Peterborough North

[great northern]

It is late enough now for the constant flow of coal to London to get started again.

 

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

I'm doing something wrong again. The screen keeps turning blue when I try to attach a second image. 

 

 

Another visitor today, so I must get on.

[great northern]

60001 has backed on to the Glasgow.

 

 

and a few minutes later is on its way.

 

 

Two very good days have ended. Yesterday we spent some time discussing what Geoff West might put in his soon to be delivered shed, and he watched while I started the new sequence, and got things wrong. Today KNP, owner and creator of the jewel of a model that is Little Muddle visited. He took quite a lot of photos, which will be posted on here when he has finished doing clever things with them which I don't understand, and I was able to get some valuable help about strip LED lighting, and how I might go about doing the scenic work which will surround Peter Leyland's new buildings when they arrive. All very enjoyable indeed.

 

 

 

[KNP]

Thank you for your kind words about my little offering and it indeed was an enjoyable day complete with pork pie and sausage roll!

 

This is the first picture I took...

 

More will follow over the next few days as I think I took 90 + pictures, few didn't work but that is par for the course.

 

 

 

[Oldddudders]

Encouraging KNP to influence the greening of areas outside the railway fence on PN is akin to putting the cherry on an already-iced cake. Brilliant synergy. 

[great northern]

ECS from Delaval sidings Newcastle to Holloway comes through behind Thane of Fife.

 

 

Then KX A3 Sandwich appears, on Class C duty with a KX Goods - Leeds .  Often A3 hauled, this was an accident prone train, known to have ploughed into the sand drag at Arlesey, and through it, on three recorded occasions in the 50s.

 

 

 

 

 

[KNP]

I have decided to post my pictures in batches of three, each picture is taken using a process called post focus and on average this is 35 individual frames focused between 25mm and infinity.

They are then edited and merged using a focus merge program (in my case Serif Affinity) together to give, as near as it can, a focused picture from foreground to background.

 

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

More of the progress of Sandwich this evening. In the gathering gloom,

 

 

and back out into the fading daylight.

 

 

[Woodcock29]

8 hours ago, KNP said:

I have decided to post my pictures in batches of three, each picture is taken using a process called post focus and on average this is 35 individual frames focused between 25mm and infinity.

They are then edited and merged using a focus merge program (in my case Serif Affinity) together to give, as near as it can, a focused picture from foreground to background.

 

 

 

 

 

Hi KNP 

What camera are you using?

Andrew

[KNP]

8 hours ago, Woodcock29 said:

Hi KNP 

What camera are you using?

Andrew

 

Panasonic DMC - TZ100 

[KNP]

A few more

 

 

 

[great northern]

My contribution this morning is yet more looks at Sandwich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[great northern]

We come to the penultimate move in the sequence, a local from Boston, which the CWN claims should be a four car DMU. Look as I might, I was unable to find any such thing among my stock, so instead we have a lovely A5 and three non corridor coaches. Very temperamental these DMUs, you know. Fail at the drop of a hat. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pilgrim in France]

It would be 2x2cars 

[KNP]

A few more...

 

 

 

[great northern]

The constant flow of northbound trains has now slackened, so the C12 can bring a couple of vans in to be loaded or unloaded.

 

 

 

The final train of the sequence then arrives. The 7.21 slow from KX seems to have been Pacific hauled more often than not, and this evening Gannet has the job. A return on an Up sleeper early tomorrow morning, perhaps?

 

 

I'm still struggling to get the correct balance on some of these shots with the new lights, and I made rather a mess of this one, so no attempt at photoshopping. One positive is that the errant corridor connector has been swiftly dealt with.

 

 

[great northern]

10 hours ago, Pilgrim in France said:

It would be 2x2cars 

I know, but I only have one two car unit, and I was looking for a convenient excuse.

[Pilgrim in France]

A good excuse to buy another 2 car set!

[landscapes]

7 hours ago, great northern said:

The constant flow of northbound trains has now slackened, so the C12 can bring a couple of vans in to be loaded or unloaded.

 

 

 

The final train of the sequence then arrives. The 7.21 slow from KX seems to have been Pacific hauled more often than not, and this evening Gannet has the job. A return on an Up sleeper early tomorrow morning, perhaps?

 

 

I'm still struggling to get the correct balance on some of these shots with the new lights, and I made rather a mess of this one, so no attempt at photoshopping. One positive is that the errant corridor connector has been swiftly dealt with.

 

 

Hi Gilbert

 

If you don’t mind me saying the photo looks very good to me just maybe slightly over exposed but nothing else looks wrong, on occasions when the natural light is a problem there is very little you can do to rectify the issue even with the most expensive Camera’s.

 

If you have the editing software have you thought of taking your photos in the RAW mode on your camera instead of taking a JPEG as you have a lot more control over the exposure before you download the final photo.

 

Regards

 

David

[great northern]

10 minutes ago, landscapes said:

Hi Gilbert

 

If you don’t mind me saying the photo looks very good to me just maybe slightly over exposed but nothing else looks wrong, on occasions when the natural light is a problem there is very little you can do to rectify the issue even with the most expensive Camera’s.

 

If you have the editing software have you thought of taking your photos in the RAW mode on your camera instead of taking a JPEG as you have a lot more control over the exposure before you download the final photo.

 

Regards

 

David

I take everything in RAW + JPEG mode David, and then go to Digital Photo Professional to do some work there on the RAW image. Then it is over to Paint.Net, where I do the layers and final editing. I know that isn't the most sophisticated programme, but it is free.

[Metropolitan H]

I do like that picture of the C12 under the roof, and didn't anything wrong with the slight overexposure of the scene beyond the roof. Dad's Zeiss bellows camera 2 1/4" x 3 1/4" format on 120 film would have given a similar result - if you could decern any detail under the roof. But that would have been in B&W - Dad didn't go to colour slide film till circa 1962.

 

Regards

Chris H

[great northern]

10 hours ago, Pilgrim in France said:

A good excuse to buy another 2 car set!

DMUs are not my favourite things, I have to admit. Tim's winter project is a two car Derby heavyweight, and that will be quite enough for me. Even that may fail to allow the A5 to appear more often.

[great northern]

1 hour ago, Metropolitan H said:

I do like that picture of the C12 under the roof, and didn't anything wrong with the slight overexposure of the scene beyond the roof. Dad's Zeiss bellows camera 2 1/4" x 3 1/4" format on 120 film would have given a similar result - if you could decern any detail under the roof. But that would have been in B&W - Dad didn't go to colour slide film till circa 1962.

 

Regards

Chris H

The glare beyond the roof is a common factor on most of the prototype photos I have seen, so I'm comfortable with that. It was the one of Gannet that I wasn't happy with.

[great northern]

This evening we have two more shots of Gannet, and ones with which I am much more content. And that, folks, completes the record of the first ever Saturday sequence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[KNP]