abufletcher

BTW, I was also very impressed with the SBD-5 photos I think it might be that crisp Kiwi air! That and, of course, the spectacular model.

BTW2, I couldn't resist posting a color-adjusted version of my favorite of the B-58 shots. Though in some ways I actually like the 1960's feel of the colors in the original photos, which I assume was taken quite a few years ago based on the cars in the background.

ZoomZoom-RCU

Smashing Abu, simply smashing. That Snipe is sweet. In the pursuit of excellence, I saw something the other day that would make that sepia shot tad more real, (not that its not excellent anyway!!) I was looking at an old photo of a flight line of DR1's on an airfield somewhere.....don't know where....but anyway....on one of the lower wings of the DR1 was an aviators flight jacket, obviously where he had left it after tossing it off after flying. If it hadn't been there I could have mistaken it for a model shot too, but those little details that draw the eye in really help sell it. By the way....your scale stool works this effect really nicely too. I know you were going for the sort of (standard info aircaft shot) which they used to do, and I think you pulled it off well. The grass even looks right! Well done.

ZZ

David Bathe

That pilot is WICKED. It so makes that Snipe shot.

US185Damiani

Hey that N-11 is what you would see at any air museum restoring an airplane,

so I think some of those are very scale shots you would see especially if you are emulating the Scale and detail publications which take detail shots of full size airplanes!

Lucky Dog

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Here are a few of mine from the Mint Julep that my be worthy.

JGrc

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Here is a couple,
DeHavilland Hornet

JG

Teus

The 1/3 scale Sopwith Camel from Mick Reeves build by Ralf Strutter and fitted with Mick's reduction gear.

Click [link=http://www.modelbouwforum.nl/forums/916968-post494.html]HERE[/link] for a Photshopped version that brings him back to 1918!

abufletcher

One comment on the photoshop technique. People often used the add grain feature to simulated "old" photos. But the fact is that WWI era photos rarely look grainy. This is because most photographs at that time would have been made with large "plate" cameras yielding large format negatives (4x5" or 8x10") .

The key to getting a "WWI look" in photoshop is to remember that the film in use at that time was so-called "orthocromatic" film (v.s the "panchromatic" B/W films of today). Othrochromatic film has a greater sensitivity to blue light and this had two effects:

1) Blues ended up as lighter tones of grey than reds, oranges, and yellows. Thus the "red dot" in a British roundel would be "blacker" than the blue ring.

2) Outdoor and flying shots tended to look a bit washed-out (overexposed) because of the film's sensitivity to the scattered atmospheric blue light (haze).

I tried to reproduce both of these effects in the following B/W conversion (using the "channel mixing" dialog box). I also used a very light sepia filter at a low opacity.

abufletcher

Here's my take on your color version of your (very cool) Camel.

paint-boy

And here's my take. Did this up really quick.....

abufletcher

Night photography was particularly challenging back in WWI.

Paint-boy, messing around with you image with levels in photoshop suggests that you were trying to add tears and age-damage to the photo. From what I can make out in photoshop, it looks good. But something's seriously wrong would the image you uploaded. Could you try again? Also how did you get the worn-look? I had thought of that but couldn't figure out how to do it.

paint-boy

Okay there was something wrong with the file, I re-opened it and saved again. I actually have some vintage photos. I had scanned them in, took the border off and added it as a new layer to the original image. I then added the normal "aging" techniques. (Noise, Blur, Darkness, Bright spots, lens flare etc.) Again I did this rather quickly....but I think it turned out pretty well.

abufletcher

Very nice, Paint-boy! Could I ask you to try that with the photo I posted of my Snipe? I tried playing around with the border in your photo but it wasn't working for me.

I like the lens flare effect and the general faded look! The bluish tone is also a nice touch.

BTW, the overall lost of contrast (as in paint-boy's version) would also have been typical of many of the early uncoated lens. Ditto on the blur.

abufletcher

I was playing around with some of Paint-boy's techniques and came up with the following.

paint-boy

Here is one for you abufletcher...I've enjoyed watching your build thread as well.

abufletcher

That's fantastic! Thanks a million. I'm definitely going to have to learn to do that!

SDCrashmaster

I like that last one very much as well.
Dump the lens flair though. The image looks very natural except for that specific part of it.
Nice.
Paul

abufletcher

I agree that the lens flare falls more into the "artistic license" area and that's what this is for me: A work of art. The lens flare can be fun however! But probably wasn't typical of the early (simpler) lens designs vs. the zoom lenses of today that can have a dozen or more elements.

(Apologies for reposting the same image again and again. [sm=red_smile.gif] )

Tango Juliet

Here's one I took yesterday. I used Photoshop Elements 5.0 a little bit, but I didn't spend too much time on it. So here is the doctored photo and the original image.

Teus

Spitfire from Frank Sopwith flown at the scale meeting in Oss (Netherlands) last weekend.

JohnVH

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my flite metaled T6

Danno5o

"Spirit of Edmonton" Proctor Jenny

chasrb

That is one big fence...

abufletcher

It's the US/Canadian border. The Canucks needed to do something to keep the American riff-raff out! The Jennys were used for aerial border patrol.

David Bathe

A couple of funny posts.