phil.c

There's not an angry enough button!!!

1 minute ago, Andrew P said:

Or a bonfire to burn the rubbish, so an EXCUSE for MORE SMOKE.

Or dump it somewhere/anywhere which is common practice today!

Slightly off topic, we have a country park just next to my house, the park has hand carved animals here and there, one area has a badger about four feet long  and a stoat two feet high standing on a tree trunk, the heads have just been chopped off

Naaah! Just Photoshop the flats, dead realistic that way and a lot easier

I always use the lowest ISO to minimise grain, I also focus stack when needed.

So, what has changed?

New camera settings?

Yes, I agree, modelling has to be seen for what it is, but as I said "Just a bit of fun" 

When I add these pictures to Pen Y Bryn I alway post the original model shots.

11 hours ago, phil.c said:

Photoshop

Pen Y Bryn.

11 hours ago, phil.c said:

Photoshop

Looks good, I use sampled real smoke/steam and then brushes etc to add to, the trick with some shots is to get the smoke behind buildings, lamp posts and under bridges etc

10 hours ago, phil.c said:

Photoshop

The biggest problem when adding smoke and steam is knowing when to stop as it becomes addictive, sometimes less is more and some fantastic effects can be added, of course we are getting away from real modelling but as I said with my caption in the PS picture, it's just a bit of fun and adds that extra bit of missing realism

1 hour ago, KNP said:

Very effective.

What program do you use?

Photoshop

22 hours ago, great northern said:

Thanks Phil. I shall do that when I work out what the final format will be, and how I'm going to do it. The trouble is it looks good from some angles and horrid from others.

That's the trouble with backscenes as they are taken from just one angle and we take shots from every angle

Looking good, just a suggestion, stretch the distant sidings to the right of the signals.

Lovely shot, good composition

Here's a few old shots of the station.

On 27/06/2020 at 09:11, gordon s said:

Thought it was too good to last. B*gger returned again this morning with a vengeance. Protective screens are a work in progress, but the b*gger found a gap no more than 6" wide through the plants and air pump to get in under the wires. This one is X rated as one swallow and it's gone, whole.....

 

 

That was bad enough, but he came back again to dive in through the wires at the deep end to help himself to another.....I'd always thought things were secure at the deep end as herons tend to walk in. Electrification of the wires that end may be on the cards, but until then some more plastic netting is called for.

 

This last week or so, has made me wonder just how many fish we have lost before the camera was installed as we had no idea this was such an issue.

 

Control panel is out now until additional defences are installed. They may not be pretty, but something has to be done.

 

 

I've been through all of this, lost all our fish including large Koi.

It started with a garden centre guy recommending one of those plastic herons, "herons are territorial and won't go on another herons patch"...exept, one morning we saw a real heron talking to the plastic one!

The next step was to fit 18" rods around the pool and fishing gut so that the heron couldn't walk into the pool, the next attempt was to fit sensors and a loud bell, only to find one morning that the bell was ringing and the heron was in the pool.

Criss cross nylon was tried like yours...no good, the best method is mesh, this works a treat except, there was a tiny hole where the mesh wasn't pulled right at one end of the pond and under some bushes, the sod got in there and took all the fish!

Today, the pond is no more, it's a lawn

About time someone swept that platform

56 minutes ago, great northern said:

Excellent Phil, but from Spital Bridge itself this one would be even more appropriate. Image is copyright of Andrew C Ingram, and reproduced with his permission.

i don't know the area, all I did was line up the engine sheds with yours, reduce them to approximately the same size, the picture was too short so it was stretched to size and extra sky added above.

Another old picture, not very good quality, it was very difficult getting a camera in here I remember.

Here's some very old pictures, fifteen years or so!

Thanks Andy...appreciated

On the up line.

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