WEEKEND IS HERE, LETS HAVE SOME GREAT PHOTO FUN

[Anonymous]

It's been a long slow summer on the Railroad. Progress has been limited while "Honey-Do Lists" are completed, added to and completed again.

Today I snapped a few pictures of my newly completed Rockville Station. This one with my new Athearn GP40-2 CN 6421 waiting on a signal. Enjoy, and keep up the fine work guys.



Trevor

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by twhite

Great photos, guys. For the present, my new camera and I are residing at opposite ends of the house--we seem to get along better that way. When I think of the money I spent on it (I passed up a brass Key Rio Grande 4-8-4 on consignment at my LHS), I could shoot myself.

No Tom! Get that thing out and just experiment, write down what you do for each shot and then when you have the ones that seem acceptable to you, you sort of know the range to work with. I snap 20-30 each photo session and of the 30 maybe 2-6 are keeprs, but it is fun and a good learning experience. Avoiding each other will do no good [;)]

[selector]

Tom, I am sorry about your esperience with the camera. May I suggest you talk to a pro for half and hour and get him/her to show you how to get what YOU want out of that camera. It's just a chunk of technology, and will do what you tell it to do. Learn how to talk its language...

[howmus]

Some great photos this weekend!

Ken, Terry, & Steve, thank you for your comments! It has been the most fun I have ever had with scenery and I can tell you I will be doing as much scratchbuilding as I can in the future.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ac4400fan

Carl

What is that guy doing by the fence? I have seen something similar when I used to go to bars.[:0]

David

[Marty Cozad]

OH, I was on my way home going down hwy 2 and at the grade crossing just east of the COOP Co. I saw an x-GN and two other BN Sd45s switching cars.
I noticed a guy in the last engine and found out that his shift was over and he was deadheading it back to the station.

What a life, be off work and can't go home.

[Javern]

nothing cooler than train/station photos

[ac4400fan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dthurman

QUOTE: Originally posted by ac4400fan

Carl

What is that guy doing by the fence? I have seen something similar when I used to go to bars.[:0]

David

David your Right it does look somthing like that ,,i think he had a few too many [(-D]

[SpaceMouse]

Ray,

I was surprized to see that so few people commented on your corral scene. Karl was the only one on the front page. Thankfully a couple guys mentioned it on the second page. I'm here to tell you it looks really good.

[twhite]

Okay, camera and I got together, had a little discussion, I promised to to learn Icon if it would promise to stay the @$*! in focus, so we went over to my locomotive facility in Deer Creek and I got some shots of some articulateds dozing around the coal-tower.
Anyway, here goes:

One of my L-105 Challengers


An L-131 2-8-8-2 getting ready to head out onto the main


A big L-140 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone (just finished doing some detail renovation on it)


2 Yellowstones, a 2-8-8-2 and a Challenger should be able to handle the morning traffic, eh?


Maybe the camera and I will become friends after all.
Tom

[MisterBeasley]

Unfortunately, my digital camera lacks a tripod mount. For that kind of money (it's a Sony Cybershot) you'd think they could drill and tap a hole in the bottom. My pictures look like they were taken by the guy leaning against Carl's fence. I think I'm going to try making a mounting bracket out of wood and foam to see if I can get this thing to take good pictures without a flash.

[ukguy]

Ray, now that its in place it looks even better !! How easy did you find scenicking an area away from the layout and then inserting it into place? I presume like me, it was much easier to do. The scene blends in very well with its surroundings and I am mightily impressed with your results.

Carl, the fence looks great , but, when the figure is next to it it seems too big, great work tho, I think that stuff would make excellent wooden lattice around the base of a a building, or along a fence with some climbing plants on it, for the chainlink fence tho try using some 'tulle' from Wal-mart, @ $1 per yard its only slightly more expensive than free and much closer to scale. Excellent scene tho and some great inginuity.

Tom, dont give up yet, great collection of steam in thos great shots BTW, just practise and play, same as everything in MR, it will come good.

Great pics everyone, now I'm looking forward to Midweek Madness already.

Have fun & be safe,
Karl.

[howmus]

Karl, thanks! This part of my layout was started over 20 years ago when I "knew everything...". I never decided exactly what I wanted to use the space for until last fall. Back then I was sure I counld reach 5 or 6 feet into a space and really didn't mind crawling around on my knees. LOL It would have been extremely difficult to put together on the layout itself. Creating it as a diorama and then placing it in place worked very well. I had it on the layout 2 other times just to check measurements, placement, and such. My advise is to always measure twice, cut once!

Mouse, thanks for your comment as well! Where were you all weekend? Didn't see a single post until today....

[MAbruce]

A little late for Sunday... Sorry.

Here are a couple of older photo's doctored up in B&W. The first has a photoshopped backdrop:


Nothing added in this shot. Just given an old picture treatment:

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by MAbruce

A little late for Sunday... Sorry.

Here are a couple of older photo's doctored up in B&W. The first has a photoshopped backdrop:


Nothing added in this shot. Just given an old picture treatment:

I like that second shot, is that doing it in sepia?

[MAbruce]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dthurman
I like that second shot, is that doing it in sepia?

MS Digital Image Pro 7.0 "Antique" effect.

[Anonymous]

Looks nice!!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

I need to get back to taking pix of my layout itself. But in the mean time, here's a before and after shot.



After.

Dude, that hopper car is AMAZING! [bow]I am a modern modeler, and am looking for some new weathering techniques for weathering cars.

How did you weather that car? What did you use? How long did it take?

If you don't want to tell me that is fine too[:)]

[TrainFreak409]

Oh man, did I miss a good weekend...That's what I get for having a job I enjoy.[8D]

GREAT JOB EVERYONE!