Photos or video?

[Rene Schweitzer]

This is a tough one for me to even answer. Photos can be beautiful but oftentimes can't capture the "scope" of the railway. Videos have the motion, but it's not as easy to capture a particular scene or locomotive.

What are your thoughts?

[John Busby]

Hi Rene
I figure if its worth presenting a railway in a photographic medium.
to do the job properly needs both video and stills to do it right.
But I am happy to look at both
regards John

[ttrigg]

QUOTE: Originally posted by John Busby

Hi Rene
I figure if its worth presenting a railway in a photographic medium.
to do the job properly needs both video and stills to do it right.
But I am happy to look at both
regards John

John just said it all. No need for further discussion.

[CandCRR]

Rene,

By video do you mean watching the scene from our point of view or video from the train's eye view? I would vote for all three (still, bird's eye and train's eye) views to truely appreciate the garden railway. And I will not even mention sound or smell (for live steam).

Jaime

[bman36]

Hey there,
I prefer to have both if I can. John pretty much nailed it. Later eh...Brian.

[Tom The Brat]

I prefer photos, but I've seen some beautiful videos[:D]

[Marty Cozad]

I voted photos simply because of time.
I can scan over thumbnails and see what i may be interested in. But if its a video I usually pass it up because I don't want to load it up.
Unless its one of the evenings where I can do nothing else but sit at the puter.

[Anonymous]

I'm with Marty....

On dialup computer, pictures takes long enough to load. With most video's, takes me so much time to download, that I often just forget about it.

If pictures are sized down, don't take that long to load on my system. But haven't found anyway to get around the slow loading of a video.

Guess I should buy a better computer, but been spending all the extra money that comes around to buy more stuff for the outdoor Garden Railroad.

OkieRRr

[Train 284]

Videos!

[Ray Dunakin]

Video would be nice if I had a new computer and high speed internet -- but I don't. So I prefer stills.

[Anonymous]

Photos! Then videos.

Matthew.

[devils]

I prefer photos as you get a chance to see everything as video pauses never give a sharp picture.
I like to see a couple of overall views as well so you can see everything in context to each other. It's nice when the magazine has overall views with the plan, but why are they usually so small?, a half page photo would be big enough without using too much space. When you walk into a garden it's often the initial wow factor that gets you.

[Anonymous]

I would have to say both! Mix it up..take some photos and capture some video with sound and share it.

Especially nowadays no fancy equipment needed. Just find a decent digtal camera with a video-mode and you are good to go. It is like having a super-8 with sound, color and so very compact. I love this small scale production for large scale trains!

Have fun!

Rick Q.
my videos and pictures are here: www.gardentrain.blogspot.com

[Anonymous]

I’m among those who enjoy making video clips. When I post them I usually post a photo image too, such as this one. Below is the 2.9 MB clip relating to it:

http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/BillC//orecarshort.wmv

Regards,

Bill C.
South Jersey

[SandyR]

I prefer photos, although video is nice for those who have a high speed connection and a newer computer. With a photo, if I see a building or a car that I like, I can download it and draw up some freelance plans based on it. Can't do that with video...
SandyR

[Drummer Creek]

I think a good mix of both helps to not only better portray the railroad but also helps to demonstrate the awe of garden railroading to those not familiar with the hobby. I originally created a website for my railroad because I would tell people about it, and they couldn’t believe I actually had a train in the garden. The most common question I get is about running them in the snow (so I put a link to Marty’s video on my FAQ page). If a picture is worth a thousand words both must be worth a million. [:)]

[markperr]

At our club meetings, whenever someone is running, I like to take a couple of short thirty second to a minute digital videos. It will usually be something in the way of traveling alongside the loco as it winds a bend or goes into a tunnel.
The videos are great to watch but I have no real preference other than videos give a more three dimensional view of the train in action.

Mark

[jtrost]

For those of us who don't have broadband connections, and with phone lines that won't come close to connecting at 56K, videos just take too long to load. Even a lot of web pages with all the neat images/graphics (surely not GR) take a long time to come up. Difficult to justify having the telephone unavailable for that long.

[Anonymous]

What about something newer? Like audio? :)

Here is my feeble attempt at a garden-train podcast.
www.gardentrain.blogspot.com
Rick Q.