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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by robengland Like others in this thread, I fail to see the distinction between a piece of blue cardboard temporarily propped behind a scene and a backdrop digitally added later, or between a piece of jiggled cotton vs a digitally added steam trail. How about snow painted on a sheet of glass in front of the camera? Why aren't printed photographic backdrops "unfair"? How about the folk who photograph a brick wall, make a decal out of it and apply it to a model? Or the same with decalling the entire side of a caboose or boxcar with a photo? "Cheating"? All model railroading is illusion. [/quote] You are correct that all model railroading is an illusion but MR is here to teach us how to achieve the illusion. The article mentioned was about how to add digital photographs to the backdrop. No problem there The aim is to teach all of us that want to do that how we can achieve it. The problem is that we could do everything in the article and not achieve the results they showed because they went beyond the thesis of the article in the water photo by digitally retouching the water in the scene. We could do everything just as instructed and fail to achieve the pictured results. It is like a math book explaining 2+2 but showing 2*2. It's OK in the book but when we try it with, say a 3, we get all screwed up. The "not to scale" caption was as stupid as putting a "Do not immerse in water" sign on cell phone b that is just what my 23 year old step-daughter did last week. With or without it there could be someone out there with calipers, reverse engineering the drawing.
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