Morning Fog scenes

get a dance floor fog machine.

Dry ice and a fan?

gandydancer1950 posted:

Can anyone tell me how they take photos of their hi-rail layouts with a morning fog or mist as a part of the scene? This is the best I have come up with so far.....

That's pretty good.  You might consider checking with your local fire department to see the machine they use to train children on how to leave a smoky, burning building.  I know Richfield and Bath share a trailer where they show the school children how to crawl safely out.  They use a fluid that is part water and part non flammable non toxic emulsifier (I'm keeping within Rich's rules about mentioning the contents of smoke fluid). 

A story to go along with this.  Al Staufer (author and railroader) lived about 10 minutes west of me and had a 2 story building with the studio on the first floor and the layout on the second floor (maybe you have been there; I see you are local).  He told me his oil furnace went bezerk and filled the building with white smoke.  He said that was the best opportunity he had to take train layout pictures that looked like a foggy environment.

Lou N 

Lou N posted:

gandydancer1950 posted:

Can anyone tell me how they take photos of their hi-rail layouts with a morning fog or mist as a part of the scene? This is the best I have come up with so far.....

That's pretty good.  You might consider checking with your local fire department to see the machine they use to train children on how to leave a smoky, burning building.  I know Richfield and Bath share a trailer where they show the school children how to crawl safely out.  They use a fluid that is part water and part non flammable non toxic emulsifier (I'm keeping within Rich's rules about mentioning the contents of smoke fluid). 

A story to go along with this.  Al Staufer (author and railroader) lived about 10 minutes west of me and had a 2 story building with the studio on the first floor and the layout on the second floor (maybe you have been there; I see you are local).  He told me his oil furnace went bezerk and filled the building with white smoke.  He said that was the best opportunity he had to take train layout pictures that looked like a foggy environment.

Lou N 

Thanks Lou!

Go to 2:28 in this video and you can see the program I use. I can make it move: fast, slow, right, left, heavy or light. Another way to do it, if you have an air brush, just spray some white mist on a piece of glass. Mount the glass and back off. Shoot through the glass so the "fog" is slightly out of focus. This is how they did a lot of shots in the old movies, called glass matts. Also, if you send me a high quality picture I can see if I can transfer it to video and do my fog program on it. Then make a still frame. Don

One of those humidifiers you would use in a child's room when they are sick could be used to create a fog effect.  In fact; I recollect in a TM video a fellow using one of these instead of smoke units in a riverboat on his layout.  You would need to use distilled water though.

Curt

I used my fog machine, with two outputs hidden under the layout, for these two pix taken as the lights are getting brighter.

TonkaNut posted:

 

I used my fog machine, with two outputs hidden under the layout, for these two pix taken as the lights are getting brighter.

That is stunning!  Wowwwwww! 

smoke fog.......

.....use the engine smoke to create a fog scene......

The current On30 magazine has an article on how......

Hook up a Lionel 27 ohm smoke unit to track power and put the voltage up to 19 or 20 and you'll get a ton of smoke / fog. 

Or use a Halloween fog machine, they sell for 20.00 dollars. Simply plug it in pour fog fluid in wait 4 to 5 minutes and you'll have a huge amount of smoke /fog. 

Alex