As a final foray into the ‘other hobbies’ topic, as I have mentioned in other posts I'm into historical re-enactment, mostly the American West for the past 40 years or so (the real thing not the Hollywood imagining) but I think to post ‘cowboy’ pics here would be stretching things a might ?
Always had an interest in WWII too and eventually got into it in 2007 but decided I was really too old to ‘play’ GI and run around with a gun, so I fell back on what I knew and went for a US War Correspondent/ Photographer representation. I say ‘what I knew’ as I'm a film trained photographer, RAF and in following on from that decided I wanted to do things right and so bought 1930’s and 1940’s dated cameras of the types used then and shot solely on film, I used color film mostly, best of both worlds ( you can print a black and white print from a color neg) and I get the film images digitised of course for storage on a PC etc. ( I will still have the negatives if technology fails )
I don’t use photoshop, nothing is faked as such only manipulated with a very old program on my PC as an extension basically of what I used to do by hand, retouching hand coloring (35mm slides that is) cropping (as in framing a print in an enlarger) etc etc.
Like with the train dioramas no one really gets to see these pictures, I don’t have a website and don’t do FB/ Twitter etc (the one thing ‘social’ media isn’t .. is social ..!!) so again forgive my indulgence in posting some examples here, basically I have tried to recreate 1940’s pictures and have always managed to shoot ‘clean’ ie; nothing modern as such in the pictures, however the credit for the pictures should I feel go to the re-enactors in them in as much as in having their equipment clothing etc as realistic and authentic as possible then that more than anything perhaps, makes the pictures more believable too ??
