I wanted to show off my European railroad as it sat on carpet last year. You see, It was and still is in its infancy, as far as working on it. So, I laid it out on the floor in my basement and thought maybe I should take some pictures after I get a general idea of what I was trying to achieve. I used a digital camera for the shots. As I took some shots, I was totally disgusted because everything looked so chaotic or unreal as it were. So, I decided, what if I come in to the scenes with close ups. Like shooting one picture through the cab of a Scania semi and onto the Taurus engine just on the other side. When I did this, it looked so real, that even my father could not discern between it being a model or a real engine. The point is: getting up close and personal with photography of railroad scenes is very important if your desire is to show them off as near as real as possible. Of course, I am merely an amateur here. I am sure there are posters up in here that have years of photography experience. I just wanted to share a sort of angle on how one can shoot a picture of a scene and have it come out as if it were a real picture of a real working railroad.
Also, I took a city scape scene poster and planted that bad boy behind some of my rolling stock. I snapped a few pictures and what I got in return were some really nice and fairly realistic shots. The Calanda Brau cars looked as if they were real with the background of a cityscape. Totally amateur, but for a few amateur shots, fairly real looking. Lighting was also a factor as well.
