Here's a shot, indoors at our last show of Steve Shuleman's Prarie Town Module with the set of Rock Island Loco's currently doing interchange duty there. With Loren's mass of grey and green towering layouts and my Albino unfinished end module as a frame, his layout crew a lot of interest and comments. Cheers Joe MTL
Hi, is it OK if I join in? I decided to build a small scenic oval to run some of my trains round, here is where I am up to. My camera is not ideal, this is the best of a bad lot! Thanks, Phil
Welcome to Trainboard Phil. I agree with Robert. Very nice job on the rocks. Now we want to see more of the layout. Jurg, the Cabforward looks awesome. Joe, That is a picture of small town USA.
Hey welcome to trainboard Phil! I know how hard it is to take pictures, not a bad shot at all for your first one. It definately looks like you got some great Rock formations. I can't wait to see the finished look!
As long as the camera has a true reduced aperature (the hole behind the lense), you can take a better depth-of-focus picture. Most basic digital cameras can not do it this way. Most use a multi-exposure overlay from many sequenced focus depths (Helicon software principle). Better digital cameras (usually several hundered dollars) can physically reduce the aperature, like classic mechanical cameras. Either way, it takes a longer time to take these pictures so a tripod is normally required or, a lot of light to help keep each sequence of shots "lined up" so they overlap farily accurately (Helicon software will compensate for this, mechanical aperature reduction [e.g. f:11 vs wide open f:2] does not as it is a single long exposure) So try and use Aperature mode instead of Program or Auto mode and you will get a much better depth-of-foucs pix ! (Torsja, I like that last shot ! ) .
