Something different'.. the artistic side of our modeling photography'... Many have photoshop and other programs. Many laptops and computers have built in creative photographic tools and programs. If you've been wanting to experiment with your camera and your PC, give it a try. Lets have some fun! No nitpicking here! No prototype correctness required'...
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I remember when posterization was a three day process in a wet darkroom. Along comes digital and you just grab several spots on a histogram and pull them max and min and you have a posterization. What's the world coming to. j
'Alco RS-3 in Electric'
Thanks Tom for contributing'...
Yes, it's a little ERIE'
In the seventies and eighties this stuff was hot and you could not yet do it on a computer. Art directors would pay my day rate for me to go into the darkroom for the two or three days it took to make a complex posterization. They could be as many steps as you were willing to suffer through and the more steps the finer and lacier the effect. Today I had this roughed out in about two minutes and tinkered with it for about thirty minutes. The OGR forum site compressed it quite a bit so it looks flatter here than in my computer. The original shot was made in Birmingham AL. in 1976. One night about 10pm I heard a steam whistle off in the distance towards down town B'ham so I gathered up the wife and camera drove towards the sound. Nikon Scan4 software though any software with a histogram will work. j
Having grown up using, viewing and processing B&W photography I find myself returning to that format. It is so easy to do with the click of a mouse 
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Dad took the pic of the Santa Fe station at Grand Canyon, Az and I probably processed that enlargement. Nothing will ever replace the magic of watching an image form on a sheet of photo-paper soaking in the tray of Developer.
Lew
How true Gey, And there is still nothing as good as Kodachrome 64 ASA... Thank you for your contribution'..
Nice work JohnActon'...Thanks for contributing'..
Oh yes! Kodachrome 64 ASA forever! I have my Dad's 35mm [mostly] Kodachrome slide collection. When he started it was ASA 10. You needed a bright day because unless you were wealthy your camera lens was small and thus not too great at gathering light. I know there are Kodachrome slides in there of Espee Daylights. One of these days I'll start going through them.
Lew
The 765 in a different light...
TOM: LOVE those Andy Warholesque switchers! BRILLIANT!
geysergazer posted:Oh yes! Kodachrome 64 ASA forever! I have my Dad's 35mm [mostly] Kodachrome slide collection. When he started it was ASA 10. You needed a bright day because unless you were wealthy your camera lens was small and thus not too great at gathering light. I know there are Kodachrome slides in there of Espee Daylights. One of these days I'll start going through them.
Lew
Hey Lew, do you remember the Kodak 620 camera with the fold out bellows? I used to deliver news papers, age 12. One my customers on my route gave me one as a tip. It used a 8 picture gigantic roll of film.. a very low ASA. But boy, it was a heck of a solid camera... Wish I still had it'...
I shot more movies than stills though I had a nice darkroom with a 4x5 enlarger. Also a Speed Graphic 4x5 camera. This was my movie camera. Bolex converted to double super 8. I had a Bolex anamorphic lens for shooting wide screen with matte box. Loved that camera. Wish I shot some trains with it. Don
scale rail posted:I shot more movies than stills though I had a nice darkroom with a 4x5 enlarger. Also a Speed Graphic 4x5 camera. This was my movie camera. Bolex converted to double super 8. I had a Bolex anamorphic lens for shooting wide screen with matte box. Loved that camera. Wish I shot some trains with it. Don
Luckily you had a great “Sound Man.”
This is a very young guy by the name of Don with an early Betacam camera. That's Mother Teresa giving me a small cross. Don
When posting, can everyone mention the software they used to create their images? That would help the wanna-be's (like me) to make it a little easier to recreate some of these great images.
Dale
Most of the photos can easily be done with PhotoShop. You can rent Photoshop now by the month. It's cheap. Don
Hi Pennsylover, I am not using Photoshop. I am only using what came installed on my Laptop. If you look at the top icons when you want to send an email, you'll see an Icon, Insert. Next to it should say picture. Click on that icon.
Now your photo file will open. Pick out a photo. Click and will go into you blank email page. Now look at the top and there should be icons to edit the photo you just placed in the email. Click on those icons and menus will open, to change the photo's color, size, background, and all kinds of things.... Give it a try... Your computer may have different settings or names for the icons.. But they all do the same things...
PSYCHEDELIC 70's PEOPLE'... 
1/4 gauge, this should keep you up at night. Don
That's cool Don'... a rolling fish eye'''...
Here’s a few photos of our layout altered to look like a watercolor painting.
Wow, Gadyer', the water color effect is just beautiful. Excellent illustrations'... I love it. You have a terrific layout'...
Ed, Jay Jay, and Brian', nice additions to the thread'... THANKS very much for contributing'... 
Quarter, one more.....
Quarter Gauger 48 posted:geysergazer posted:Oh yes! Kodachrome 64 ASA forever! I have my Dad's 35mm [mostly] Kodachrome slide collection. When he started it was ASA 10. You needed a bright day because unless you were wealthy your camera lens was small and thus not too great at gathering light. I know there are Kodachrome slides in there of Espee Daylights. One of these days I'll start going through them.
Lew
Hey Lew, do you remember the Kodak 620 camera with the fold out bellows? I used to deliver news papers, age 12. One my customers on my route gave me one as a tip. It used a 8 picture gigantic roll of film.. a very low ASA. But boy, it was a heck of a solid camera... Wish I still had it'...
That was Dad's usual camera for many years (30s, before Kodachrome)! Then he bought a folding 35mm camera that had these weird film canisters. That was the camera he used for years of 35mm Kodachrome slide shooting. It became my first camera. I had to hand load film in reused cartridges because Kodak had long since dropped support for that product. That was OK because Dad was buying 35mm B&W film in bulk. You learned manual dexterity measuring, cutting and loading film in the dark. The old Kodak 620 camera became the core of his homemade enlarger. In later years he bought (used) a Beseler enlarger.
Lew
lew, it sure was a different world. Just about everything required some manual dexterity. I think this is the reason us "Baby Boomers" appreciate things and have sentimental values. Something I don't see much of in today's times from the younger elements....
When I turned 13, my Dad saw I was using the old Kodak , but not getting great results. So for my birthday he bought me an Agfa Gevaert 35 MM rangefinder camera from Germany. I loved that camera even though it was a low end, it was cool and took decent pictures. I've loved photography ever since'... and now days have a different 
camera for every occasion'...
scale rail posted:Quarter, one more.....
Hey Don, I haven't partaken, but from what I've heard, this looks like a train ride on LSD'...(LOL).....
Oil paint illustration
" ALL ABOARD "... the "margetta ville express"...
sounds like a fun train excursion "QG 48"...
Okay Brian, All aboard the squiggly express to margetta ville'.. Very cool' thanks for posting' your contributions'...
think I was seeing things this morning after that train ride last night... 
No smoke and only mirrors. I use mirrors to allow added depth to parts of my layout. 
I enjoy taking photos at ground level allowing the photo to be viewed just as if one were standing there in person. 
great shots Patrick
briansilvermustang posted:
think I was seeing things this morning after that train ride last night...
Wow Brian, that is a very cool picture'.. Is that a photo shop configuration'?
Nice to see the thread getting some TRACTIVE EFFORT'.. Thanks Brian and Trumptrain for your terrific photos'..
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