Rock Springs 2
Same Depot, street side.
Photo by John Busa. I bought the three depots from. He could have used focus stacking like I use EXCLUSIVELY since there is scenery that needs to be in focus over a long depth of field. It did not matter for the bare benchwork early photos; I did not even notice the extreme reaches of the scene being out of focus. I was interested only in capturing the large extent of this huge layout. But now that we have scenery and structures that deserve visual attention I shoot only focus stacked images, so that all the objects in each photo, the near objects, the far ones, and all in between are in focus.
For more details about focus staking see my Sept 2020 article in "Running Special," the add on publication of "Model Railroad Hobbyist."
Capture Date: Nov 6, 2010 12:43 PM•Views: 56
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P1001486 Bitter Creek TD1 per sheet D&B
Bitter Creek stock loading pens and ramps, mainly sheep in this dry part of Wyoming. Speeder shack and speeder, barely visible. Note the large fuel tank for it. I like the woody, even though I'm from Wyoming, so I was never into surfing.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:22 AM•Views: 59
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P1001488 Hiway OverPass Bitter Cr TD1 +D&Bshodow at OP
US 30 just west of Bitter Creek. This shows the curved backdrop throughout the lower level. All three of the turns of the main helix can be seen here. the top one connects with the upper level where the center siding is heading into Wamsutter. That photo is where this third album started.
See the next photo for a heavily post processed version of this shot.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:23 AM•Views: 57
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P1001488 Hiway OverPass Bitter Cr TD1 +D&Bshodow at OP
Same US30 photo with sundown Sky Replacement (SR) #1 of 7 sunsets packed into Luminar's library. I did extensive Clone and Stamp to smear the original sky over the bench structure before using SR.
Afterward I "completed" the nearby rock on its right half with more C & Stamp.
The bench lighting illuminates this scene on the lower level, and every fixture for several feet is on the same circuit (24" fluorescent fixtures wired in parallel). The brown horizontal "band of brown haze" across about 1/3 of the bottom is the 60 cycle sine wave darkened as the lamps cycled off. Over two years ago I first encountered this problem. Up until then I took few photos of solely fluorescent lighted scenes, because I favor expansive scenes that show off the great size of the layout, and, lets face it, we had very little completed scenery to photograph. So I quick like a bunny bought some tripod mounted lights and that solved the problem. Well, one problem, the other being my memory. Yup. For this image I forgot to use the studio lights down under for narrow scenes, so they were exclusively fluorescent lit under the overhanging upper level.
Photo f/3.2 at 1/640 sec, iso 1600. it was of course a focus stacked image of about 30 frames of a video, so I am not sure what those numbers mean.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:23 AM•Views: 56
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P1001489 Bit Cr OverPass TD1 per sht + D&B and Adj Grad
Same US 30 from other side. I am tempted to "fix" the curved Backdrop with Clone & Stamp and Luminar's Sky Replacement, as described earlier in this album in the photo "P1001450 Hanna Bridge".
It would also be nice to get rid of the loop of brown wire hanging down in the center.
I hope you notice that whenever I "phony up" a photo to "improve" it, I always show the original, so as not to deceive with the artsy stuff.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:23 AM•Views: 57
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P1001490 Mine #4 TD1 per sht
UP Mine #4 from the extensive Rock Springs coal mining area. I will reshoot this soon with the studio lights, so the dark band goes away. I hope I remember to light it,, so the shadow on the rocks made by the structure goes away.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2022 11:24 AM•Views: 59
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