USAAF Class 'A's (vintage styled photos)

[PADDY]

Sadly, I am 'no' Hemingway Jones or Lord Lichfield when it comes to good photography, but I have been having fun trying to create a vintage 'feel' using nothing more than an old desk lamp and a five-year-old well dropped digital camera to snap off some shots of these USAAF Class 'A's belonging to a Lt.Col in the Army Air Forces of WWII. In some I've experimented with getting a 'grainy' vintagey feel to them, others look abit more 'film noirish' and I dare say that some are just down right 'dorkish' but that's because the model didn't cost very much[huh] (get what you pay for!! ).

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[Dixon Cannon]

I've shown these before, but I'm always proud..

-dixon cannon

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Sadly, I am 'no' Hemingway Jones or Lord Lichfield when it comes to photography, .... ).

Nicely done Paddy! I like #2 personally. Let's look at it in b&w, shall we!? Now, we're talkin'!

-dixon cannon

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Those are great Paddy! Who needs Photoshop!

 

[Smithy]

Awesome photos Paddy, well done and you've captured the feeling of an old era photo very well if you ask me :eusa_clap

So the chap who had that uniform was ex-RAF and more specifically a member of one of the Eagle Squadrons?

 

[PADDY]

Thanks gents! (Photoshop free zone)

Those are great Dixon, thanks for reposting them again!!:eusa_clap

Nothing overly clever to these photos, just a dark room (so night time came in handy!) and a desk lamp that I moved around, with camera on self timer and me doing a five-second dash!! (over cables, chairs and dogs!!).

 

[priestyboy]

Paddy,

The photos you had posted a while back of FL members in uniform is no longer accessible. Any way to re-access them. There were a couple I wanted to use as examples when I take some of my own. Hall Of Honor

 

[KilroyCD]

I've been experimenting with some minor photoshopping to get a vintage feel to some shots. I don't have any USAAF Class A's but my avatar shows me in my RAF Tropicals sitting and reading the latest issue of "Tee Emm".