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For the detail photos, I'll be shooting against a white back-
drop using 2 incandescent reflector spots.
Please let me know if I need to make any changes. I plan to
send you a wide variety of angles and exposures for each of
the photos so that you can choose the ones that work best.
Regards,
Tom
Charlie Comstock, who has forgotten more about photog-
raphy than I'll ever know, responded to my initial e-mail
request for some guidance with a long e-mail outlining tips
and techniques for white balance, depth of field, composi-
tion, etc. The information was extremely helpful and I began
to think that I just might be able to pull this off.
At this point I visited Charlie's website to review his tutorial
on model railroad photography
. I also visited numerous
other digital photography websites and began taking pic-
tures of the layout and some test construction pictures.
Armed with just enough knowledge to wear out a good
camera, I started taking pictures. In order to make sure that
what I was shooting would be acceptable, I responded to
Charlie's helpful e-mail with the e-mail below along with
several shots.
Charlie-
Well, I spent a bit of the weekend taking pic-
tures, taking notes and reading up on some
the technical aspects of digital photography. I
also read and re-read the information you sent
Writing for MRH - 3
Polishing Your
Article
Drafting your article is
only the first step, its
important to write in a
clearly and with good
grammer so readers
don’t have to read a
sentence 2 or 3 times
to understand what
your saying, furthermore you need to use accurate modeling
terms and brand names.
Wait a minute!
That first paragraph is so poorly-written it’s hard to believe you
read it in
Model Railroad Hobbyist.
Let’s try again:
Drafting your article is only the first step. Write clearly and use
good grammar. Someone shouldn’t need to read a sentence two
or three times to understand what you’re saying. Always use
accurate modeling terms and brand names.
There. That’s better. See the difference? The first paragraph:
wasn’t proofread (“...write in a clearly....” and “grammer”)
is one long sentence instead of several short ones
contains word usage errors (“its” should be “it’s” and “your”
should be “you’re”)
contains a style error (“2 or 3” should be “two or three”)
It is important that your submission is clear, easy to read,
grammatically correct, and follows MRH style guidelines.
Where do you start?
MRH-Mar 2013
