan View Tunnel comes alive! by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

[marc russo]

The 3 images i used...

[seaslug]

That worked pretty well.

[Phoenix]

Well done Marc, very hard to tell it's a composite.
Especially tricky when there's smoke.

[P Plates]

Well done and worth the effort of learning how to, getting the different shots and the blisters.

[Gaz]

Interesting exercise, would be a lot of fun doing something like that...

[bill jolley]

I,ll give 11 out of 10 ,,,,,very well done

[marc russo]

Thanks so much guys, cant wait to do a different angle. This one will be hard.....


The Old Swan View Tunnel, Western Australia by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr