I spent the better part of the weekend working on a practice/test video to test the waters as to what the challenges would be to produce something that was less “model railroady” in appearance. You can see the video HERE. Going in, I wanted to focus on three aspects of video production: Composition Lighting Audio […]
Category: Photography and Lighting
Compelling Video Imagery
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what constitutes compelling video imagery and how that could be applied to model railroading. Videos/trailers/movies can serve a myriad of purposes from telling a story, evoking a mood, making a socially relevant point, documentation, or instruction. With model railroading or railfanning, the overwhelming majority of imagery falls into […]
Printing Better Images
From the emails I receive, I can tell folks struggle with how to optimize the printed image output quality for their photo wallpaper. It can be confusing so let’s go through a short primer. There are essentially two steps. First, you need to save the photo in a way that maximizes how many ink dots […]
Two Points of View
The camera lens gives us tremendous power to interpret and frame our scenes in a way we find personally appealing. There are two primary reasons we build model railroads. First is the satisfaction of creation and assembly. The second reason, which often plays out sub-consciously and tends be emotionally driven, is much more powerful. We […]
A Gift to Yourself
The ultimate modeling gift to yourself? Something that, if embraced, will allow you to be transported into the miniature world you are working so hard to artfully frame? Three of them are only $12.65. Click HERE. The article below shows how to use them.