Dave's corner

[Junior]

Great pictures of a very nice build. Have to go and inspect it at Kirk´s place in a couple of weeks. After that I will wright my final review......just kidding!

Anders 

[Frederic Testard]

Thanks to all of you for the nice comments.

Chuck, I knew you would find 20 months a rather small time for a dio...
James, as you may have noticed, in fact the interior detailing is still rather sparse in spite of the presence of some interesting pieces.
Thanks, Gordon, but my SBS are still much less detailed than yours. I'll see if I can adapt one of your truck buildings to my S scale which is going to be my main modelling focus now (back to the layout).
Chester, indeed the night shots are a really interesting exercise, and their postprocessing is almost as pleasant. See below for some fun.
Anders; now I'm really scared...

Here is a Photoshopped extension of one of my pictures. It was made by Greg Shinnie, a member of RR-Line.



I used his pic to make this new B&W



then added some Paint Shop Pro mist...



A few more. After all the work, this picture making period was a very pleasant time.







Black and white, with a little mist.





You might find some interest in seeing my setup for the nocturnal shots above and in the previous posts. The tripod, some sheets of Black Canson paper behind the dio, then I wait for the sunset, close the curtains, set the exposure time to 15 s, sometimes add a little white light on the side to undarken the details, then some postprocessing on Paint Shop Pro.

[Frederic Testard]

I think it's now time to come to an end with this topic. First the last shots.
More than 100 pics were shot and then processed in CombineZP, a program that works like HeliconFocus to find the in-focus parts of the shots and assemble everything in an image in focus almost everywhere. In fine, I got about 15 such images.



























With some fog again...



and the original picture for the foggy one above. These graphic softwares are impressive...



And finally a few ones shot outside in a sunny but windy day...











Then it was time to enclose everything in the box. Not really modelling, but a necessary last job before the long trip to Sweden.













On June 12th, the diorama was donated to Troels during the "Convention des trains du Nouveau Monde" in the center of France, at Noyant d'Allier. This was a great moment, and I felt very happy too when Troels offered me this wonderful painting of a scene on my Sn3 layout, with some Swedish snow added.







The most recent pics of Dave's Corner can now be seen in vol.4 of the Coast Line RR topic on RR-Line, with the installation by Troels of the diorama.

http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=32687&whichpage=40

[finescalerr]

Satisfactory indeed, Frederic. So is Troels' painting. -- Russ

[Chuck Doan]

Beautiful pictures Frederic! They are a nice extension to a model project. Thanks for the info; I want to try the focusing software.

[chester]

Nice photography indeed! I too need to do something about the field of focus.  Perhaps someone (ahem) would do a walk through with their software in the tips and techniques section.

[Frederic Testard]

Good idea, Chester, I'll try to post something.

[Ray Dunakin]

Cool. Is the diorama held secured in the box with screws? Or did you just carry it carefully and remember not to turn the box over?

[Frederic Testard]

One screw held the diorama. It was enough since I screwed one of the corners while the opposite corner was steadily pushed against the corresponding corner of the box. And it worked since it has been carried to Sweden with no damage.