The Shelf Layout Backdrop Photo | Color Saturation
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2021
- In this episode I demonstrate why I believe "less is better" when it comes to color saturation concerning HO Scale backdrop photos. The layout is eight feet long by sixteen inches wide (deep). It also has an additional two foot (section) staging on the left side for a "fiddle" yard. Technically it is ten feet by sixteen inches wide @ 55" from the floor (track level). The florescent lighting is 12" above track level. The view aperture opening (between the facia/track level and the valance/ just below the lights) is 9" opening. The "shadow" box height in total (from bottom of facia to top of valance) is 18."
Music: Divine Life Society
You do such a wonderful job sharing your knowledge in a short amount of time. Its simple and straight to the point. It blows my mind how you convey your thought process and techniques so they're so easily understandable and so easily learned. I find myself going "wow that is so helpful" after watching your videos. Thank you for sharing. Stay well. -Wil 👍
Thank You William. I appreciate your thoughtful comments. It is nice to hear you are benefitting from the content. This is the goal - Boomer.
Boomer, you're my favourite teacher. Especially when it comes to interpreting light in model form. I'm way over three years old, but I still ask myself "why" a lot. You do the same and also you come up with (the) answers. Thank you for another lesson.
Thank You Rafael. I`m only really sharing my experiences with the community. It sure is fun though. Cheers.
It’s similar to the idea that we can’t model weight to scale. The same idea applies to color and shading. This is another nine minute class on how to build a model. Less is more! Brilliant!
I always appreciate your insightful comments Sam. The miniature world is rather uncomfortable in our world . . . cheers.
I never was big into photo backdrops till my current layout. I sware by them now, and I agree, proper colour saturation is the key where your foreground modeling transitions seamlessly to the backdrop. You want a good illusion of depth of space. Tricking the eye.
They take some thought process for sure in order to create the illusion.
Excellent presentation
Thank You.
Your on another level Boomer. Totally inspiring abilities and craftsmanship. It's truly a marvelous time to be a model railroader with the detailed rolling stock available and all the good video's like what you produce and others also, helping to bring to life our vision of whatever in the model train world. Thank You for sharing your know how on what most blow over and not able to see the importance of all the little details involved in bringing the realize'm closer to life . . . Your on another level, and truly appreciated over here 😃
Thank You Brian. Modelling kind-of kept me together over the years as I ran a few of life's gauntlets. Just like to share a little now-and-again to help encourage others to do the same. As you mentioned, It's a fantastic hobby to say the least. Cheers. ~ Boomer.
Having to be able to drive by this real life scene daily then watching it come to life on your railroad is a true inspiration. To untrained eyes like. mine the differences in the 3 backdrops is amazing,
I almost forced my hand with the heavy saturated photo. I knew something wasn't right. Then my intuitive wife came along and said, "
It does not work." She was right. Criticism sucks, but it makes us all better, (at what we do), at the end of the day. Cheers and thank you for the compliment as well - Boomer.
Excellent again. I made the mistake of sending my wife out to get me a gallon of Sky blue. Everybody has their own idea of what that is. What my wife and the clerk picked out was nothing like I was thinking. But artists like ourselves think even differently. I think what I picked out is even paler. I totally agree with you on backdrop photos. I painted oils and watercolor landscapes for quite a few years and will be working some of that into my backdrop. If I can remember how 😁. Thanks again for your time on this.
You are welcome. When in doubt, add white and go lighter.
Excellent video, and the back drop looks great! The layout is coming along well
Thank You. Slowly but surely she is coming along. Cheers.
I am very impressed with your dioramas and what I have learnt from your expertise that I am hoping you use on my ho scale layout. I have gained so much. Thanks again. Neil Bosanko. Melbourne Australia
You are welcome! Cheers and happy modeling.
Thank you Boomer. I will be needing a similar road-transition photo backdrop piece like this on my own layout. I'll be sure to return here to reference this video again. Take care!
If I could I would do this over again though. I couldn't get low enough and centered on the road. Therefore, it skews a bit when you move around. Cheers.
I had to come back to this old video because it stuck in my head and I wanted the thank you for enlightening me on now important the backdrop color is for all the rest of the color choices. I'm not started on my basement railroad yet, but benchwork is currently on my mind and that means a backdrop to instantiate the scene. Your advice is always so valuable. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Good demonstration of various color to black-and-white. Very nice backdrop, fits perfectly.
Thank You. Cheers.
I get what you’re saying about the color saturation. I think you tutorials will help me out quite a bit. Thanks. Cheers 🍻
Thank You Patrick. I find much of the "model" railroad community to be helpful. It`s nice to see all the different ways to achieve similar goals. All good stuff.
Really interesting thanks for posting. The colour changes were very effective.
Thank You Mark! I`m glad you found something in it. Cheers.
Which photo editing software do you use? Sorry if I missed it in the video.
Another great lesson!
Another great lesson for me as well!
Great job! I agree "less is best" with regard to the saturation of the backdrop. As you pointed out, it's not the focus of the diorama. Looking forward to seeing the end result of merging the backdrop with the existing blue of the diorama.
BTW Glad to hear you're not in the doghouse. Lol.
One only needs to appease the Queen to stay out of the doghouse . . . lol.
Fantastic layout
Thank You for the compliment. The small shelf layout can be just as satisfying as a larger layout. I have had both. I enjoy this one far more than any previous one I owned in the past. Cheers.
I see said the blind man. What a difference it makes. And it helps set the seen. Thanks for sharing.
You are welcome Vincent.
Thank you. Doing backdrops is a challenge especially with color and sperpetive. I like the way you deal with this to make it better. Again you have a great layout.
Thank You Wayne. It`s all the space I really have. Just trying to make the best of it while staying engaged in the full spectrum of the hobby. Cheers.
Very interesting. I have to agree the second picture is much better. I am getting ready to do my back drop and have a couple places I want to add a couple pictures, this will be a big help. Thank you
Glad to hear you are inspired in the same way you all inspire me. Cheers.
You are doing a great job with your videos. I have a small 1' X 6' shelf layout. I will eventually do it over. Your 16" X 8' would be doable for the room I have. Keep up the good work I am learning a lot.
Sounds great! I am always thrilled to hear from others with smaller layouts. Thank You for the encouraging words friend. Cheers. - Boomer.
Good 👍
Thank you.
I agree the saturated image was not the right thing. When you pulled out the BW photo my ears went up. I've done a fair number of image manipulation of BW scans by applying over layers of color over parts of the image where I think it would be suitable. I'm sure you've seen examples of such "improvements". So, I was wondering how judicious use of color on the BW would work out; keep the overall muting but add spots of color to keep the eye guessing. Just a thought.
I think "muting" as you describe is a good thing in miniature. The smaller the scale the more muted from the real world in my opinion. Cheers.
@ 2:27... LOL!!!!!!!... well hell, ain't it ALWAYS behavior related LOL!!!!!!!!!! (well in my case it is anyway lol)
Lol . . . I finally prompted my wife to confess how she hides things as well. The problem is, her things are multiple two dollar items. Mine are singular two hundred drops. Now that she is a subscriber to the channel I`m hooped . . . Lol . . . oops . . . lol.
Color is hard.
Adding white makes it soft.