RMweb Gold checkrail Posted October 7, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2019 49 minutes ago, Harlequin said: Hi John, You ought to be able paint out the offending purlin as an alternative to cropping if you want. Thanks Phil. Yes, I intend to have a look at that and all the other things that AP might do in due course. But one step at a time! I'm afraid that my aspirations to improve my photography keep getting sidelined by working on the layout or pursuing other interests. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted October 7, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2019 1 hour ago, CCGWR said: I notice the signal in the first photo is lit. Remind me, are they working Dapol signals, with a few modifications? Thanks Connor. Indeed they are modified Dapol offerings. Using the RMweb search box you'll find a separate post on here from Aug 2016 in which I described the modifications. (Btw, just been looking at your weathering service website. Lovely work. Particularly like the small prairie 'before & after' shots. Pity you're in Oz!) 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted October 7, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 7, 2019 (edited) In this one you can see the signal arm, as 2819 approaches the tunnel. This was a tricky shot, balancing the camera on the steep grass slope above the tunnel portal, pressing it down with one hand while pressing the shutter with the other. The next one moves the focus to 5000 Launceston Castle again, as it meets 2819 coming the other way. Lowering skies over Dartmoor again! John C. Edited October 7, 2019 by checkrail 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted October 7, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 7, 2019 No focus-stacking involved in these last two for today - close-ups of 2819 before she goes for coal, water and a rest (if not a clean). John C. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted October 10, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 10, 2019 Here's 5041 Tiverton Castle, which has also had some treatment from Steve at Grimy Times. Having roughly got the hang of focus stacking I'm now trying to correct the somewhat dark tones that a few of you have mentioned. Here I've pushed the exposure compensation up to +2/3 and used some auxiliary lighting. I'll keep experimenting. John C.. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 10, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2019 59 minutes ago, checkrail said: Here's 5041 Tiverton Castle, which has also had some treatment from Steve at Grimy Times. Having roughly got the hang of focus stacking I'm now trying to correct the somewhat dark tones that a few of you have mentioned. Here I've pushed the exposure compensation up to +2/3 and used some auxiliary lighting. I'll keep experimenting. John C.. On my screen they look much more like it John. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglian Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 I agree. On my screen the second shot looks excellent. The locomotive particularly looks bathed in natural light. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold john dew Posted October 11, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2019 Hi John I think your focus stacking shots look great. After your advice I had a go with Affinity...It was much easier than I expected although I didnt see a really marked difference between a single frame and the final merge. How many actual shots do you take per merge? Regarding the brightness of your shots .....have you used the level, colour and white balance options on affinity. I find them very useful and the big plus if you dont like the result you can just revert back. Regards John 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 The brightness now looks much better and the last picture looks great on my monitor. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted October 11, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2019 And there's more …. The auxiliary lighting in the second one might be a bit too direct, but aren't those Hornby Collett coaches nice? John C. 24 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted October 11, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2019 I resisted the temptation to crop this one as I quite like the composition, and didn't want to decapitate the signal. So I've inflicted a view of one of the lighting tubes on you. I hope to use Affinity to brush this kind of thing out once I've learned how to do it. Don't know where to start right now, but I said that about focus stacking a few weeks back Passing through Stoke Courtenay 5041 meets a westbound parcels train. Holding the camera down on the station platform, but unable to get my head behind the viewfinder I see I've obscured the loco behind the platform lamp. John C. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted October 11, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2019 Castle meets Grange. 6801 Aylburton Grange has also had a trip to Grimy Times. A characteristically Great Western mixture of coach types behind 5041. Wow, that parcels train got out of the way quickly! John C. 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted October 11, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) 9 hours ago, john dew said: After your advice I had a go with Affinity...It was much easier than I expected although I didnt see a really marked difference between a single frame and the final merge. How many actual shots do you take per merge? Hi John The 4K video clips my camera takes when 'post focus' is set to 'on' usually break down into a number of frames ranging from somewhere in the high 20s to somewhere in the 40s, depending I guess on the complexity and depth of what's in the shot. At the moment I use them all, though it takes a few minutes. This is probably overkill, but as yet I'm not sure how many I really need (about 12 or 15, say?) and on what criteria to select them (e.g. every other one?). I'll have a go with the colour and white balance options on Affinity. Thanks for the tip. Regards, John. Edited October 11, 2019 by checkrail 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 11, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2019 4 hours ago, checkrail said: Don't know where to start right now, but I said that about focus stacking a few weeks back Separate that remark from the particular task at hand, and apply it generally, and you have the essence of the definition of a good modeller (as opposed to box opener). 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted October 13, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 13, 2019 A study of 5557 shunting cattle wagons at Stoke Courtenay. Looks like the fireman has spotted the photographer. John C. 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 I was looking at this image, when you posted it, at my son's digs on Parsonage Road. Mike Wiltshire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted October 14, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 14, 2019 1 hour ago, Coach bogie said: I was looking at this image, when you posted it, at my son's digs on Parsonage Road. Just round the corner. And at the time I was entertaining a Devon-domiciled friend whose childhood & teenage family home was on Parsonage Road. Small world and all that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted October 14, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 14, 2019 Aylburton Grange on down parcels. This loco does date my layout to the end of the 30s as I understand that 6801 was first outshopped with a cast iron chimney. John C. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted October 14, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 14, 2019 And a couple more of 6801. John C. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglian Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 (edited) I've just noticed that the signal spectacle plates are lamp lit – lovely detail. Edited October 14, 2019 by Anglian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted October 15, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2019 19 hours ago, Anglian said: I've just noticed that the signal spectacle plates are lamp lit – lovely detail. Credit for that should go to Dapol. (But the lamps are one of the few things I didn't alter on their rather strange signals). 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted October 15, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2019 (edited) to 4574 leaving Stoke C. with the Earlsbridge No. 1 B-set to head back down the branch. There is no No. 2 B-set. Well, not yet anyway. As it negotiates the junction it meets 4018 Knight of the Grand Cross on the up main line with an express. John C Edited October 15, 2019 by checkrail 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted October 15, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2019 Here's another of Star and Prairie crossing paths. The star has also had a trip to Grimy Times, but some further weathering to 4574 was a DIY job.. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted October 15, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2019 All action for a few moments at Stoke C. As 4574 passes the Star 5557 continues shunting cattle wagons in the background. Meanwhile 57xx 8709 trundles through on a local goods. John C., 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waraqah Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 (edited) Hi John, I've just come across this thread, and can I say very nice it looks to. Some excellent modelling, and it's interesting to see the various different approaches yourself and others have taken albeit based on the same prototype location. Another GWR gem to follow. :-) Andy Edited October 15, 2019 by Waraqah 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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