Got up this morning and took a few shots....as I have posted over the years here on the forum, sunlight coming into the train room makes for some interesting contrasts in light and shadow.....double click on each photo to get the full effect....( just updated and added more pictures, scroll down to the 1-28 post )
Thanks for looking!!
Alan
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Especially like that Interstate.
Very nice!
My layout is in my basement as I'm sure many members layout's are. I get a little early morning sun through one window.
RSJB18 posted:Very nice!
My layout is in my basement as I'm sure many members layout's are. I get a little early morning sun through one window.
What's a basement?
One of the downsides of living in the south ... the high water table. My crawlspace is literally maybe 20 inches high in many spots. Everyone that has to work under my house (what, me get under there? It's too tight!) complains about it (and probably then jacks up the prices). I haven't seen a full, finished basement since my parents moved us out of Queens in 1984.
My layout is also in the basement at my house, but my basement only has 2 windows total in it, neither of which are seen by my train layout. I see areas for old coal chutes, and things like that. That is what one gets when you buy a house that was built in 1927.
Gotta love those pics. That is always something I do enjoy seeing and loved the old magazine pics where they tried simulating sunlight and moonlight. Great pics, thanks for sharing.
For those of you that don't have windows in your train room, you may want to consider purchasing a couple of photo floods or something similar. On occasion, I have used "artificial" sunlight using floods on the layout and get very good results. For me, the photography part of this hobby is almost as enjoyable as running the trains!
Lookin good as always Alan.
Excellent!
Peter
Alan,
You have truly captured a moment in time. The sun won't be in the same position again for 364 more days. And maybe next year it will be overcast!
This is wonderful.
Lou N
Lou...I had not thought of it that way!! Great observation!
Alan
Hi My friend ,
I have to say FINALLY !!!! i get to see pics of your layout. Everything looks awesome especially with the sun hitting it
Thanks, Alex
I haven't seen a full, finished basement since my parents moved us out of Queens in 1984.
Deuce- won't hold the fact that you left Queens against you (probably a wise move). The Mets jersey makes sense now 
HI Alan: Cool topic • I have to make sun with two studio lights.
This photo shows me working on a YT video, for a green screen segment. I also use these soft boxes for filming the layout.
(2) - 24 inch soft boxes with colored corrected lights to 5500 Kelvin
Camera: Canon T6i • Lens 18 to 55 mm • With a skylight filter
(2) - LED Studio Lights • 3 x 5 inches • Color corrected • removable soft box (not shown in photo)
Hope this helps: Gary
Alan
It's NOT just the SUN that makes your layout look so good!!!
Excellent, looking GREAT. I have to introduce you to the Editor of OGR.
Gerry
In this short video, the sunlight nicely brightens the trees, AF station, locomotive, coal dump cars & caboose:
Here are a few more as the early morning sun rises.....
Alan
Very nice. I used to wait until late afternoon to take a lot of my layout photos. The light streaming in made all the difference.
Alan, nice pics!! UP's yard looks real good-
OGR PUBLISHER posted:Here are a few more as the early morning sun rises.....
Awesome pictures!
Alan, thanks for sharing your awesome layout with us again. I don't know when you can find the time to do everything, but it is great. Your layout is the epitome of large, big city modeling with your scratch-built skyscrapers.
Your natural light pictures make me think that maybe I should let the light in my windows instead of covering it up, at least for picture taking purposes. I just realized our layouts are at opposite ends of the spectrum in many ways. I model Midwestern countrysides with small towns and you do big city Chicago with all it's grandeur.
Good to see you able to spend a little time on the forum again and share pictures of your fabulous layout.
Art
Alan, the first photo, the handcar on the roundhouse track, who makes that handcar ?
Thank you.
Arthur posted:Alan, the first photo, the handcar on the roundhouse track, who makes that handcar ?
Thank you.
Arthur...that handcar is a Woodland Scenics product. It came with the crew you see...
A postwar Baltimore & Ohio 626 is aglow from the morning sun. So are the train cars and scenery:
"There's a bright golden haze on the meadow:"
From the song Oh What a Beautiful Morning by Rogers & Hammerstein.
My layout is around the walls in our bedroom. Sometimes I wake up just as the sunrise lights up the layout.
Here are a few new ones as of this morning.....
Great pics!
Peter
Spectacular!
Thanks guys!.....here is another one.....
OGR PUBLISHER posted:Thanks guys!.....here is another one.....
Alan, that picture is stunning!
Arnold
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