RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 5, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2019 Another long meeting, but now I have only one more to chair, plus the AGM. This is very good, as I am now completely out of my depth. I need a course on acronyms. No more of that, let's watch Sir Walter on his way North. We've even gone back up onto the bridge again. A bit lopsided, but I thought you might like the full view,rather than a cropped version. 33 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 6, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 6, 2019 As the Colchester- Glasgow receded into the distance, someone decided to take these photos. By the time the second one was taken though, the train had come to a stand so that the guard could put on a rear lamp, which he did very shortly afterwards. 24 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 6, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2019 12 hours ago, great northern said: I need a course on acronyms. Acronyms are a PITA, FFS. Discuss. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted December 6, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2019 45 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: Acronyms are a PITA, FFS. Discuss. Being pedantic, only the first of those is an acronym. The second is just an abbreviation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 6, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2019 1 minute ago, St Enodoc said: Being pedantic, only the first of those is an acronym. The second is just an abbreviation. Once an engineer, always an engineer. Sigh. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted December 6, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2019 7 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: Once an engineer, always an engineer. Sigh. As the old saying goes, forty years ago I couldn't even spell injunear. Now I are one. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxUnpopuli Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 (edited) On 04/12/2019 at 22:16, great northern said: Nice views, but pigs to photoshop. So in the TV/movie industry, bluescreening gave way to greenscreening, but the idea is simply to take a colour which isn't found in the shot you're masking. If you hang (or velcro) some contrasting cloth/curtains around the room (say, bright orange) for these shots, might that make it easier to 'shop in the new sky? (Don't you ever get tempted to add in a Dakota or a Tempest patrolling up there?) Edited December 6, 2019 by FoxUnpopuli Dreams of flight... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted December 6, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2019 2 hours ago, FoxUnpopuli said: So in the TV/movie industry, bluescreening gave way to greenscreening, but the idea is simply to take a colour which isn't found in the shot you're masking. If you hang (or velcro) some contrasting cloth/curtains around the room (say, bright orange) for these shots, might that make it easier to 'shop in the new sky? (Don't you ever get tempted to add in a Dakota or a Tempest patrolling up there?) I did try that a while back. I positioned some bright yellow card behind all those lattice signals, thinking it would, as you say, be such a contrast that shopping would be easy. Owing to my incompetence, or that of the programme, more likely the former, I just got thin but extremely visible yellow borders round each lattice. Never thought about aircraft, I have to say. We did have some starlings a few pages back though. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 As long as the background is reasonably uncomplicated with clutter etc and looking at your early pictures of the room, the walls are clear, then it's easy enough to erase the background and super impose whatever sky you like there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted December 6, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2019 1 hour ago, phil.c said: As long as the background is reasonably uncomplicated with clutter etc and looking at your early pictures of the room, the walls are clear, then it's easy enough to erase the background and super impose whatever sky you like there. It's hard to explain, Phil. Erasing the background often takes some doing, as colours all seem to turn to shades of grey. That includes my blue walls, and the white blinds recently installed to hide my bookcases. Then there are the lattice post signals, which at some angles get superimposed one upon another. Behind them is the darkest corner of the room, and that's when things get beyond my capabilities. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted December 6, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2019 Tonight we get a look at the V2 which has stood pilot all day, waiting for the call that never came. Then we come to Wednesday, when I decided I had to get some more photos taken. About 2.30pm the sun was bright but very low, and shining cleverly through the slats of the blinds. A 9F appeared with a York parcels, and we leaned out from Crescent Bridge to get this shot. I never set the camera to auto, but this shot came out with such peculiar tones that it wouldn't have been worth showing. Messing about with Digital Photo Pro I changed it from daylight setting to auto, and it transformed itsef into this. Most peculiar. Here's what it looked like before I did that. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, great northern said: It's hard to explain, Phil. Erasing the background often takes some doing, as colours all seem to turn to shades of grey. That includes my blue walls, and the white blinds recently installed to hide my bookcases. Then there are the lattice post signals, which at some angles get superimposed one upon another. Behind them is the darkest corner of the room, and that's when things get beyond my capabilities. If you have Photoshop, (I can't speak about other programs but they have similar tools) the magic want tool can work good providing as I said, the background isn't cluttered which yours isn't, a tolerence of 30 seams to be the norm, just click on an open area, it will be selected, i.e. Marching ants around the circumference, then hit delete on the keyboard, signal lattice work etc is easy, you just click on the areas to be deleted. The tolerence can be higher education or lowered if the selection isn't quite right. The original picture needs to be copied and then turned off, a picture of your chosen sky is added as a layer and dragged underneath the copy, so that when the selected areas are deleted, the sky show through. Edited December 6, 2019 by phil.c Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted December 7, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2019 10 hours ago, phil.c said: If you have Photoshop, (I can't speak about other programs but they have similar tools) the magic want tool can work good providing as I said, the background isn't cluttered which yours isn't, a tolerence of 30 seams to be the norm, just click on an open area, it will be selected, i.e. Marching ants around the circumference, then hit delete on the keyboard, signal lattice work etc is easy, you just click on the areas to be deleted. The tolerence can be higher education or lowered if the selection isn't quite right. The original picture needs to be copied and then turned off, a picture of your chosen sky is added as a layer and dragged underneath the copy, so that when the selected areas are deleted, the sky show through. That's what I'm doing, but with Paint.Net rather than Photoshop. Being a free programme it may well be less accurate I suppose, or it could just be me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 7, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 7, 2019 The ECS from Delaval sidings to Holloway is next, with a rather neglected KX V2 doing the job. I really must ask the photographer what was the point of taking the next one. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 18 minutes ago, great northern said: That's what I'm doing, but with Paint.Net rather than Photoshop. Being a free programme it may well be less accurate I suppose, or it could just be me. The other way but it takes a little longer is to create a path by adding nodes around the main area, then selecting it and cutting it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JeffP Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 1 hour ago, great northern said: The ECS from Delaval sidings to Holloway is next, with a rather neglected KX V2 doing the job. I really must ask the photographer what was the point of taking the next one. He had one frame left on his film, and wanted to finish it so as to be able to take it out and put a new one in quickly. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted December 7, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2019 2 hours ago, JeffP said: He had one frame left on his film, and wanted to finish it so as to be able to take it out and put a new one in quickly. That's it. Thanks for reminding me/him. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 PN features, starts at 2:07 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SVR C & W Posted December 7, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2019 There are a few more videos uploaded by the same guy on vimeo. One of the best ways to spend 25 minutes a time. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 7, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 7, 2019 The V2 looms a little larger now. and it will shortly encounter 60028, bringing in the FO version of the 8.05 Newcastle. This is a nice uncomplicated train to assemble, 8 end vestibule SKs, topped and tailed by four compartment BSKs. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 13 hours ago, phil.c said: G'day Folks Not something you really see on a Model railway. Weather. You get the odd snow scene or a bit of added rain, but a threatening sky, when it's about to chuck down........ If it was Kings Cross, you would expect the tunnels are about to be filled with water !! manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 8, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 8, 2019 More roof shots this morning, as Walter K Whigham advances and slows for a five minute stop. 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 17 hours ago, SVR C & W said: There are a few more videos uploaded by the same guy on vimeo. One of the best ways to spend 25 minutes a time. Sigh...I start watching those, click on another, then another, migrate to cabrides and half a day is gone... 1 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SVR C & W Posted December 8, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 8, 2019 8 hours ago, JeffP said: Sigh...I start watching those, click on another, then another, migrate to cabrides and half a day is gone... You're not alone. Although I do stop, only to make a brew. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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