Michael Delamar Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornbyandbf3fan Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 With a bit of help from photoshop. DSC00914a.jpg Straight from the camera. DSC00914.jpg When I saw the colour photo, I honestly thought that it was a real photo! More so than the black and white one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jawfin Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Wasp stripes... On the sides!?!? You, sir, are amazing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37255 Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Wasp stripes... On the sides!?!? You, sir, are amazing. I admire the skill, but more so the patience! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted June 3, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2013 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 46444 Posted June 3, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2013 (edited) Morning Dave, DSC00868a.jpg DSC00868.jpg DSC00904a.jpg DSC00904.jpg You've done it again! Really had to take a second look at the first photo and the one of the 'H' Class. Beautiful modelling and great photography. Cheers, Mark Edited June 3, 2013 by 46444 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted June 3, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2013 Ruston, that really is top modelling and great photography too. I agree with what was said above about the colour shots being even better than the black and white ones. Which is a great credit to your briliant colouring skills, I think, because normally it's the other way round. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 One of mine: John 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptic Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Wasp stripes... On the sides!?!? You, sir, are amazing. That's the Bee's Knees.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornbyandbf3fan Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 DSC00868a.jpg DSC00868.jpg DSC00904a.jpg DSC00904.jpg Wow, that third picture is incredible!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren01 Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 DSC00868a.jpg DSC00868.jpg DSC00904a.jpg DSC00904.jpg Hi Have to say this is stunning sir,the BW shot is amazing!. Well done. Darren01 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 One of several water features on our layout 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 The photos I have seen on this thread are quite amazing. Great modelling and great photography. I would like to improve my skills at photography so hope a few of you might share some tips and any special effects eg smoke added to steam trains, lighting, night shots. Cheers Sam Hi Sam. The lighting is a key element. If at all possible, outdoors is best. Failing that a good window with the light coming in. (I have a problem with lighting at the moment! Good weather helps a lot...) Photoshop (Other image editing software is available...) has a few tools that help when editing. Basic black and white conversion is a case of changing the image from Colour, to "Greyscale", which uses shades of grey to render the colour detail. Basic smoke effects are a little harder, and involve "selecting" an area with a drawing tool, and adding "Clouds" effect in that area. Some "fading" and "smudging" of the effect helps to blend it in to the picture. (Model Rail's website used to have a "How To" do smoke but I think it has been removed now. ) Using "Lens Flare" it is possible to add "lighting" to lamp posts, even if they don't actually work! It is possible, using the "clone" tool and some patience, to digitally remove couplings, and other spurious detail. The point could be lost, however, if too much editing is done. Then it isn't so much a photo as a work of art! (The "photos" in the 7th Edition of Ramsey's British Model trains Catalogue are a case in point. These are artworks really.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Unicorn1 Posted June 4, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2013 London Transport STL's 1910, 1797 and 1756 rest inside Willesden Garage, 1937. Scratch built garage, re- numbered EFE models with some different ads. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jawfin Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 _6040813web.jpg Nice bird on the side, a shed mascot? I take a wild guess with something to do with Liverpool? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Basic smoke effects are a little harder, and involve "selecting" an area with a drawing tool, and adding "Clouds" effect in that area. Some "fading" and "smudging" of the effect helps to blend it in to the picture. I use Photoshop to add smoke. I add it by cutting it out of a photo of the real thing and resizing and pasting it into my photo. I then use the eraser on a low setting to remove sharp edges and to modify it to fit the chimney. Stray steam is done by the airbrush tool. I don't alway use a straight greyscale mode. Sometimes I put the picture into greyscale and then back to RGB color and alter the colour balance in favour of red and yellow, like the one below. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 (edited) Nice bird on the side, a shed mascot? I take a wild guess with something to do with Liverpool? Thornaby, wasn't it? Edited June 5, 2013 by Ruston Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PjKing1 Posted June 5, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2013 All these photo's are fantastic and its these kind of images that have got me back into the hobby after a 20 year break. Thought I'd have a go but bit limited at the moment as I've only just started on my layout and I'm nowhere near as good as you guys. Paul 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggzuk Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 (edited) All these photo's are fantastic and its these kind of images that have got me back into the hobby after a 20 year break. Thought I'd have a go but bit limited at the moment as I've only just started on my layout and I'm nowhere near as good as you guys. Paul Only just started? Wow can't wait till you really get going on your layout. Great photo!. You have the photo angle just right, nice and low. Way too often I see layout photos taken from such a high angle that only a bird would see that sort of view. Yours is such a great shot, that you are almost lead to thinking that you were at a Depot open day when you took it. Paul Edited June 5, 2013 by Jaggzuk 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted June 5, 2013 Author Share Posted June 5, 2013 Nice bird on the side, a shed mascot? I take a wild guess with something to do with Liverpool? As Ruston mentions, it's a Thornaby (Middlesbrough) Kingfisher. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted June 5, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2013 _6040813web.jpg That's quite some work there! I (involuntarily) moved my head to the side to see if the reflected light, on the locos' body side, would also move. Stunning work, you should be proud sir. Kev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PjKing1 Posted June 5, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2013 Thanks very much, I surprised myself with the pic, an I only used an iPhone!! Although if you place it at track level you can get some really good shots. I don't get much time 'to play' at the moment but I'll try an get a couple more shots soon as I can. Once again thanks again for all the likes (first time I've put anything on here) Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 I use Photoshop to add smoke. I add it by cutting it out of a photo of the real thing and resizing and pasting it into my photo. I then use the eraser on a low setting to remove sharp edges and to modify it to fit the chimney. Stray steam is done by the airbrush tool. I don't alway use a straight greyscale mode. Sometimes I put the picture into greyscale and then back to RGB color and alter the colour balance in favour of red and yellow, like the one below. DSC00918a.jpg Some editing software has a "sepia" setting, and some also have "old photo" settings. In fact, some of these options are available in Photobucket's editing tools (http://www.photobucket.com) (I think, they had a re-model recently...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midland Lad Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 New to the forum and already loving this topic, so I thought I would have a go with a photo I took of one of my locos on the club layout in the middle of an exhibition.... Be kind ;-) 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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