Aaaaaaaannyywaaaaayyyy.......!
Sue/Larry and fifedog, many thanks for your thumbs-up. I am having fun coming up with different views and using different locos. At some point this summer, though, I'm gonna run out of turf and have to start the serious part of scenicking the layout. Lots more trees, shrubs, more little detail items, and so on. To me, it will be "Layout- Part II".
-Crandell
davidmbedard wrote: WCfan wrote: I don't know if my camera has that. All I know it that I'm holding it as still as possable.O forget about the WPF. No one else is going to show there photos. This will be the first time I have seen a Weekend with out WPF. All because of 2 people. I wonder Who they are? I also wonder if they helped out a All. Let's see, I read them and they only WHINED stated about how blurry the pictures are. SORRY! Not all peoples cameras are the same. I think I realized the pictures where blurry, you don't have add a comment to it. I posted the best one!Maybe I should leave for just this weekend. So long fellow MR's. WCfan, you need thicker skin, my man. If you are running away because 2 people said that your pic was too blurry to see what you were trying to take a photo of (some sort of speed regulator on your SW1500), then that is just silly.I am interested in what you have accomplished with your SW1500, but all I see is an Athearn chassis for a SW1500, a crayon (broken in 2), a newish tube of plastic cement, a file, an exacto knife (or clone thereof), an ill-fated kitchen knife, some thread, a jar of paint with the cardboard seal taken off the top and set aside (you should really store that paint upside down so it doesnt dry up), a lego piece, an end of a pencil, a folded-up piece of paper, a wood screw, an Athearn coupler clip, and the edge of a piece of sectional code 100 18" radaii track. No where do I see your speed regulator.Did I miss anything?David B
WCfan wrote: I don't know if my camera has that. All I know it that I'm holding it as still as possable.O forget about the WPF. No one else is going to show there photos. This will be the first time I have seen a Weekend with out WPF. All because of 2 people. I wonder Who they are? I also wonder if they helped out a All. Let's see, I read them and they only WHINED stated about how blurry the pictures are. SORRY! Not all peoples cameras are the same. I think I realized the pictures where blurry, you don't have add a comment to it. I posted the best one!Maybe I should leave for just this weekend. So long fellow MR's.
I don't know if my camera has that. All I know it that I'm holding it as still as possable.
O forget about the WPF. No one else is going to show there photos. This will be the first time I have seen a Weekend with out WPF.
All because of 2 people. I wonder Who they are? I also wonder if they helped out a All. Let's see, I read them and they only WHINED stated about how blurry the pictures are. SORRY! Not all peoples cameras are the same. I think I realized the pictures where blurry, you don't have add a comment to it. I posted the best one!
Maybe I should leave for just this weekend. So long fellow MR's.
WCfan, you need thicker skin, my man. If you are running away because 2 people said that your pic was too blurry to see what you were trying to take a photo of (some sort of speed regulator on your SW1500), then that is just silly.
I am interested in what you have accomplished with your SW1500, but all I see is an Athearn chassis for a SW1500, a crayon (broken in 2), a newish tube of plastic cement, a file, an exacto knife (or clone thereof), an ill-fated kitchen knife, some thread, a jar of paint with the cardboard seal taken off the top and set aside (you should really store that paint upside down so it doesnt dry up), a lego piece, an end of a pencil, a folded-up piece of paper, a wood screw, an Athearn coupler clip, and the edge of a piece of sectional code 100 18" radaii track. No where do I see your speed regulator.
Did I miss anything?
David B
I've tried to give you some respect. I really have. But it looks like you don't respect me. Yeah, you did miss something.
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ShadowNix wrote: I Btw, I LOVE your lumber mill.... did you have plans for it? Or photos... that LOOKS awesome. I really love the lumber storage building... very VERY nice... I need one for my scratchbuilt barrel factory I plan to make....Brian
I Btw, I LOVE your lumber mill.... did you have plans for it? Or photos... that LOOKS awesome. I really love the lumber storage building... very VERY nice... I need one for my scratchbuilt barrel factory I plan to make....
Brian
I built the lumberyard from plans in MR, way long ago, can't recall the issue. Could be from the 1970's. The plans were in N scale. Perhaps a search on MR's magazine index for lumber yard might bring up the article. I do recall it may have been called "----- Lumber", with a person's last name.
Bob Boudreau
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Railphotog wrote: WCfan wrote: I don't know if my camera has that. All I know it that I'm holding it as still as possable.Holding a camera in low light just doesn't cut it. I imagine the shutter speed would be way down around 1/30, 1/15, 1/8th of a second or slower. No one can hold a camera steady for these lenghts of time. Either use a tripod or set the camera on something steady. Use the camera's self timer so pushing the shutter button does not jiggle it. It can be done with a very little bit of work.Could be also that you camera is not focusing close enough. Did you use the close up setting? It usually is marked with a flower symbol. Most cameras should focus OK at this distance.There is no excuse for posting (or showing people) out of focus and/or blurry photos.I took this photo several years ago with a simple point and shoot digital camera. Only lighting was from a window on the left. The camera was on a tripod: See my photo tutorial in my signature.
WCfan wrote: I don't know if my camera has that. All I know it that I'm holding it as still as possable.
Holding a camera in low light just doesn't cut it. I imagine the shutter speed would be way down around 1/30, 1/15, 1/8th of a second or slower. No one can hold a camera steady for these lenghts of time. Either use a tripod or set the camera on something steady. Use the camera's self timer so pushing the shutter button does not jiggle it. It can be done with a very little bit of work.
Could be also that you camera is not focusing close enough. Did you use the close up setting? It usually is marked with a flower symbol. Most cameras should focus OK at this distance.
There is no excuse for posting (or showing people) out of focus and/or blurry photos.
I took this photo several years ago with a simple point and shoot digital camera. Only lighting was from a window on the left. The camera was on a tripod:
See my photo tutorial in my signature.
Bob,
Thanks for the tips... I used to do a lot of photography and it helps in the rare occasion I take TIME to do the photo's well... now if only I had a SLR digital camera! Btw, I LOVE your lumber mill.... did you have plans for it? Or photos... that LOOKS awesome. I really love the lumber storage building... very VERY nice... I need one for my scratchbuilt barrel factory I plan to make....
So, I built a 1.5V power supply for up to 80 bulbs last night...only cost me about $19 too!!! If anyone wants, here is the link to the plans... works AWESOME... I will take some pics of my now lit coaling tower to share. It only took like an hour or so to build (I had to find the parts, assemble, etc., so I was slow!)
http://www.awrr.com/1point5voltPS.html
WC, Bob doesn't need me to back him up on his suggestions about the camera (your camera) needing to be absolutely still. But I have only recently learned myself how important it is...truthfully, I have been having a lot of fun taking images of my layout, and when I can't use a tripod, it requires much more effort, many wasted shots, many poor shots, some terrible, and otherwise creative ways to prop up the camera so that it can get in and take the image while immobilized. A big plus is to use a shutter time release mechanism if you have one. I fiddle around with several angles and shots until I know where to place the camera, and then I input a 2 second delay on the shutter. I place the camera, depress the button to allow it to focus, then press to get the click. I gently lift my hands away, and wait for the magic.
The magic is a well focused, well lit subject, with a camera that is immobilized. That is why Bob, who should know if anyone does, is so right....use a tripod or use a block of wood shaped to hold the camera.
I use extruded foam blocks as wedges so that I can get different angles.
mikelhh wrote:
Are those suitcases on the back of that car? Such detail.
Crandell, I always enjoy your layout photos.
Bob B, Great lumber yard. I always get lost in the details. Wow.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Picking up the scrapmetal gondola at Prestage Tool & Gear.
Thanks for the tips Bob.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
SpaceMouse wrote: Here's a photo I took without my reading glasses.Bob, I think you should say "Use a good tripod."
Here's a photo I took without my reading glasses.
Bob, I think you should say "Use a good tripod."
Well any tripod is better than hand holding a camera. And most point and shoot cameras these days are fairly light and small, so an inexpensive tripod will do.
Looks like your photo is out of focus and not suffering from motion blur. Most cameras will provide a focus point in the viewfinder and a light that tells you the image is in focus, reading glasses or not. I don't have to use glasses when I take my photos, the image in the viewfinder works just fine. I do need them when looking at the image on the LCD screen.
Out of focus photos will look overall blurry, like yours. Unsharpness caused by hand holding the camera will usually result in doubled images, with ghosts of the object in the scene, as the camera captures both while moving.
NZRMac wrote: It's a multi-purpose room as you can see, 9.5' x 12'
It's a multi-purpose room as you can see, 9.5' x 12'
Multi-purpose, you say? Does that mean you can run steam and diesel?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Hey fellas I just thought I'd pop in and say HI!!
been busy with the new house and the big shift, I thought I'd post some pics of my new train room.
I'm planning a round the walls about 50" off the floor (above PC monitor) there should be room under that for staging/reverse loops.
Ken.
My Bachmann loco works the yard
Modelling the UK in 00, and New England - MEC, B&M, D&H and Guilford - in H0
Young man, someone will always point out (complain) if a poster's pic is blurry, flash-washed out, non-existant, linked incorrectly, sized wrong or won't resize when clicked for detail.
Use this as a learning tool. Figure out what is wrong, take advice and correct it. No one's cameras or abilitites are the same, true, but there must be standard paramaters for viewing here. If your pics are always blurry, then no one will want to look at them, and will not bother with your posts.
I gave you the benefit of the doubt, and claimed my eyes were (are ) bad. But, I cannot see in the blurry pic what you are talking about either.
Just constructive criticism. Enjoy your weekend and rejoin us.
galaxy - where the stars are bright, the skies are dark, and some galaxies are blurry! No wonder I can't see well at night.
-G .
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After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Well, I Dont have anything new to post at this time, it's 1 A.M. and I just got off work but, I guess since I was late last week posting something I guess this will have to do
I put these background buildings up last sunday Night
I still cant get the lighting right in the room but oh well.Great photos guys from what I have seen and Selector that is a AWESOME photo you got there
Chris
CSXFan wrote:Tough crowd.... After three months of nothing I finally got something done on the layout. I test fitted the second level of foam for the branch line and the staging yard. [IMG]http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i289/jdykstra11/DSCN1820.jpg[/IMG [IMG]http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i289/jdykstra11/DSCN1821.jpg[/IMG My shipment from Fast Tracks also came in. I only ordered 2 pointform jigs to aid in building the turnouts, mostly because they were 1/3 the cost of the assembly kit. I tried to build a turnout today and I now wish I would have gotten the whole kit. I can't seem to get the track gauge correct at the switch points. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to practice. [IMG]http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i289/jdykstra11/DSCN1822.jpg [IMG]http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i289/jdykstra11/DSCN1824.jpg
Tough crowd....
After three months of nothing I finally got something done on the layout. I test fitted the second level of foam for the branch line and the staging yard.
[IMG]http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i289/jdykstra11/DSCN1820.jpg[/IMG
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My shipment from Fast Tracks also came in. I only ordered 2 pointform jigs to aid in building the turnouts, mostly because they were 1/3 the cost of the assembly kit. I tried to build a turnout today and I now wish I would have gotten the whole kit. I can't seem to get the track gauge correct at the switch points. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to practice.
[IMG]http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i289/jdykstra11/DSCN1822.jpg
[IMG]http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i289/jdykstra11/DSCN1824.jpg
neat. :)
i see your sub-bed is foam. is it just 2" foam or is there an underlayment?
WCfan wrote:Here is the Speed regulator I've been working on. Is this better Dave?
Here is the Speed regulator I've been working on.
Is this better Dave?
dont sweat it dude. its just blurry because the flash is turned off. :) turn it back on, make sure its on AUTO (green) and all will be good. :)
in the meantime heres what im up to:
installing constant lighting in my new U33! - you can see Frankentroller 5000 there in the bg :P
testing some installs i just did in a 8-40CW and F40!
zoom!
and a rare shot with all the lights on beacons included
secondhandmodeler wrote: Well, for photo fun I think we should have pictures! I went to the Milwaukee Zoo last weekend with my wife. I was walking along looking at all manner of creatures when I heard a strange noise! Oh my gosh, it's a train! My wife called me a dork for taking a picture. I told her that she just didn't understand.
Well, for photo fun I think we should have pictures! I went to the Milwaukee Zoo last weekend with my wife. I was walking along looking at all manner of creatures when I heard a strange noise! Oh my gosh, it's a train! My wife called me a dork for taking a picture. I told her that she just didn't understand.
So is this an F3.5 since it's half of an F7. Now if you went for a ride on it, I may think your wife has a point.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Blurry Pictures?
What blurry pictures???
I agree. Weekend Photo Fun needs more pix.
Mr. B, I will look forward to next weekend's photos.
Here is a recent image of Challenger 3984 hauling mightily against a 2.8% grade.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
Why bother? Because you CAN! I'm bummed. I've been working all week on my pit-bashed turntable, and now I've got the scenery in and all the ground cover in place, at least 2/3 of the way around. But, the camera is with my wife in Michigan. (Of course she's in Michigan! How do you think I got enough time to finish the turntable?)
So, post away, railroaders. I'm with you in spirit this weekend.