Am I imagining this? Did (or does) one of the purveyors of building fronts offer backgrounds, that, when aligned with their fronts, match up to give a 3D effect of depth and elongation of the building front?
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I won’t pretend to be the end all be all source but I’ve never seen or heard of that. There’s a lot of flats that come with short sidewalls so that they’re not just front walls, but I can’t say I’ve ever seen one that has a backdrop to make the effect.
@Mark V. Spadaro posted:Am I imagining this? Did (or does) one of the purveyors of building fronts offer backgrounds, that, when aligned with their fronts, match up to give a 3D effect of depth and elongation of the building front?
Ameritown had an insert to show an "interior" for thier front flats. The inserts were of separate sale than the front flats.
Not sure where I saw it, but I believe there was a gentleman, perhaps a professional photographer, who was able to shoot actual outside scenes and print the photos in large format and assemble and mount them on his layout as a background in a manner so as to give a three-dimensional aspect to the building fronts and layout.
Shooting the scenes from outside to get a 3D non-perspective view would require a Paralex camera raised to the height of each window. If you shoot from below, the print would be very distorted without that type of camera.
Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight.
That's a tricky thing to do even for a professional photographer. If you had a drone with a camera, I guess it could be done.
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Makes some nice ones. Pricey but they look good. I used the foam flats and attached them to wood and painted the tops and sides black. Good from far but far from good.
@prrhorseshoecurve posted:Ameritown had an insert to show an "interior" for thier front flats. The inserts were of separate sale than the front flats.
Ameritowne still HAS them, and they are FREE!
CLICK HERE to see and download them for printing.
@Rich Melvin posted:Ameritowne still HAS them, and they are FREE!
CLICK HERE to see and download them for printing.
Sorry Rich, I also have those one end of my layout. They look better than my foam flats, especially weathered.
