[color=red]Lucas[/color], went down late this afternoon and gave your suggestion a try. In the right place, that would have worked great! I have to remember that trick… Unfortunately that won’t fit in there in any way I can use it for the photo… I only have one portable mirror here, The big trouble is that the lower track under the bridge is in a long cut going to the tunnel to staging.
I will just have to do what I can with the equipment I have. I took a couple more photos with the 2-6-6-2 up near the bridge, and I think when I go back down and put some boxcars behind the old girl I will have very good photo to enter… The coal drag doesn’t show up at all.
Janie, a cup of decaf would hit the spot right now, it would!
I went over to the body shop after lunch today and the owner got his shop foreman to come right out and take a look at it… He gave me the estimate while I waited. I was right, the bumper is all of $240. But… there is the painting, and all the odds and ends parts that go with it. The estimate came to $1,000. So I drove right around the corner and stopped at my insurance company and talked to the lady there who handles my account. She made a copy of the estimate, asked about a dozen or questions for the claim, assured me this is not enough to make a difference on my insurance costs, and said I should have a go ahead tomorro… Opps, they are closed tomorrow for Good Friday. I should hear on Monday. The Body Shop said they will order the bumper as soon as I let them know, and they should have it ready to install within a couple weeks. The installation can be done in just a couple hours. They will give me a ride home and will come back and pick me up when it is done.
Well… I think I finally have the photo I want to enter in the Model Railroad Photo contest in the Convention Contest room… I think this one will work!
Does anybody have any idea what Ken Patterson (professional model railroader writer, photographer, videographer for a different publication) is doing when he takes a pic for an Athearn ad and with the camera on a tripod, takes multiple shots while changing the focus. I am ignorant of photo shop but he talks about depth of field, so there must be some process to intergrate mulitple pictures with different things in and out of focus.
Good morning … Coffee and a hot cross bun, please.
Ray … That software is the way to go to improve depth of field. However, I have never tried it. The learning curve is probably too steep for my little brain. … LOL
Yeah, but it’s a cold dreary morning. One of those “Is the sun really up?” mornings.
I had a good time listening to the band at the bar and sitting with the “groupies” who comprise much of the audience. These bands aren’t in it for the money. At least last night there were more people in the audience than in the band. The band is a keyboard player, a guitar player, a guy who switches from guitar to mandolin to violin repeatedly and a stand-up string bass player. 3 of them are accomplished vocalists as well. Everyone had a great time. They’re all in their sixties, or close to it.
Galaxy… try logging in with your old name and your OLD password. Before you changed it. Turns out they were able to grandfather in the old passwords, but the file they used for that was exported before a lot of people changed theirs. (Me included.) So you can probably log into your old account with your previous password. Once you’ve done that, it will be a lot easier for you to investigate the e-mail discrepancy.
We are enjoying our typical Easter holdays weather, i.e. lots of wind and ra*n. No signs of improvement in sight - yuck!
My friend Lothar came over for a sip of coffee and a taste of Petra´s Easter holiday cake. We used the time to install the curved backdrop, which took only, say, 15 minutes, plus 5 minutes to find out why the trains wouldn´t pass througfh it and another 2 minutes to get the saw out and enlarge the opening a bit. It sure was one of those “Duh!” moments for me [:$]
I don´t know yet whether I like the backdrop - yet. Due to the curvature, the upper ends are bending outward slightly, which looks terrible, even if it´s only 1/2" off the vertical on each side. Tomorrow, I´ll get some lumber to reinforce the edges, mount lugs and pull the upper ends inside fish a stretch of fishing line. When that´s done, I will post a picture here to collect your [Y] or [N] on the job!
I am also pondering to go for a picture backdrop instead of the rather bland blue sky.
Thanks Mr. Otte, sorry for the hot headed responses on galaxy1-but I KNEW someone would read it and pass it on, I MAY delete that one AFTER I change the password here. I KNEW my email was NOT invalid, BUT…I have A Q: if the OLD password worked with the OLD email, WHY did it tell me my EMAIL {NOT password} was invalid when I asked it to send a password reminder???
TO bring others up to speed, it auto-logged me out, and when I tried to log in with new password, it wouldn’t. WHen I asked for a password reminder, It Said MY EMAIL was invalid,yet I knew MR had that email as i had gotten a sales email that very day a few hours ahead of trying to log back in. SO I knoew it was correct.
I signed on under a new name,and sent my first post FUMMING.
The reason I was so fuming was the SAME THING happened with my mortgage account the SAME day! STIll waiting for them to fix it as I am locked out of my mortgage account!
SO I WAS doubly er ah shall we say angry?
GRR
Went flower shopping, and bought a real live actual will produce for drinking…LEMON tree…very pretty, and the lemon flower is so sweet, but the fruit of the poor lemon is a treat to eat…it is more of a bush than a tree now but has buds and little lomon budlets forming!!! Among some african violets, a new red croton {to go with my multicolored red/green/yellow croton {my favorite}, an orchid cactus…and sooe potting soil
Chloe, another cup of decaf would be great at the moment… Spent most of the day so far babysitting my two favorite little girls, who were, of course, wonderful to sit for and play with…
Got home from that to find a message on my machine from my insurance company about the claim I filed yesterday. Only took me about 5 listens to get the information I needed to be able to call back and talk to the lady who is my claims adjuster… She had all the same questions and a few more that I was asked yesterday, and I had a good answer for each of them. About the biggest I didn’t get asked yesterday was, “Is the car safe to drive?” I answered, Yep, took it to the dealers on Wednesday and they did a complete inmspection of the car and said all it needs is the new bumper. So She was going to call the Body Shop and give them the go ahead so they can order the parts and get this started. I did tell the lady that the last time I had a claim was over 40 years ago and this was a lot easier.
[color=red]Garry[/color], I haven’t found any need to use a image program like that as the EOS Digital Rebel set on the highest f-Stop for the distance is basically a pin hole camera. The photo I put in here last night was a 30 sec. exposure.
Hmmm. why is the air in the back Blue??? Oh [color=red]Galaxy[/color] had trouble with his login… I never had to log out… Wasn’t asked for anything else so I guess I am good to go.
I’m busy doing a few final prints of the entries for the Region Contests. Catch you all later!
The day is coming to an end and I shall be heading for they hay in a few moments. I am with the forum now exactly 7 years and have posted 8,092 times to it. That makes 1,156 post per year or a little over 3 post per day - quite a lot!
Short answer… I don’t know. I push pencils, not bits and bytes [:S] I’m just the one unlucky enough to be easy to get hold of [:D] Anyone still having trouble at this stage should e-mail Customer Service at their new address, ModelRailroader@CustomerSvc.com.
But I will spare you (and everyone else) some more trouble by passing on something that we all learned AFTER writing that oh-so-helpful sticky post… [%-)] the new higher-security password requirements only take effect IF you decide to change your password. If you don’t want to change your password, you don’t have to, even if it wouldn’t meet the new requirements – you’re grandfathered in.
The only thing everyone HAS to do is re-login from scratch the next time they visit after the changeover took effect.
Very quick Hello from the motel in Motel in Moncton. Ulrich - fishline is an excellent solution. On the last layout I used a hook on the ceiling and a length of line to hold up the end of a cantelevered layout feature which was beggining to sag. IIRC I ran the line skywards through a convenient street light!
First, good to see you came back to rejoin us! we’ miss you!
Second, I have about 1000 posts more’n you. But I have been here about 3 years longer, sometimes I just had nothing to say…
Its not a contest, but I’d like to see 10 grand in posts fo nonsense from me! That was another reason I was SO er um ah angry that it told me my email was invalid.
Howmus, looks like an interesting program. I had no idea what terms to search. Frankly I was big into film photography and never attacked learning digital photography with any degree of perservance. I guess my macro Nikor is 44 years old. If I did a lot of model photography I’d definitely get that program though.
Ulrich Good to see you back. Exactly what is Petra’s Easter cake? My mom always used to make ham for easter, which was alway too salty. Now that I’m in charge, I am going to make my second rib roast ever. For dessert I am making Brandy Alexander Pie. Nothing healthy about it. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/magazine/29food.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0
Didn’t get much done today. A forum member invited me to Mainline Hobbies, an exceptionally well stocked train store, but they forecasted morning rain and I didn’t want to deal with that for a nearly 3.5 hour round trip. The rain didn’t happen till early afternoon. I did cut the end tie off all my turnouts, getting ready to start laying track.
Do not buy the Harbor Freight imitation Exacto blade set. It looks great with a couple dozen blades of various shapes and 3 or 4 handles. The blades break on the 4th or 5th cut and fly like pieces of a Takata airbag.
Pretty much a nothing day. No good or bad just the same old stuff.
YGW Guess you are busy. I have sent you 3 PM’s. You should have the package Saturday. Be on the look out for some C&O decales I think where still in the box I sent.
I had to log in for the 1st time in a long time the other day and I used my old password, no trouble so far.
Sat. 84 Sun. 77 Mon. 67
The big church I go to each Easter rents a big tent, its 50,000 sq. ft. tha biggest tent in the nation. I think it’s modular and they can add to it. We get 20,000 people, we have the parking is one reason why.
I am a regular at Fri. morning bulletin stuffing, we put inserts into the bulletins, normal is 6,000 bulletins. Around 40 volunteers, were done in about an hour and a half or 2 hours. Lots of talking and I have friends.
Today though for Easter we have a bigger slick paper bulletin and every bulletin gets a pen for the sermon notes.
Our weather guessers were utterly wrong in their prediction of today´s weather. It´s not dull and rainy, but bright and sunny - what a boost to my spirit!
I was able to shoot a couple of pictures of my layout without using the flash or the tripod. The pictures show the backdrop without the corrections made. I will have to get a bit of lumber and a couple of lugs before I can do that. I will ask Petra to take me to our DIY place later in the day.
Here are the pictures:
Henry - Petra´s Easter cake is just any cake she makes when it´s Easter. This time it´s a lemon cake. She does make cakes and pies often these days. We can feast on a cake for a whole week if she does and that gets a bit too much cake eating [+o(]
Galaxy - great you were able to re-enter this place.
