mickoo
Western Thunderer
Occasionally we (Finney7 tribe) get to go places other folk may not have easy access to, a couple of years back it was the NYMR for the B1 photo shoot; today it was Loughborough for the....well that would spoil the surprise 
Anyway, big clappy hands for the gents who organised it and the site guys letting us wander around virtually access all areas. The weather helped and luncheon at Quorn was well worth the visit.
I've never been to Loughborough, but it's a very nice set up and I shall be returning for future visits I'm sure.
Anyway, here's what we're all waiting for, the piccies.
Inside the shed is the usual mix of stripped down, part repaired and running repairs mixture of engines, all squeezed in which makes photos awkward, but still interesting, there's plenty of light in there but that does create large areas of high contrast.
First up, the subject for a future project.
Externally this was at the darker end of the shed and to be fair I've more than enough detail shots externally and during rebuilds etc, so just grabbed some cab shots....because I could.
Overall view down the shed.
Some sort of Midland thing all stripped down, I didn't have time to photo shoot this one but it doesn't look like it's going anywhere soon so could possibly be another excuse for a photo shoot.
Toward the front is a nice clean Standard five which I think was in for simply running repairs.
Tucked down the side was the 04, I think this one is at the start of a heavy overhaul so will be striped down to bare frames in due course.
Outside a handful of engines were standing around, clearly used over the weekend for trains but just sat basking in the sun so it was rude not to oblige a few photos.
The problem with high bright sun is the strong contrast it generates and it can wash out the image, for my Flickr page I'd play on the high contrast and ramp up the HDR, add some filters and get some noise in there to give it a gritty high contrast feel (it's a marmite thing), but these are just vanilla photo album views.
Under the road bridge a 9F was just asking to be photographed, more than a bit annoyed at the cars parked behind, but you take what you can get.
I did some normal angle views but the low angle ones came out better and have more impact visually, I think anyway. There's a little HDR going on around the front pony truck.
A detail shot for those who like that sort of thing
To be fair today would been an excellent day to get in the pit as the concrete was bouncing off so much sunlight it was lighting up the undersides a treat, but it's not an engine on the short list and I have enough detail shots to suit my current needs.
Parked a little further away a short line of engines.
The 8F tender generated some lively debate, if you modeled that you'd be shot to pieces. To be honest, I do have a mind to do a tender like that at some point, it'd be an interesting modeling exercise to see if the effect can be scaled down effectively.
Finally, a big red crane, I like big red cranes, it's a shame there are no models of these more modern (late BR) heavy lift cranes. I'm not sure if this one was an actual steam era crane, possibly, but not sure.
A possible future candidate for a photo shoot.
More in part deux.
MD
Anyway, big clappy hands for the gents who organised it and the site guys letting us wander around virtually access all areas. The weather helped and luncheon at Quorn was well worth the visit.
I've never been to Loughborough, but it's a very nice set up and I shall be returning for future visits I'm sure.
Anyway, here's what we're all waiting for, the piccies.
Inside the shed is the usual mix of stripped down, part repaired and running repairs mixture of engines, all squeezed in which makes photos awkward, but still interesting, there's plenty of light in there but that does create large areas of high contrast.
First up, the subject for a future project.
Externally this was at the darker end of the shed and to be fair I've more than enough detail shots externally and during rebuilds etc, so just grabbed some cab shots....because I could.
Overall view down the shed.
Some sort of Midland thing all stripped down, I didn't have time to photo shoot this one but it doesn't look like it's going anywhere soon so could possibly be another excuse for a photo shoot.
Toward the front is a nice clean Standard five which I think was in for simply running repairs.
Tucked down the side was the 04, I think this one is at the start of a heavy overhaul so will be striped down to bare frames in due course.
Outside a handful of engines were standing around, clearly used over the weekend for trains but just sat basking in the sun so it was rude not to oblige a few photos.
The problem with high bright sun is the strong contrast it generates and it can wash out the image, for my Flickr page I'd play on the high contrast and ramp up the HDR, add some filters and get some noise in there to give it a gritty high contrast feel (it's a marmite thing), but these are just vanilla photo album views.
Under the road bridge a 9F was just asking to be photographed, more than a bit annoyed at the cars parked behind, but you take what you can get.
I did some normal angle views but the low angle ones came out better and have more impact visually, I think anyway. There's a little HDR going on around the front pony truck.
A detail shot for those who like that sort of thing
To be fair today would been an excellent day to get in the pit as the concrete was bouncing off so much sunlight it was lighting up the undersides a treat, but it's not an engine on the short list and I have enough detail shots to suit my current needs.
Parked a little further away a short line of engines.
The 8F tender generated some lively debate, if you modeled that you'd be shot to pieces. To be honest, I do have a mind to do a tender like that at some point, it'd be an interesting modeling exercise to see if the effect can be scaled down effectively.
Finally, a big red crane, I like big red cranes, it's a shame there are no models of these more modern (late BR) heavy lift cranes. I'm not sure if this one was an actual steam era crane, possibly, but not sure.
A possible future candidate for a photo shoot.
More in part deux.
MD
....and the 'Hoovers' only ended up on the BR(S) & (W) after they were displaced by the WCML electrification to Glasgow.
