RMweb Premium Trainshed Terry Posted December 4, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 4, 2011 That is a great shot takes things back to the days of semaphore signals and steam Locomotives in the late 1940/50s Terry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 XP64 passing Holywell....Semaphore, ship, signalbox, track and train brought together in the rule of thirds.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Bickershaw colliery, March 1987, 20169 loading mgrs. Tom 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarke_T Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Taken on Saturday whilst firing 80072 at the SVR, The early morning light engine move from Bridgnorth.... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Rambling around Blaenau Ffestiniog..... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Dunno what it is about that one of the 66, but it looks like it could be a model! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I honestly can't claim any credit for this picture. For those who took photos in the days of film, you'll remember that you had to shoot off a couple of frames to get a newly-loaded film past any possible 'fogging' caused when loading the film. Well, I loaded a new film while standing in the cab of one of the engines in Woodham's yard in September 1967. This was one of the throwaway pictures, taken with the camera pointing down at the footplate. Completely unintentional, but I like the result: 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandman Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Rambling around Blaenau Ffestiniog..... These pictures look great and could quite easily be models. There is a form of photography called tilt-shift which can make pictures look more like models and this can be faked in Photoshop. I hope you don't mind but I have doctored your pictures slighty to give them a more model look to them. Hope you like. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon020 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 It's been a while since I viewed this thread... it's nice to see it alive and well. This prompted me to have a look back at some of my recent shots, and I wondered whether this was worthy of inclusion. This is 55019 (RHF) released from the rear of the train, still coupled to 55002 (KOYLI) and behind that D9009 (Aly). 55022 (RSG) has just dragged its train out of bury station down towards heywood, leaving D9016 (GH) on the rear to return what had possibly been the most powerful locomotive hauled train to run in the UK... 14,850hp has been quoted - the Deltic Gala Saturday night Beer-ex. I wandered to the platform end to join the other photters grabbing a shot of 19, 2 and 9 sat coupled prior to return to the yard... this image grabbed me... and I took two shots. This was the best. Another shot taken just a little earlier up at Rawtenstall. 55022 is passing 55019 running around the 6 coach and 4 Deltic train to drag it all back to Bury... RSG's bodyside windows and illuminated engine compartment blur with the slow shutter speed needed to get enough light for this shot, at 1600ASA... Given that this was hand held, I was still quite pleased with the result (thank goodness for ISM lenses) Jon 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 6, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2012 Noses Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 These pictures look great and could quite easily be models. There is a form of photography called tilt-shift which can make pictures look more like models and this can be faked in Photoshop. I hope you don't mind but I have doctored your pictures slighty to give them a more model look to them. Hope you like. I would be pleased if my layout looks like this when finished. Merf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 They do look like pictures of models. Digital scored that late afternoon in Blaenau as I would have given up and gone home had I been using old fashioned slide film. High time we saw some pictures of your layout on RMweb Merfyn J...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Staveley GC shed, September 1965: 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted January 7, 2012 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2012 Time I made another contribution to this thread. Found this while looking for some other pics earlier today: 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 ...tilt-shift ...I hope you don't mind but I have doctored your pictures slighty to give them a more model look to them.... (Post 185) You have to look twice: In the first photo, what happened to the top of the vertical pole on the right? In the second, there's a big depth of focus along the track and the big shed, which to me jars a bit with the out of focus elements. Can you control which zones the Photoshop fakery applies the "fuzziness" to? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryn Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 153319 and 222006 at Etches Park at 6am on 29-11-2011 1K19 153308 at North Stafford Junction 25-11-2011 5B13 43060+062 Etches Park 15-10-2011 More of my work can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/68367056@N05/ 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukedog Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Rust in peace! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandman Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 (Post 185) You have to look twice: In the first photo, what happened to the top of the vertical pole on the right? In the second, there's a big depth of focus along the track and the big shed, which to me jars a bit with the out of focus elements. Can you control which zones the Photoshop fakery applies the "fuzziness" to? You can adjust the effect in photoshop and the zones it is applied to. The two great pictures were taken by Coachman in post #181 . I only spent a few minutes with them to show the basic effect, but they could be better. Quickly you select the area you want to blur using the lasoo tool. Modify that by applying a feather, here you might have to experiment with the amount. Then apply the lens blur filter and change units to get the picture. Over saturate the picture to give it a more model like appearance. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Severn Tunnel Junction Sunset, 25/9/86 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unicorn1 Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Both powered by steam! RHDR No3 passes Dungeness power station 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.A.C Martin Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 The composition of that last one, and the framing of the shot with the wires and rails, produces a really rather beautiful photograph there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted January 15, 2012 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 15, 2012 (edited) I agree, very nice. It's shots like that (as well as more abstract ones) which inspired me to start this thread (both here and on RMweb 3). Edited January 15, 2012 by Ian J. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 If you want abstract, how about splashes of light from a sparking conductor rail, plus a trail from the headcode panel and a bigger trail from the windows? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukedog Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Atmosphere at Hampton Loade 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37255 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) I do like that one! If I might make a constructive suggestion, it'd ideally work better with a shorter train - partly for authenticity, partly to see the loco, partly for composition... Admittedly short trains aren't particularly easy to come by on the valley (save the drivex, which is perhaps a little too short!), but maybe an early morning run on a gala day with 2-4 coaches, before it gets too busy? Just an idea! Edited January 19, 2012 by 37255 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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