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[ljudice]

OK, here's some recent modelling - that's a Kato C40-9W with a Mark4design cab, my kitbashed Atlas caboose to match a DODX nuclear escort car and my three scratchbuilt DODX nuclear fuel canister carrier cars.  Yep, handlaid track with ballast made from site visits and crushed in my custom made scale stone crusher.



Just kidding, a real photo, photoshopped using tilt-shift techniques to make it look like a model.... 

[Kisatchie]

Very nice photo. I've read about the tilt-shift technique, but it didn't matter... the photographs I've seen all look real but with selective blurring.

[ljudice]

I've seen some amazing results - my try was pretty pathetic by comparison and was really more to draw a laugh or two...

[up1950s]

The thing that gives it away , other than no MTL trip pins is the blur is by depth up from the bottom , and depth down from the top , which left a too clear image of the distant boxcar on the center left side . I think less blur would have been better .

[Dave V]

You know, what's funny is that it almost looks like Code 80...!

Someone over at MR forums linked to a website with these types of photos, and it clearly explained what it was, yet a whole mess of self-appointed expert opinions lambasted the photography and the "modeling!"

[Chris333]

Here is one at the top:
http://www.bronx-terminal.com/index.php?cat=3&paged=39
bottom pic here:
http://www.bronx-terminal.com/index.php?cat=3&paged=59
top:
http://www.bronx-terminal.com/index.php?cat=3&paged=60

[up1950s]

Here is one at the top:
http://www.bronx-terminal.com/index.php?cat=3&paged=39
bottom pic here:
http://www.bronx-terminal.com/index.php?cat=3&paged=59
top:
http://www.bronx-terminal.com/index.php?cat=3&paged=60

Geez those are the smallest high detailed houses i've ever seen .

[TrainCat2]

Look at the examples on the A-Board

http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=46416

That MRL shot is almost believable

[wcfn100]

If you can find a shot taken at a high angle and some distance away, you can really get a good effect.  I did this one to try out the technique but it's to close to the subject to really trick anyone, but enough to make people stare for a while if you first tell them it's a model.


Originally a Greg Smith photo.


Jason

[John]

I don't understand why you would take photoshop to turn a good picture into a crappy picture   .. they now look like typical NERail pics

[tom mann]

.. they now look like typical NERail pics

Can you turn these guys into models?

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?2005060523414222847.jpg

[ljudice]

I've tried similar techniques on people - and specifically on virtual people with very poor results!!!

As mentioned high angle shots are really the best...  Google tilt shift photoshop for tips... BTW, the Gaussian Blur filter is the equivalent of lens blur for those with older versions.

Lou

[DKS]

.. they now look like typical NERail pics

Can you turn these guys into models?

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?2005060523414222847.jpg

[Chris333]

All those guys standing around and no one will fix that roof  ???  :-*

[Mark5]

You know, what's funny is that it almost looks like Code 80...!

I'd have to be pretty drunk to think that.