Am I Blue? How about You?

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Cellphone upside down so that the camera is directly above the rail top. Then yes multiple photos at multiple depths and focus-stacking after.

The track is handlayed also, which adds to it.

Anyone know of an image stacking app for iphone?

[DKS]

[Philip H]

Anyone know of an image stacking app for iphone?

Ditto.  Every one I've seen recently seems to focus on android.

[bbussey]

Anyone know of an image stacking app for iphone?

I just export the cellphone photos to the laptop. I have an iPhone8 and 10. I got the 10 on the cheap and use it exclusively for photography and hi-rez video. For photos I position the camera, usually landscape, so the lens is about 1/4” above the rail top, which is roughly 4 scale feet so it works out well.  But portrait works well in tight spaces, as there are enough megapixels to allow cropping to a landscape frame and still have good resolution.

[bnsfdash8]

A little black and blue

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[TMatt253]

@bbussey so if I understand correctly, you just take the same picture multiple times but you adjust the focus to bring each aspect into detail? I have been using my iPhone to take pictures and the focus has frustrated me a ton! It never occurred to me to stack various resolutions into a clearer photo.

Trevor

[peteski]

@bbussey so if I understand correctly, you just take the same picture multiple times but you adjust the focus to bring each aspect into detail? I have been using my iPhone to take pictures and the focus has frustrated me a ton! It never occurred to me to stack various resolutions into a clearer photo.

Trevor

Yes, this is a common technique to increase depth of field. Do a forum search for "focus stacking" and "Helicon Focus".  There are few older threads about these.  I have been using Helicon Focus for over 10 years.

[bbussey]

@bbussey so if I understand correctly, you just take the same picture multiple times but you adjust the focus to bring each aspect into detail? I have been using my iPhone to take pictures and the focus has frustrated me a ton! It never occurred to me to stack various resolutions into a clearer photo.

Trevor,

You can force the iPhone to focus where you want by touching and holding your finger on a spot on the screen to lock the focus and aperture.  Just keep locking on objects in view at various depths.  I usually focus on objects 1/2 to 1 inches apart.  This results in 20 to 30 photos, or more.  But it insures you will have every object in focus

[TMatt253]

I will definitely give this a try! 

[milw12]

Conrail, what's a midwestern boy to do 



The only blue that blows my skirt up 

Lucas

[ChristianJDavis1]

Some Conrail, but the rest I own I didn't have with me.

[Sharky_McSharknose]

I have several Big Blue engines, but my favorites are my one Scaletrains C39-8 and two Atlas B40-8s. I converted one of the B-boats to LokSound. The below video was taken at this year's Bay State Model Railroad Museum open house with the C-boat and DCC B-boat on the point of a Tank-Train (skip to 6:32 for a brief shot).

I weathered that same B-boat, here's a picture of it next to my other, almost stock B40-8.