Very happy to report that, unlike last month, some actual buying and selling took place during our July meeting! And it’s mostly thanks to Original Ken!
Also, I’ve updated the photos for our September 2015 post.
Thusly, on to our July photos!
July 2017
Kenny starts off with this beautiful white Rolls Royce. It’s by Zlymex, model D44. Really nice condition for its age. Kenny later advised me this is actually a Rolls Canardly. It easily rolls down one hill…
…And canardly roll up the next.
Kenny tells me that when he posts table photos to our club’s Facebook page, we get lots of hits. So, at his prompting I took the following table photos. This first one is your basic, low-angle table-front shot.
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For this second photo, I wanted to get a sweeping vista of the great variety of items on Big Tractor Mike’s table. I set the camera high on my main tripod, and tilted and rotated it for the shot, knowing I’d have to “un-rotate” it (that is, rotate it in the opposite direction in my photo software) to restore the verticals.
For my fellow photogs, the final image is rotated exactly 26 degrees counter-clockwise.
The original photo came out as I wanted it; however when I cropped & scaled it down to fit our blog, it was too many items in too small a visual space. Knowing that the Jammer case is the most significant vertical object in the photo, I used it as the focal point for the site photo. I played with zooms and crops, and finally got an image which fits and still has enough volume of detail to be interesting. You can see the full image here. The white triangles in the corners reveal the rotation I mentioned.
This third and final table photo is experimental. I put the camera on my mini-tripod, and set the tripod actually down into Mike’s display case. I adjusted the legs to put the camera just above the toys, and set the angle so that the far edge of the next case over became the distant horizon line.
Composition!
Finally, we have Kenny’s sweet Chevrolet Chevelle SS-396, by Welly. If you look closely at the rear left tire, you’ll see it has a “Whizzwheels”-style ridge. I had a bit of a challenge deciding between this model and the Rolls for FotM. Then I recalled that we have numerous Zylmez models on the site, and few Welly models. So that sealed the deal, as it were. Thus, I declare this Welly SS-396 to be our Find of the Month(*) for July 2017.
Congratulations, Ken!
See you at our August meeting!
~WM
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