Ride On Railways

Camera Tricks

Often through stupidity or just lack of consentration, you get so tied up in taking a picture you miss the obvious. Sometimes an object in the background never caught your attention on the day, but stands out like a sore thumb in a photograph.

Below are a few examples of pictures we have used with a hidden history.

Removal of a Fence

John Oxlade's railway. I thought the fence was a bit too distracting. By carefully cropping the picture and cutting and pasting lumps of grass over the fence I was able to create an illusion of there not being a fence. If you look carefully you can see my clumbsy work.

Moving the Body

So busy with lights, tripod etc, missed the fact that the body wasn't on straight. To move it over I picked the body and all the background to the left and simply slid it over. Picture join ran down the bridge leg, around the body then along the concrete in the bottom left corner.

Don't Look Too Closely

We don't let things like not having a chassis get in the way. Having just finished the first panel coach we took it outside for a photo shoot. Not waiting till we had finished the chassis, we put it on astandard one. Look to the right and you will see the body over hanging the chassis and the centre foot rest bracket isn't in the centre..

The picture join runs up the bricks through tipper no. 9 round the bush and up to the right of the sky.

Combining Pictures

Having nine tippers made a great train but we couldn't resist a little bit of fun. By taking two pictures and moving the tippers we were able to show a photograph of a train with 17 wagons.

The sign, garden cane and a pot infront of the far bush were also removed to tidy up the picture.

The garden windmill was a little distracting.

A part from the cutting and pasting to hide an odd paint chip, all the modifications to photographs are of the surroundings and not the products. It is not done to make a product look better than it really is but done to make the presentation just that little bit tidier.