Roy,
Thanks, as I mentioned it took me several tries to get properly logged
in, so when it happened I was getting ready to go on assignment thus the
haste. I'll follow your link in the future.
Regarding depth of field, if you look at one of the images (CNW
switcher) you will notice it was labeled 'stack' as Roy Inman mentions.
Here I combined three images to keep "what I wanted" sharp. I really
wanted to feature the hopper, not the engine or background scene. So I
kept them out of focus. If I would have added a couple more focus
changes it would have been sharp from the nearest to furthurest point.
I shot the image with a Nikon tilt/shift 85mm lens so depth of field is
really tight. Tilting the lens to one side let me follow the plane of
the rolling stock rather than just equal distant from the lens. This is
a feature that was mostly reserved for the large format view cameras. I
only own one and they are expensive, but one more is in my bucket list.
I will have a layout feature in the next few months (fingers crossed) in
Model Railroader where nearly every shot was stacked this way. You
Pennsy guys will hopefully like this feature despite it's HO track. I
also used this technique on Bob & Brian Jackson's layout which should
follow sometime later this year.
I don't know if the majority of the point and shoot cameras will handle
this type of technique. However, the much smaller sensor size of those
cameras makes much of that unnecessary.
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
On 1/25/13 4:52 PM, Roy wrote:
Very nice. You'll probably knock their HO socks off.
They will probably tell you that you can load pictures directly to
your post instead of having links. There's an instructional video at:
http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/help/how-to-post-an-image
I hope more of us join in.
Roy Hoffman
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, Bob
Werre wrote:
>
> Since were talking coal loads, I finally got things worked out with the
> password police at Model Railroad Hobbyist. I just uploaded three
> photos someplace in their realm. It's my first time and a bit different
> to deal with.
>
> I have been trying off and on trying to log on--even their guy couldn't
> do it for awhile.
>
> Hopefully it will do some good and I challenge others to have the
Spiral
> Hill hopper visit your layout to be seen by the great unwashed HO folks.
>
> Bob Werre
>
