Photos taken outdoors - HO scale
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The great thing about the diorama is it's portable, so I can cart it outside, or even onto the floor, as in this first pic, and turn it to vary the arrangement of sun and shadows. If I'd thought of it, I would have backed off one of the locos to let more sun through the gap. The light is barely noticeable on the foreground grass. Locos are Proto 2000s
Atlas loco in this one.
More to come when I get the chance […… :twisted: :twisted:
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Kadee boxcar and Atlas hopper
Atlas loco
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I can only assume the loco is just out of the paint shop as it does not have much road dirt over the bogies !!
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Mike
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I am doing mine for the same reasons you are just to make it portable and take it outside for photography.
Mine is not so rural or scenic as yours but iam hoping the natural light will make it look more realistic. A chap on RM web had done one like the one i am doing which when i saw the photos made me look twice that gave me the inspiration to have a go myself.
cheers Brian.W
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The results are spectacular so instead of starting my next project, which happens to be one of your trees, I'm planning how to get my 26 foot long diaorama outside into a specially built collapsible shed.
Outstanding. :shock:
Les
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Super Mike!
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I'm finding that if the backyard trees I use for the background are in sun the photos don't work anywhere near as well. I took several photos of my Bachmann 0-6-2 BR tank engine and it looks like it's travelling through a clearing in the Malayan jungle
The sun is very strong too, so I've had to use a big white ice-box lid to reflect some light back into the darks. The wall of the house helps a bit in that way too.
It gets quite difficult when the wind blows, and trees keep falling over
I'm looking forward to seeing more diorama photos taken outdoors. Engine sheds and bridges should look great :)
Mike
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Being outside makes a whole lot of difference - you can't beat natural light. As everyone has said, it really DOES look real !!
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Fabulous stuff, Mike. A real treat for the eyes.
Perry
Due to cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off.
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Perry I have had problems with the harsh sun. It's so strong it gets quite dazzling, and upsets the contrast. Also, if the model is backlit, the sun tends to make plastic handrails glow and look like the plastic they are. It's more of an issue with the Lifelike Proto 2000s. than it is with Atlas. The floodlight I use indoors can cause it to happen too. Short of changing the railings and grabs, one answer is to paint them in an appropriate opaque colour, which is a bit fiddly.
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Are you using your camera settings to reduce the amount of light in the photo and using reflectors to prevent over dark shadows?
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