Show us yours - Realistic modelling

[sir douglas]

i dont want to turn this into a discussion thread as its just for posting photos but since photos are still gone on my workbench thread and the traction loco thread ive put them into an album for you https://ibb.co/album/R7N0PL 

 

and ive got a video on a rolling road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfPSTOixJPw

[Andrew P]

Approaching Trewithen from Bodmin Road.

[33C]

W.G.Bagnall, 2' gauge 0-4-0ST, Coal India, Tirap mine loco.

Edited June 18, 2022 by 33C
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[87023Velocity]

37610 and 20303 head past 08802 in the yard with flasks from Sellafield.

[NHY 581]

[Andrew P]

25245 Departs Trewithen.

[chrissy]

7 minutes ago, Andrew P said:

25245 Departs Trewithen.

That hill looks real 😳 how do you make the plants and grass? Are you going to add sheep?

[Andrew P]

4 minutes ago, chrissy said:

That hill looks real 😳 how do you make the plants and grass? Are you going to add sheep?

Thanks, all is explained in this shortish Video. I hope it helps Chrissy, And thanks, I like the Sheep idea, not thought of that.

 

Edited May 22, 2022 by Andrew P

[Gwiwer]

Non-train details. 
 

 

 

 

[Gwiwer]

30 minutes ago, chrissy said:

These are great how do you take such clear close up photos? Any close ups of anything I take are blurry

 

Chrissy x

 

 

Those are by no means as clear as I would like.  Depth of field / focus is an issue when using mobile phone cameras but with the layout in a tiny space it's hard or impossible to get the DSLR in there to grab professional quality images with full depth.  

[chrissy]

13 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

Those are by no means as clear as I would like.  Depth of field / focus is an issue when using mobile phone cameras but with the layout in a tiny space it's hard or impossible to get the DSLR in there to grab professional quality images with full depth.  

Nikon DSLR is what my neighbour uses for all his photography if that makes sense.

[Gwiwer]

29 minutes ago, chrissy said:

Nikon DSLR is what my neighbour uses for all his photography if that makes sense.

Perfect sense. I use a Canon EOS7 Mk1. But most photos of the layout are taken on the iPhone because of space limitations. 

[47606odin]

 

[gwrrob]

8750 class pannier tank 4679 heads west on a K class freight turn.

 

 

 

[Andrew P]

4257 Working into Trewithen from Boscarne Jct.

 

[Andrew P]

The 13.25 Exeter St Davids - Trewithen Service arrives with D835 Pegasus in charge.

[The Johnster]

Close-up or macro photos need a bit of technique, but are not difficult.  The main problems are that the camera or phone must be held completely steady, and a tripod often prevents you getting the lens close enough to the subject, and that good light is needed to get the best DOF (depth of field, the range of distances from the lens that the image is in in focus) you can manage.  If you are using a camera or phone that allows you to alter the shutter speed, go for the highest shutter speed you can get away with, don't worry if the image is a little dark (I'll come back to this), as a high shutter speed will minimise any movement from an imperfect tripod arrangement, and enable the best DOF.  The more light you have, the faster the shutter speed can be, and if the light is very good you might even get away with hand holding the camera or phone, but I'd not recommend this.

 

If you use zoom or telephoto, the problems are worse, as the tiniest movement is enlarged as much as the image, and you need even more light.  If you can't get your lens close to the subject you will have to use zoom.  It's beginning to feel like a juggling act of controlling opposing forces.  If you can't use a tripod, set the camera or phone on something like a cloth mount in which it is sitting steadily, and use a timer delayed shutter release to prevent a manual release from moving the lens.  Sometimes a bit of innovation and bodgery is needed.

 

If the image is underexposed, but not hopelessly so, it can be brightened and the shadowy detail brought out in digital post-editing.  Some phone camera apps have this feature, and on a computer apps like Lightroom or some of the features in Apple 'Photo' will allow this.  It is, IMHO, better to deliberately underexpose a shot (to an extent) and bring the detail and light back up in post-editing than to overexpose it, in which case the detail is burned out and lost forever from the image file.

 

Bit of practice on small household objects should give you the skillsets needed for this. 

[boxerbayrailway]

~What the fireman saw~

Oh dear,  he's at it again !   It appears Ernest fancies the stationmasters daughter.

Who knows what goes on in our little worlds, when we aren't around 😉

 

[gwrrob]

A GWR 45xx small prairie 4547 heads east with a rake of cattle vans probably heading for Hackney Yard.

 

[87023Velocity]

08802 heads past the signal and under Bewsey Road with the trip for Dallam.

[Andrew P]

25245 Arriving at Trewithen with the Local Service from Exeter St Davids.

 

[NHY 581]

An older photo but one which may be amongst the 'missing'. 

 

Norman Lockhart captures Bath Green Park's 4F 43875 at Bleat Wharf. 

 

May 1955. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 24, 2022 by NHY 581

[D6775]

Snuck past Dovedale this evening to find 47303 sat on the fuel point:

 

 

[Andrew P]

PLEASE see my question regarding this and my other images in my Trewithen post.

 

Almost there. 

[97406]

This picture didn’t turn out too bad.