Weekend Photo Fun 10-3
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What, you been watching Emeril Live and you ordered "Smell-a-vision?
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dieselfan1
Member
California Zephyr
Here is my first pic on wpfView attachment 10865
I have to practice more on my focus
Here is my first pic on wpfView attachment 10865
I have to practice more on my focus
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Look out, the fuzz is on the prowl!
Selector
Well-Known Member
I agree, they are all nice images.
Jeff, do you have a software that will allow you to crop your images? I ask this because if you were to place your camera back another 8" or so, assuming you are on f8, you could get the close yellow car in much better focus. You would have smaller sizes in the image, or stuff would be further away, but if you were to crop out all that is not on the border of the shot you posted, you'd be right back to the same image sizes with your yellow car showing up much better. As it is, it is front and center and I feel I have to look around it to get to the best part of the image....which is darned good.
Someone put me on to FastStone, which is freeware available at tucows or downloads.com. It allows you to do all sorts of neat things. I use it all the time to soften, sharpen, brighten, crop....the list goes on. Just a thought if you find you are bothered by an inability to get the most out of your camera.
I hope I haven't over-stepped by offering you this suggestion, Jeff. I don't mean to criticize, only to point out what must be obvious to you, and what I think might be a source of frustration to you.
-Crandell
Jeff, do you have a software that will allow you to crop your images? I ask this because if you were to place your camera back another 8" or so, assuming you are on f8, you could get the close yellow car in much better focus. You would have smaller sizes in the image, or stuff would be further away, but if you were to crop out all that is not on the border of the shot you posted, you'd be right back to the same image sizes with your yellow car showing up much better. As it is, it is front and center and I feel I have to look around it to get to the best part of the image....which is darned good.
Someone put me on to FastStone, which is freeware available at tucows or downloads.com. It allows you to do all sorts of neat things. I use it all the time to soften, sharpen, brighten, crop....the list goes on. Just a thought if you find you are bothered by an inability to get the most out of your camera.
I hope I haven't over-stepped by offering you this suggestion, Jeff. I don't mean to criticize, only to point out what must be obvious to you, and what I think might be a source of frustration to you.
-Crandell
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Selector My camera doesn't have a manual focus, at least none that I can find.
Selector
Well-Known Member
How about a manual setting mode of any kind. Can you stop down the aperture? Does it allow for reducing the aperture, thus increasing the focal ratio, and raising the f value? If you can't really tell, and have no access to a manual (even downloadable from the manfacturer's site), moving the camera back will make a lot of difference, Jeff. May I suggest you try it in the next day or so, and if you can find FastStone, right click on an image you open with FastStone, scroll down to edit, another menu will open, and scroll down to "crop". I can talk you through the cropping off-line if you wish. Please let me know...I'd like to help you to get a gee-whizz depth of field if you are interested.
-Crandell
-Crandell
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
I can't find and kind of manual mode, just preset settings that don't do as well indoors as the one I'm using. The main problem with moving back at that section of the layout is that there's nothing the set the camera on and there's no room for a tripod. Space is at a premium as the layout takes up almost all the available space in the room. It shares the room with a refrigerator, a postage stamp kitchen cabinet w/ dishrack and microwave, my computer which is under the layout (including the monitor), my small computer chair and a very narrow path to the hall and the front door. There's no space for anything else.
Selector
Well-Known Member
Then, Jeff, all thing considered, you are doing very well to get images as you present them. Good work!
I have resorted to stacking small tables and using scenic foam canisters to get height. Camera is set on a bag of ground foam, or shimmed with wedges of foam, whatever, and set atop something that will give it height, but back from the scene. But if you are really cramped, you gotta have fun with the way you are set up. More power to you.
-Crandell
I have resorted to stacking small tables and using scenic foam canisters to get height. Camera is set on a bag of ground foam, or shimmed with wedges of foam, whatever, and set atop something that will give it height, but back from the scene. But if you are really cramped, you gotta have fun with the way you are set up. More power to you.
-Crandell
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
This is my tight space. From the MRC power pack you see to the AC unit is 6.5 feet and the room is 8 feet wide. From the left edge of the layout (against the kitchen cabinet) to the wall where the AC unit is located is 10.3 feet. The room is 13 feet long. Talk about using up all the available space!
rhoward
S.L.O.&W. Trainman
Over across the street in the WPF thread, Jarrell (aka: jacon12) posted a superb self portrait of himself working on project. Not to be outdone I figured I could post one or two of myself working at my workbench. So I put on some good clothes, went downstairs and cleaned my workbench thoroughly, set up the camera and took some photos of me doing the same thing as Jarrell was doing.......
Came out like this:
I call this one: "What the heck am I supposed to do with this?"
And this one is titled: Maybe if I put this in line....Wonder what it is?"
I guess you still can't make a silk purse out of a ..........................
Came out like this:
I call this one: "What the heck am I supposed to do with this?"
And this one is titled: Maybe if I put this in line....Wonder what it is?"
I guess you still can't make a silk purse out of a ..........................
Rico
BN Modeller
Nice Ray, looks like my bench too !
Took two night shots of the layout the other night, door closed, perfectly dark, unitl I turned on the street lights, hard to believe just the street and yard lights would actually light up the room.
Everything is kinda new as I re-did most of the layout for better op's when I changed to DCC.
Took two night shots of the layout the other night, door closed, perfectly dark, unitl I turned on the street lights, hard to believe just the street and yard lights would actually light up the room.
Everything is kinda new as I re-did most of the layout for better op's when I changed to DCC.
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ThoroughBreed
Dcc~detail~diesel freak
My FREE display cases
Great work already this week everyone!!!
My son works for Video Warehouse and recently they replaced all the wooden shelves with wire racks. They gave away the wood shelves and I grabbed 4 of em. They origianlly measured 8' long x 4' 8" tall and 3 1/2" deep. I cut off the top 2 shelves of 3 of them and used the 6 pieces of shelving left over, along with 2 I had to come up with, to fill in the gaps in the original shelves.
From 3, I ended up with 2 for the train room and 1 for the wife to use to fill with nic-nacs (I didn't fill in the gaps on that one).
So now the new dimensions are 8' long x 38.5" tall and 3.5" deep, with the gaps at 3 7/8" between shelves. The new gaps are just fine for any excess height cars such as auto racks or excess height boxcars, without track.
Heres pics:
these 2 pics are of the 2nd shelf as I just finished it tonight on the front porch:
and this pic is of the one already hung on the wall in the train room. It makes a big difference for getting the layout cleared off of some unused stock and locos.
Great work already this week everyone!!!
My son works for Video Warehouse and recently they replaced all the wooden shelves with wire racks. They gave away the wood shelves and I grabbed 4 of em. They origianlly measured 8' long x 4' 8" tall and 3 1/2" deep. I cut off the top 2 shelves of 3 of them and used the 6 pieces of shelving left over, along with 2 I had to come up with, to fill in the gaps in the original shelves.
From 3, I ended up with 2 for the train room and 1 for the wife to use to fill with nic-nacs (I didn't fill in the gaps on that one).
So now the new dimensions are 8' long x 38.5" tall and 3.5" deep, with the gaps at 3 7/8" between shelves. The new gaps are just fine for any excess height cars such as auto racks or excess height boxcars, without track.
Heres pics:
these 2 pics are of the 2nd shelf as I just finished it tonight on the front porch:
and this pic is of the one already hung on the wall in the train room. It makes a big difference for getting the layout cleared off of some unused stock and locos.
rhoward
S.L.O.&W. Trainman
Ray's my hero 'cuz he's so big 'n strong! And he keeps his work station as organized as I do mine.
-Crandell
What, you been watching Emeril Live and you ordered "Smell-a-vision?
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
jbaakko
Diesel Detail Freak
Got any left?Great work already this week everyone!!!
My son works for Video Warehouse and recently they replaced all the wooden shelves with wire racks. They gave away the wood shelves and I grabbed 4 of em. They origianlly measured 8' long x 4' 8" tall and 3 1/2" deep. I cut off the top 2 shelves of 3 of them and used the 6 pieces of shelving left over, along with 2 I had to come up with, to fill in the gaps in the original shelves.
From 3, I ended up with 2 for the train room and 1 for the wife to use to fill with nic-nacs (I didn't fill in the gaps on that one).
So now the new dimensions are 8' long x 38.5" tall and 3.5" deep, with the gaps at 3 7/8" between shelves. The new gaps are just fine for any excess height cars such as auto racks or excess height boxcars, without track.
Heres pics:
these 2 pics are of the 2nd shelf as I just finished it tonight on the front porch
and this pic is of the one already hung on the wall in the train room. It makes a big difference for getting the layout cleared off of some unused stock and locos.
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