Weekend Photo Fun - It’s a weekly thread where it’s understood that you can post a few pictures and the feedback will be positive, friendly, and/or constructive. It’s a lot of fun and we get some really nice work on here every week. They are even nice to me.
While we are on explanations, can someone please tell me why the ‘Weekend Photo fun’ section covers 3 days (72 hours). I thought there were only two days on a weekend. I finish work Friday arvo then the weekend starts at midnight.
I’m not complaining as we have an extra day to get the photos in.
We just finished a three day weekend here (called a long weekend) where my footy team won the grand final and I attended the major annual model rail exhibition here in Sydney.
I enjoy viewing this thread each weekend.
Bob
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It might be so that we model railroaders (…eh, well some of us) try to extend the weekend with the Friday afternoon and the early Monday morning…[:-^]
Or is it just that we live in different time Zone?
A good thing can not be extended too much! Lets start a new thread about what’s a weekend?
On the other hand there are some very nice photos here, I especially enjoyed shayfan’s Jordan vehicles and Gramphy’s mine! I get inspired!
A prison detail is out to help keep a crossover from being taken over by nature. The guards are out of camera view.
This coaling station is being made over into a heavily weathered structure. It will have a partially collapsed wall and pieces of the heavily rusted roof gone. The rest of the roof will appear as if ready to cave in at the slightest touch. Work on it is going slowly. I have close to six projects in front of me at this time.
WPF often runs 4 and sometimes 5 days! Being retired, WPF starts Friday & runs to Thursday!! [:D]
THIS weekend here in the USA is an official “three day weekend” as Monday is Columbus Day, a holiday.
Add the “official” start of Weekend Photo Fun on Friday, and there is a real potential for four days of Weekend Photo Fun!!!
Oh, my!
Jeffery: Speaking of structure projects (and having a lot of in-progress projects), I just received some structure kits in the mail to work on.
One is a Pikestuff single-stall enginehouse, which is in the Kitbasher series, meaning I’ll have to cut the door and window openings myself… Didn’t know that when I ordered the kit! It should be a fun project though!
The other is a IHC cement plant, which by the way is NOT the same as the Faller one, to my knowledge. They have the same design, but the IHC one comes assembled and is a total snap-together kit. It looks like the $4.99 that it cost… But it will be a good kit to try my hand at super-detailing and kitbashing. The current cement plant location in New Poland has the track right next to a steep embankment with the mainline on top, so I’ll have to modify the loading area to fit. I’ll keep you posted with photos and such.
Also in the order was 25 Caboose Hobbies ground throws, which I will install on every turnout on the layout. This should seriously reduce derailments, which will be very nice… I’ve already installed one, and shortly I’ll be headed into the basement to do some more.
And while on the subject of lots of projects, I still have several ones in progress, including the yard, three water areas, and a scratchbuilt intermodal flat based on the Southern Railway’s flats built from surplus 50-foot boxcars.
Yep! When you are retired there are 6 Saturdays and one Sunday in every week. So WPF can be all week long…[;)]
I don’t have a government job so I will be working on Monday. However, I usually don’t work on Friday, hence, a three day weekend. 
Sue
An area on my layout I’m still working on, along with ballasting the yard, weathering rolling stock etc etc.
Did I say I hate ballasting track?
Jarrell
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Hi Jarrell: Very nice! It looks pretty complete to me. Who doesn’t hate ballasting, except maybe Cody from MRR? The lighting is great in this shot. I’m still experimenting with lighting, haven’t found a good method, yet.
Thanks Grampy! Yep, Cody crossed my mind when I was doing some ballasting just this morning. I was wishing he was here! Grampy, at present I have an advantage when it comes to lighting over most of you. I used to do a lot of wedding photography and still have a 4 unit pro light set from those days. I almost always use only one of those for mrr photos. It’s on a light stand that I can adjust up and down and easily move around. That said, I’ve done many pictures in my time using a simple ‘work light’, the kind with the metal reflector and a clamp. I used a wooden pole on a base and the pole was about 6 1/2 feet tall and I’d clamp the work light on it and move it around, usually at about a 45 degree angle camera to subject axis. I then set the camera on timer and while it’s counting down I use a piece of white typing paper, cardboard etc. and hold it just out of camera view on the opposite side from the light. This reflects some light back into those really dark shadow areas. It really helps to have the camera on a tripod or some other means of support for this. In fact, it absolutely vital because of the longish shutter speed necessary for correct exposure. A regular household light bulb in the worklight will work fine, but they give off a very reddish light that will need to be corrected with a computer program OR in the camera when the photo is made by adjusting the white balance.
Doing pictures this way I use aperture priorty mode on the camera and set the camera to a small lens opening, such as f7 or 8 so that I get the max depth of field that I can.
Anyway, that’s probably a lot more than you wanted to know… [:-^]
Jarrell
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Hi Jarrell: Very nice! It looks pretty complete to me. Who doesn’t hate ballasting, except maybe Cody from MRR? The lighting is great in this shot.
Neat photos as usual, this weekend.
Here’s my contribution–a little too windy and cold to actually work on a garage layout out here in SunnyCal, so I’ve just been running trains.
Here’s my big 2-10-2 #1408 with a freight running along the North Yuba River just west of the Buttes. She’s a PSC model of a Rio Grande F-81 and she hauls like a team of oxen! I get a real ‘bang’ out of her little Vandy tender, though. That’s how they came from Alco in 1916.
Tom [:)]
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Hey, Tom. That’s a great photo of your 2-10-2! Wow!
I posted a couple of pictures in WPF last night. I meant to include a Work-In-Progress shot, too. I am extending the layout “eastward”. Friends helped me build some benchwork this past week. I am connecting my around-the-wall layout to thise bench work. I will have a two level reverse curve. The upper level will have part of city, and more city will be added to the right.
The layout is being built in sections in case of an eventual move to another location.
Ray.
<> You forgot to tell everyone that retirement isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be 'cause we don’t get any days off now. The “Honey Do List” comes into effect 7 days a week. [swg]
Blue Flamer.
I believe it was last yr I tried to make a Mid Week Photom Fun thread or something on that line and no one continued it.
Hi Jarrell: I was hoping you would reveal some of your secrets in regard to your lighting. Thank you for the tips, very enlightening, pardon the pun. Tom, another great shot from you this week. Garry, looks like you’ve got some work ahead of you, looking good!
Good looking weekend. I will have to get my camera out, and get some shots of my stuff.