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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 1:32 PM

Mark B, I like that shot of your caoling tower. Looks like it was taken on a moonless night.

Here's one I took this morning of a SW-1000 I've been working on. It's not great but it's good.

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Posted by Driline on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 11:18 AM
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One more.  What should I pick?

If I didn't know any better, I'd say that guy is urinating on the pop machine. Where's a cop when you need one?

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Posted by Pruitt on Monday, December 3, 2007 8:58 PM

Good looking shots, Mike, but there's a lot of folks in your towns that drive with the lights off at night! Clown [:o)]

Jeff, I really like the way the loco headlights hit the track on shot #6.

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Posted by Railphotog on Sunday, December 2, 2007 2:18 PM

Mike:

Lotsa nice shots there!  Does your camera have a white balance control, it might be called something else, where you can adjust it for daylight, incandescent, fluorescent, etc. lighting?  If so, using the incandescent setting would make your photos with less of an orange/red cast.

Are there flurorescent lights in your layout room?  That's what usually causes the green cast to photo.

Keep it up!

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, December 2, 2007 2:04 PM
Dusk is good. It's not like this is a contest.Smile [:)]

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Posted by jalajoie on Sunday, December 2, 2007 1:55 PM

Not exactly a night shot but a dusk one, hope that count.

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Posted by RRCanuck on Sunday, December 2, 2007 1:17 PM
Mike, thanks for sharing...I'll bet you get a lot of oooohs and aaaahs when you hit the lights.  As for the green roofs - I suppose it's a function of the blue bulbs - I've never used them before, but you might want to play around with your White Balance and see what happens. Cheers.
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Posted by mikesmowers on Sunday, December 2, 2007 10:30 AM

  Some very good pics here, I have always liked the night time pics. Here are a few I took last night, I replaced the regular light bulbs in the train room with some ''Blue Party Bulbs'' I got yesterday at Wally World. It was mentioned before that night pics should have a blue light to look right so I thought I would try it. Some how the blue lights make some of the building tops llook green.  What do you think?

   This is a beer party at the trestle, The little folks like to party there on weekends.

 

    Looking across town.

 

 Thats all for now,  Thanks for looking.                 Mike 

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Posted by Railphotog on Sunday, December 2, 2007 7:43 AM
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 Railphotog wrote:

This scene was lighted with several small LED flashlights, with no ambient lighting, to try and capture the effect of night time photo sessions on the prototype:

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WOW WOW WOW!!  Oh my god  I hate to sound real stupid but I am still not sure if that is real or not?  If it is a model well **** good job there!  I really like that alot.

See for yourself:

 

 

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Posted by jacon12 on Saturday, December 1, 2007 10:01 PM

 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
That looks good JaRRell.

Thank you sir!  Smile [:)]

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Posted by MRH044 on Saturday, December 1, 2007 9:45 PM

Four detailed Dash-9's at dusk.  G scale.

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Posted by C&O Fan on Saturday, December 1, 2007 8:12 PM

Number 6 and 7 are great shots Jeffery !

Congrats !

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Posted by GAPPLEG on Saturday, December 1, 2007 7:16 PM

Having just finished up a Downtown Deco coin laundry and installing it on the layout(first shots are in WPF) I wanted to test the lights so I just happened to have just made a night shot of it.

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Posted by rs2mike on Saturday, December 1, 2007 7:09 PM

I agre with jk.  Jeffery has good pictures as far as quality.  the paint jobs are a little  on the brush stoke side but that was not the point of this formum page.  Jeff keep up the good work with the pics.  Still love that ol steamer.  Good thread too I am lovin all the night pics and so is my wife. 

Jk love the pepsi machine, did you do it like the moon?

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 1, 2007 3:59 PM

Amazing work, I hope I can do something close to that.

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, December 1, 2007 1:50 PM
I do believe that is a model. I saw something quite similar offered in brass some years back.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 1, 2007 1:32 PM
 Railphotog wrote:

This scene was lighted with several small LED flashlights, with no ambient lighting, to try and capture the effect of night time photo sessions on the prototype:

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WOW WOW WOW!!  Oh my god  I hate to sound real stupid but I am still not sure if that is real or not?  If it is a model well **** good job there!  I really like that alot.

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Posted by howmus on Saturday, December 1, 2007 1:03 PM

Some really interesting photography here folks.  Very enjoyable to see the night scenes.  Here is one I did a little over a year ago for a contest across the street:

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, December 1, 2007 12:25 PM
Good shots everyone.

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Posted by wm3798 on Saturday, December 1, 2007 11:45 AM

Graveyard shift at the Paper Mill

and Down at the Station Early in the Morning... 

 

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Posted by Railphotog on Saturday, December 1, 2007 8:37 AM

Night time photos in real life are always better if taken just after the sun sets, while there is still a bit of light/color in the sky.  This makes the subjects in the photos - structures, trains, etc. stick out against a somewhat lighter sky.  If taken at full darkness, everything looks like a black hole with just the lighted areas blooming out.  To do this in model photos, it is always a good idea to have a little bit of ambient lighting on in the room.  This has already been suggested, using a flashlight, which is one way.  I've used low wattage bulbs in lights pointed towards the white ceiling to give some ambient/background lighting.  Then the exposures do not have to be too long to capture the model lighting, and the areas lighted will not look burned out due to too much exposure.

Here are two shots that I already have in my Photobucket album:

This one is a bit extreme, actually to show a sunrise with the lights still on.  I had a piece of orange cardboard set up behind the HO scale module, with a small light shining on it from below:

This scene was lighted with several small LED flashlights, with no ambient lighting, to try and capture the effect of night time photo sessions on the prototype:

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Posted by RRCanuck on Saturday, December 1, 2007 7:55 AM
Spectratone - good point.  The model is HO. I used a Pentax K100 digital SLR.  If I remember correctly it was set at ISO800, 6 seconds, f32  (or thereabouts.  I've cleared the image from the memory stick).  Cheers.
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, December 1, 2007 7:53 AM
My equipment is old. I use an Olympus 3 megapixel D550Zoom and a 5 megepixel Vivitar Vivicam 3935.

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Posted by spectratone on Saturday, December 1, 2007 7:43 AM

JK, did you get your new camera?  wow, I havn,t tried night shots yet. I,m impressed with some of these picture. And the guys that posted after JK. Some clean work there. Maybe after you guys sign your name to the post, tell us what kind of camera and model number it is? You don,t have to post all the settings.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, December 1, 2007 7:17 AM
That looks good JaRRell.

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Posted by jacon12 on Saturday, December 1, 2007 7:01 AM

My only night shot..

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Posted by RRCanuck on Saturday, December 1, 2007 7:01 AM
 jbinkley60 wrote:

I am still working on how to get the best night shots with my Nikon camera.  Here's a few of my current favorites:

Seems to me like you're getting the hang of it!  Sometimes when I take night pics I find that the lighted areas are really bright and everything else is pitch black.  To avoid that, and fill in a bit of ambient light, I play a flashlight over selected areas of the scene...when your exposure is long (maybe 4 seconds or more), just a brief splash of light here and there during the exposure can make a big difference..try it and see how you like it.  The great thing about digital is that you can experiment over and over for free.  I liked your pics.

Cheers.

 

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Posted by RRCanuck on Saturday, December 1, 2007 6:50 AM

In response to Jeffrey's request for more night pics I offer the following.  I posted it on WPF this weekend before I saw this separate thread for them, so apologies for the duplication.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, December 1, 2007 6:29 AM
I prefer Coke myself.Smile [:)]

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