For The Fun Of It

Great photos...great scenes!

Your second photo is amazing!

Eliot, I like the photo's. I like the first one the best with the ATSF CRANE. Thanks for sharing with us.

Really nice shots!  Scenes like this really bring life and a sense of local character to a layout.

Aaron

love these shots. the depth of field effect on the first one is outstanding!

jerrman

i use an iPad and the detail is superb...and if captioning #1, I would put:

 

"Ain't it break time yet?".

 

Well done.

Outstanding photo of workers in the ashpit Elliot. The modeling itself is also excellent.

You are definitely a pro. Great pictures.

Great photos, #2 is my favorite.

nice work

what camera is used?

Eliot - On the SF Crane shot - Could you possibly provide us with the camera, lens and f-stop?  Also, did you use any "trick" software, like the programs that allow you to combine multiple shots taken from different focal points?

 

Thank you.

 

Pete

Thanks, all of you, for the kind words.

Doing the photography is truly a joy. As I have built the layout I found that the scenery prpjects and the photography were great souvenirs of the fun I was having. Almost like going on a trip and bringing back a fond memory. Some of them, like photo #1, were kind of serendipitous. I placed the camera by the roundhouse to see if the backdrop was in place and realized the crane made a cool scene.

 

For both photos I used a Canon 5D MKll with a 17-40 mm lens and ordinary room light.

The camera was set to f22 for about .5 seconds at ISO 5000. I use Nik DFine to smooth out graininess at high ISO's. I could have also shot at ISO 100 for 20 or thirty seconds but I broke my cable release and needed to use the timer. No trick photography nor Photoshop layering was used. The depth of field seems greater because of the perspective of the city background in the distance. In that shot the backdrop was placed 1 foot beyond the table end and about 5 feet behind the crane.

 

Scrappy