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Jan Kirkwood
Crew Chief
USA
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 Posted - 02/01/2011 : 09:48:16 AM
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Beautiful pictures Danny.
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Danny Head
Fireman
USA
1752 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2011 : 10:28:10 AM
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| Thanks everyone. Dave none of my currently posted photos here on RR-Lines are HDR (multiple exposures). I do however, use Photomatix when I tone map multiple exposures. |
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mabloodhound
Fireman
USA
4616 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2011 : 11:48:41 AM
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Originally posted by Danny Head
none of my currently posted photos here on RR-Lines are HDR (multiple exposures). I do however, use Photomatix when I tone map multiple exposures.
WOW, those last ones sure look HDR quality and the Venice one with the multi-colored posts too.
Wish I could take photos like that. I do like the results I get with HDR though. |
Dave Mason
D&G RR (Dunstead & Granford) in On30
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”~Benjamin Franklin
The 2nd Amendment, America’s 1st Homeland Security
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wvrr
Fireman
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George D
Moderator
USA
9909 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2011 : 12:26:11 PM
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Ensign
Fireman
Canada
3716 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2011 : 2:09:44 PM
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Danny, simply fantastic photo's of those old trucks! They have a real organic returning to nature look about them.Thanks for sharing your work with us.
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Frederic Testard
Engineer
France
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Posted - 02/01/2011 : 4:44:51 PM
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Great textures and colors on these old cars and trucks, Danny.
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Danny Head
Fireman
USA
1752 Posts |
Posted - 02/02/2011 : 09:45:23 AM
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| Most of these images were processed with NIK software.... (plug-in to Photoshop)... Very pricey software, but worth it in my opinion. |
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kirk
Fireman
Sweden
4526 Posts |
Posted - 02/02/2011 : 10:18:54 AM
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| Stunning photos Danny!! Composition, color and digital work at its very best! |
Troels Kirk
Näsum, Sweden
http://coastline.no13.se |
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Rick
Administrator
USA
17738 Posts |
Posted - 02/02/2011 : 11:47:34 AM
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Nice series Danny.
You've really nailed how to use the NIK software. |
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deemery
Fireman
USA
3700 Posts |
Posted - 02/02/2011 : 1:28:02 PM
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Danny, I think I understand your artistic intent and your photos are very effective. But to be honest for my taste, some of the colors are a bit too bright/over saturated. That's not meant as criticism/complaint, but some personal feedback.
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leighant
New Hire
USA
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Posted - 02/04/2011 : 1:25:31 PM
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Here are some non-rail photos connected to my other "hobby," filmmaking. These are stills from a film I made in 1976-77, before "Star Wars" came out, much less "Avatar."
An American boy (now retired from submarine service in real life) and a Russian girl (really an Oklahoma Indian now a veterinary assistant in real life) look out the window of a Earth-orbit-to-moon spaceliner about to land on the moon. They are winners of the International Junior Science Contest.
Another American boy and a British girl are also winners. The spaceliner "skin" is actually styrofoam inserts from packing cartons, on the theory of "detail" that looks like "something" but not necessarily anything in particular (a technique sometime used in model building).
The space kids see a legendary but officially-denied lunar phenomenon, and their youthful instincts allow them to capture it quickly on their cameras.
This was filmed in 1976 when kids didn't have pocket digital cameras- much less 3D holographic cameras as these as supposed to be. The cameras are actually Radio Shack "project boxes." The picture is supposed to represent weightless floating in the spaceliner. Actually, the interior set was simply build sideways, the camera turned sideways and the kids looking straight up.
On moonbase Sinus Iridum ("Rainbow Bay" the most drab colorless place possible- named for the rainbow SHAPE of its mare-filled half-crater. Look it up on a lunar atlas.) The kids are shown their itinerary on a moon globe which lights up from inside with plots of their suborbital trajectories. This was filmed pre-computer-graphics through a pane of glass at a 45 degree angle like a two-way mirror. A piece of black posterboard was cut with a slit in the shape of the trajectory, reflected in the glass to line up with the globe, and another piece of black posterboard removed so the trajectory seemed to draw itself.
I can't get this to upload more at the moment. More later. |
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halrey
Engine Wiper
USA
120 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2011 : 10:36:55 PM
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Danny, very impressive, great photos!
Here are some more "Non Railroad"photos.
Coast of Maine, PEI Canada and near Ross Castle Ireland.
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leighant
New Hire
USA
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Posted - 02/04/2011 : 10:54:58 PM
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Meanwhile, back with kids on the moon (in make believe...)
The kids will be taken to various sights on the moon on a S.L.E.D. (Suborbital Lunar Expeditionary Device)- something like 3 of the Apollo LEMs stuck together to make a vehicle big as an intercity bus on stilts. This is a test shot of a "hanging minature," a large "model" about 7 feet long in one inch to the foot scale. The camera is a normal 5 foot viewing ht above the actual ground (concrete) and the model is on a minature "ground" base 5 inches (5 scale feet) below the axis of the camera. The model is 200 inches from the camera (200 scale feet) and the girl standing beside the vehicles is 205 real feet away, lined up. The background is a real building 3 stories high with sealed windows etc chosen to look like one that MIGHT be part of a sealed-pressure base on the moon. I cheated and blacked out the sky on the still photo. For a movie image, it would have required a special mask.
We built the interior of the S.L.E.D. in a Sunday School classroom...4 astronaut couches, masonite walls over 1x2 inch framing. Big crochet rings for the spacesuit collar fittings.
The Sunday School room was not big enough to build the full length of the passenger compartment, and the pilot's cockpit at the same time. We filmed everything that showed all 4 kids on astronaut couches before disassembling the back half of the compartment, moving the front half back and assembling the cockpit. We could have a view back from the pilot toward the kids, but had to angle it to show only so far back, because the rest was not there any more.
The pilot (played by magician The Amazing Edward) ferrying the kids to various sites on the moon took an unauthorized side trip. For once he had a mooncraft to himself- the kids would not know what he was doing.
But his plot crashed the S.L.E.D., he was killed and the four teenage "geniuses" were stranded on the far side of the moon- knowing they were not where they had been supposed to be.
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railphotog
Fireman
Canada
3610 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2011 : 07:02:05 AM
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In a past life, I used to photograph local area car racing, at drag and stock car tracks. That's how I got into photography.
Got back into it a bit last week, spending two days out in the cold taking photos at the Mercedes-Benz Winter Driving Academy. Drivers are given instructions and practice winter driving skills such as quick stopping, lane changing, controlling skidding, etc. Mercedes supplies a dozen different cars for them to practice with. There was a full day course, and two half day courses. The weather had warmed up slightly from the previous few days, to somewhat below freezing. Still cold standing around all day!
As they weren't really going all that fast, I needed to shoot some cars at lower shutter speeds to give the illusion of them going fast. Had to use a polarizing filter to minimise the light to shoot like this:
The cars were lettered in French like this one on one side, and in English on the other side.
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My model railroad photography website:
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Let's see some of your Non-RR Photos! Pt 2
