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OT: Photographing Modern Warriors with Civil-War Technology
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 3:40 pm
by n5wd
Ed Drew is a veteran who is using Civil War era tech, tintypes, to photograph modern day warriors.
I thought some of y'all might be interested in the technology - others will appreciate the art involved in making these photographs. And others? Well, here are some interesting photographs of the Air Force's Special Operations folks (didn't know the Air Force did Spec Ops, huh?).
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Re: OT: Photographing Modern Warriors with Civil-War Technol
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 3:50 pm
by VMI77
n5wd wrote:Ed Drew is a veteran who is using Civil War era tech, tintypes, to photograph modern day warriors.
I thought some of y'all might be interested in the technology - others will appreciate the art involved in making these photographs. And others? Well, here are some interesting photographs of the Air Force's Special Operations folks (didn't know the Air Force did Spec Ops, huh?).
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It's interesting and I do appreciate the art in it, but I'm too lazy to work these old film processes these days since I can duplicate just about anything in Photoshop.
Re: OT: Photographing Modern Warriors with Civil-War Technol
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 4:37 pm
by The Annoyed Man
Very cool stuff, although I'm with VMI77. It is good that someone keeps these old processes alive, but personally I can duplicate all of the effects using PhotoShop filters. All the same, I really like the pictures.
Re: OT: Photographing Modern Warriors with Civil-War Technol
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 10:24 pm
by TexasVet
Nice pictures. For the first few pictures I thought that there were a lot of leftie soldiers out there, then saw on the closeups that the patches were all backwards too..
All the Air Force PJs I have met were really impressive guys !
Re: OT: Photographing Modern Warriors with Civil-War Technol
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:24 am
by bigity
The Air Force generally doesn't get out there in popular culture and movies and such. I mean we had Iron Eagle movies and then the one guy in Transformers (combat controller) and the AC-130 gunship, and I guess the para rescue guys from Black Hawk Down.
With the later stuff evening out the Iron Eagle movies, we are starting fresh basically :D
Re: OT: Photographing Modern Warriors with Civil-War Technol
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:28 am
by RoyGBiv
Cool photos. More work than I care to take on, but I appreciate the result.
Even with the reversed image, this guys flag is still backwards.
Re: OT: Photographing Modern Warriors with Civil-War Technol
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:46 am
by RogueUSMC
Your first field op is when the obligatory 'bad mamma jamma' pictures were usually take...these guys looked like they'd be past that. after that, it was stupid stuff like putting an M60 sling on a MK19 and act like we 'bout to shoot from the hip...lol