Hi! Here's a new type of thread, model railroad photographs in B&W! I think you can get some interesting effects, since color tends to give the scene away... Here's a lumber drag, cresting one more hill. Another one is just ahead! http://www.burnhamshops.com/sdsons/spbridge.jpg
Hi! Into a foggy evening, an SP lumber train bringing northwestern pine to hungry Southern California markets growls up the foothills in it's titanic struggle with gravity. http://www.burnhamshops.com/sdsons/spbridge2.jpg
Hi! Here we see the lumber drag, waiting clearance at a crew change point... http://www.burnhamshops.com/sdsons/splumdrg.jpg
Hi! Reaching the home terminal, our tired Conductor gets a surprise and pulls out the old Kodak for a snap before turning in... http://www.burnhamshops.com/sdsons/spbicent.jpg Photos by Richard Doramus at the SDSoNS layout in San Diego.
Hi! An SP lumber drag sits on an anonymous siding as a hot autorack clatters by somewhere in the great Southwest, waiting for it's turn on the Sunset route. It's going to be a long evening! http://www.burnhamshops.com/sdsons/spracks.jpg
Hi! On the way home from this weekend's train watching trip, I got a grab shot of an old GN hopper. Just as I pushed the camera button, the car entered the bridge and the chain link fence got in the way. The car is very rare, so I thought I'd post it... http://www.burnhamshops.com/sdsons/gnhopper.jpg (I like the shadows of the walkway on the top of the car) (Yes, it's a model)
Tony, Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't. Converting color into B&W is tricky. It seems to me you need a full-range B&W exposure--that is, a scale between white and black that is convincing. I've personally found that converting color into B&W results in many muddy mid-tones. I've had enormous troubles trying to do this conversion.
Actually, I worked the pictures to better approximate the type of images that an amateur photographer would take on a day of watching trains. Some of the pictures have had screens added over the image to look like fog, or dust. I also like to overexpose some to get the same kind of amateur effect. If it's too perfekt, it doesn't look "right". :shade:
B&W Railroad Played with this effect quite abit lately,but those look excellent Tony. Here's a early SP pic, Sepia effect is interesting too.
Tony - Beautiful B&W photography. Have a large collection of "Trains" and "Railfan" B.C. (Before Color), so a solid hit with me. Dave
excellent job on that Z-8. do you belong to any loco clubs? just wondering if that will be at any shows sometime in the future.
