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  1. Johnb liked Big Al's post in the thread 35025 Brocklebank Line.

    I love your idea that when a main line registered loco is 'out working' there is precious little for workshop volunteers to do. Can I suggest to you that the same people are just as busy; they are simply doing different stuff.

    Aug 25, 2026 at 6:48 PM

  2. Johnb liked 35B's post in the thread Fakeography.

    I think that's a great image, and I completely follow why you've done what you've done. But in my view there is nothing different in principle from letting AI do its stuff - both a outright manipulations of the source image. The important...

    Aug 23, 2026 at 10:21 PM

  3. Johnb replied to the thread 35025 Brocklebank Line.

    My connection with MNLPS took a long time, I spent a lot of time in 66/7 travelling on and photographing what was the last steam main line and often had the financial misfortune to encounter someone from MNLPS shaking a collecting tin . I don't...

    Aug 23, 2026 at 5:05 PM

  4. Johnb attached a file to the thread Fakeography.

    Agree with every word of that Scot. Even in film days an image was only an approximation of what the eye saw, a transparency on Agfa film looked different to the same scene using Kodak. Having said that looking at some of the pictures taken in...

    _DSC4709.jpg Aug 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM

  5. Johnb liked jsm8b's post in the thread Fakeography.

    Even before Photoshop !. I have a book by Les Nixon in which he describes adding exhaust to a shot of 4498 which had none using a second negative of a completely different loco. The darkroom process was never just one of always giving the same...

    Aug 23, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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