My other hobby

[David Mallott]

One of the things that caused me to instantly enjoy Olympus cameras was the ease with which one could do Focus bracketing. This is something which is almost indispensable these days when ut comes to taking realistic pictures of models.


On My Layout based on a West Highland Line station,
David

[David Mallott]

My first Olympus camera was the E-M10 MkII which was supposed at the entry level but, coming from a Nikon D7000, it seemed like a huge advance in features and capability. The only thing I found lacking was battery life and easy menus.




David

[David Mallott]

Stacking done in Helicon Focus.

[Bikie John]

Wow, they are very impressive, both for the layout and the photography. What gauge is the layout?

John

[David Mallott]

Thanks. The layout is built to 4mm/foot (1:76) scale. Similar to 00 but the track is all hand built.

[Bikie John]

It is all very effective. In particular the weathering om the second loco (sorry, I should know what it is but I am not enough of a train geek ) is superb.

[wanderer]

Train geek here.
The top one is a 'McRat' as in it rattled and its Scottish.
It is a Scotty Dog Growler or more mundanely a Class 37 out of Eastfield Depot.
A wonderful sound in the night as they climbed out of Crianlarich.
Nicely weathered.
Where are the midgies?

[blackfox]

Very impressive photos

[wornish]

The stacking makes them look real.

[David Mallott]

That's certainly the main aim. 🙂 Nothing makes it look more like a model than a blurry foreground & background.

[Gerry]

Brilliant images, very realistic looking.

[MJ224]

Very realistic photos David, and amazing details on the trains themselves...

[rchammer]

At first glance these look real. Very impressive

[blu-by-u]

what you mean it's not train spotting but those a models

[Greytop]

Very impressive!
When I first glanced at the images I thought they were full sized locomotives.

[Phill D]

The modelling skills are very impressive. Like the others I thought they were life sized at first. Very clever photography too.

[Rocknroll59]

The Class 37 is very impressive the detail is outstanding, is it based on a Scottish shed engine...the class 27 is also brilliant again must have based it on a scottish shed allocation. Sorry I sound very geeky but I just remember loco types !!

[davcoll]

Unbelievably realistic David.

Dave