{"id":124,"date":"2007-05-20T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2007-05-20T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T01:58:08","slug":"photographing-the-fair-hope-northern-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/photographing-the-fair-hope-northern-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing The Fair Hope &#038; Northern Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/wpw-20070520\/thumb_20070519-185905_MG_2086.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" height=\"100\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"150\" \/>You must be asking yourself, what the hell is the Fair Hope &amp; Northern Railroad?  Well, I can tell you that it does exist, but only in HO form.  The Fair Hope &amp; Northern is the creation of a friend of mine, Steve Rodgers (lead singer, guitarist &amp; songwriter for the band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightypurple.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mighty Purple<\/a> and owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespace.tk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Space<\/a>, an all ages music venue in Hamden, CT), and exists in his the basement of his family&#8217;s Hamden home.  Loosely based on Steve&#8217;s favorite railroad &#8211; the New York, New Haven &amp; Hartford &#8211; it features a variety of scenes including a port, rural farm town, an industrial area &#8211; with an &#8220;adult&#8221; bar named the Peekaboo Lounge &#8211; and a bucolic New Enlgand town.  With the layout about 95% complete, Steve had an open house weekend and invited me down to check things out.  Of course, the camera kit came along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The last time I saw the layout was a little more than a year ago (click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=25\">here <\/a>to see some photos from that visit), and it&#8217;s changed quite a bit since then.  Most of the incomplete areas from last year are now either totally complete, or nearly finished.  He&#8217;s also installed plexiglass protection around the perimiter of the viewing area (which we promptly took down for some really cool camera angles).  A little background on the layout &#8211; quite a few of the buildings are scratch built, as are all the trees and other plants &amp; ground cover.  I tried my best to show the detail and workmanship of the layout in the photos I took, while also trying to show the scenes as you would if you were standing there.  Feel free to comment on the photos &#8211; either here in the blog, or on each individual photo in the gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The layout is divided up into four different towns, each representing a different type of area.\u00a0 They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fair Hope, CT &#8211; a nautical port town<\/li>\n<li>Pine Ridge, CT &#8211; a rural farm town with some mountains &amp; hills<\/li>\n<li>Tribute, MA &#8211; a factory and industrial town, and the home of a swing bridge &amp; drawbridge<\/li>\n<li>Grelock Falls, NH &#8211; a town at the base of a waterfall in rural New Hampshire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For you camera geeks out there, all were shot at either f\/20 or f\/22 using one of the three following lenses &#8211; Sigma 15mm f\/2.8 EX Fisheye, Sigma 18-50mm f\/2.8 EX DC or Sigma 70-200mm f\/2.8 EX DG APO HSM Macro.  Lighting was a blend of ambient and flash from two units &#8211; a Canon 420EX with a Sto-Fen Omnibounce on the camera, and an old POS flash on an optical slave providing some backlight.  Most exposures ranged from 2-4 seconds, with the 420EX firing once, and the off board flash twice.  Of course, the rig was on my Manfroto tripod &amp; 3 way head combo, and fired using the remote shutter switch.<\/p>\n<p>OK, enough blabbing &#8211; here&#8217;s the photos.  Yes there&#8217;s a bunch &#8211; 39 to be exact.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[cpg_album:182]\n<p align=\"left\">Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You must be asking yourself, what the hell is the Fair Hope &amp; Northern Railroad? Well, I can tell you that it does exist, but only in HO form. 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