At this time of the year and at this hour

of the afternoon, there are very limited opportunities to get decent sunlit images close to my home in Roade. So sometimes one has to embrace the awkwardness imposed on the camera and work with it! Initially, I locked the camera to expose the picture for the background, including some sky in the pre-cropped image. Then back at home, I used Photoshop to cut the chronically underexposed part of the image and create a new layer. I was able to lighten this up sufficiently to create a passable exposure. The lighter background layer needed a little bit of work mainly relating to its colour temperature. After a little more tweaking I then combined the two layers and saved it. The reason for this method is that with digital photography an overexposed initial image is pretty hopeless to work with as it contains virtually no detail whereas an underexposed area does contain lots of data that can be worked with and brought back to life. The image shows 66425 working the 13.09 4L48 Daventry to Ripple Lane service that will later go on to London Gateway.