I just noticed this on Rail Pics. Thought it looked liked a model layout someone on the forum has
Enjoy
Lee
I just noticed this on Rail Pics. Thought it looked liked a model layout someone on the forum has
Enjoy
Lee
Lotsa matchsticks in that trestle. Actually very realistic except for the gaudy color of the trees.
In case anyone wants to know this is a picture by David Lehlbach of Lapwai Canyon at Culdsac Idaho on Sept / 22/ 2000. The railroad may not be operating anymore.
Yes, mother nature has some pretty colors.
Enjoy
Lee
Thanks for posting that Lee.
That looks like a fun scene to model.
Derek
Given that they’re real trees, they define realistic.
The railroad is the Camas Prairie
Just took a quick satellite view - the trestle is a couple of miles east of Culdesac, but about fifteen miles by rail! The trestle is still there, the map function shows the railroad continuing to the south and east, but there doesn’t seem to be any rail on the roadbed starting a few miles southeasteast of town.
However, in the immediate vicinity of the town there appear to be stored grain hoppers on the rails.
The abandoned part of the line had some serious tunnels and several large trestles, most of which are still in place. It looks as if it would be interesting to model.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
A curved bridge?
Oh, noes!
[;)]
…and the engines need some weathering!!
…and that tunnel portal is a little on the crude side.
Lotsa matchsticks in that trestle. Actually very realistic except for the gaudy color of the trees.
I’ll confess, I had the same reaction. Why would anyone position bright green trees against an unrealistic red hillside?
Reassures me there truly is “a prototype for everything!”
Rick Krall
Well, looking at the over-saturation of the yellow color on the locomotives, I’m guessing there has been some artificial (eg digital) enhancement of the brightness but mostly the contrast. That would account for the harsh, unnatural looking colors .
Well, looking at the over-saturation of the yellow color on the locomotives, I’m guessing there has been some artificial (eg digital) enhancement of the brightness but mostly the contrast. That would account for the harsh, unnatural looking colors .
Sunset photo, judging by the extreme low west light. Weak in blues, harsh and very natural where the air is clear and the humidity is relatively low.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - where the humidity is too high to allow similar lighting)
Well, looking at the over-saturation of the yellow color on the locomotives, I’m guessing there has been some artificial (eg digital) enhancement of the brightness but mostly the contrast. That would account for the harsh, unnatural looking colors .
It sure looks doctored to me.
Yeah, bright light, but also modified with high dynamic range.
–Randy
Sunset photo, judging by the extreme low west light. Weak in blues, harsh and very natural where the air is clear and the humidity is relatively low.
Autumn in my part of the interior west has colors much like this photo as well. If there’s any editing, including use of HDR, it hasn’t changed the colors much. The conifers look like they may be Douglas-fir, which can be bright green under sunset lighting, and the yellow grass and red/purple scrub vegetation look like they naturally would.
[8D]
One has to remember this is probably a 13 year old slide that has been converted to digital, and may have lost a some fidelity in translation.
[:D] enjoy
Lee
Yeah, bright light, but also modified with high dynamic range.
–Randy
I don’t see any dynamic range other than that of the single exposure this image was shot with. If the photo was doctored at all, it would have been tone mapped to saturate the colors and increase contrast.
But as pointed out above, if it was a digital capture of an old slide, the compressed data of that image can do some funky things with the colors. Especially if saved in a format that isn’t lossless and if the native size of the photo/file is small.
But, no, no HDR in this photo.
Yes, those trees are definetly not right, and the ground cover just looks too dense, please rip out that section of the layout and try to a bit more “realistic” this time…[;)][:-,][:-^]