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Art Fawcett VS Hall of Fame

Jauntyone

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Hello Landman,

I've been following your posts and I would've posted some pics earlier but my family and I are in the process of moving house, to a town 320 miles south of where we were and we've been driving back and forth, keeping some stuff in storage, putting other stuff in the in-laws' basement and the rest is boxed up in a tiny apartment until we can find a housr to rent or buy. Plus I'm looking for a new job... Anyway, just for you, I dug into our stuff and found my VS Ivory. I am posting some photos with a few other VS hats, a "natural", a "steel blue" and a "blue mist" to give you some reference. These pictures were taken in natural sunlight and with flash:


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Jauntyone

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Here are a couple more photos with a VS "dove" hat, with and without flash.
If I had to describe the the Ivory color, I'd say it was a very, very light butter color, definately a bit of yellow in there, though very light. The silvermist has more of a blue tint and the silverbelly is more neutral, being a really light tan.

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Lotsahats

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Here are a couple more photos with a VS "dove" hat, with and without flash.
If I had to describe the the Ivory color, I'd say it was a very, very light butter color, definately a bit of yellow in there, though very light. The silvermist has more of a blue tint and the silverbelly is more neutral, being a really light tan.

Lighting makes a huge difference!
 

TheDane

Call Me a Cab
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Copenhagen, Denmark
It really does! The last two pictures (with and without a flash) are a prime example.

One should expect some amount of "color-washing" when shooting against a colored wall - in this case a yellow. One should also expect different amount of color-washing, when the scene is lighted with very different intensities. Add the fact, that most modern digi-cameras insist on guessing the "correct" white-balance, which is great when shooting at aunt Anna's birthday - but not suited for critical photographing.

No doubt that light has a great influence on colors in a picture, but the difference between flash and natural light (around noon) is very small. It's not likely, that light alone played the photographer a trick in this case :)
 

Lotsahats

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Add to it that many sellers either don't think about it or don't care. I will say that every hat I've picked up from a fellow Lounger has been described and photographed accurately. Art's felt image page is so useful for this very point.

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pfisto22

New in Town
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pa
VS Hats with other than ribbon

Good evening,
Ok another VS question as I am on the list and the waiting is unbearable. So now I am trying to figure exactly how to ask Art to make this work of Art. My question does anyone have a fedora hat band with anything other than ribbon like maybe leather or horsehair. Is this a dumb question???
Thanks
 

jbucklin

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Dallas, TX
Good evening,
Ok another VS question as I am on the list and the waiting is unbearable. So now I am trying to figure exactly how to ask Art to make this work of Art. My question does anyone have a fedora hat band with anything other than ribbon like maybe leather or horsehair. Is this a dumb question???
Thanks

I know Art has made hats before with a leather band. It was a less expensive line that he introduced a year or two ago and I distinctly remember seeing the photos, though I can't remember the name of the hat or the series. I'm sure some other loungers will chime in and maybe even direct you to the page with the photos. I believe they were on Art's "Hall of Fame" thread. Also, I believe Art is out of town right now.

And no, there are no dumb questions on the Fedora Lounge. ;)
 

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