WW2, Guns and Trains

[dontshoot]

Hi new user here, well new canon user.. infact new photographer here.

Very first ever photo session with a Digital SLR camera, last time I used one I was 15 in a photography workshop thing, so be gentle :neutral:

Some photos I took of World war II Re-Enactors using my 300D and the only lense to my name. I really need to get a selection of lenses.


The day was faily overcast but hopefully asome of these photos were fairly okay ?

http://www.redesign3d.com/photos/pt1.jpg



http://www.redesign3d.com/photos/pt3.jpg

http://www.redesign3d.com/photos/pt6.jpg

http://www.redesign3d.com/photos/pt7.jpg


Hope that didnt fry anyones modems :| Comments please :)

[Ballen Photo]

Hi "Dont Shoot", Welcome to the forum, and Congrats on your very first post having photos included. :D
That's an interesting comp in the first shot (I like diagonal comps).
On the last shot, hind sight would tell me to raise the camera a wee bit to eliminate the concrete barrier. All in all, I think you did OK for your first posting here.
Are you in Europe somewhere? Seems to me that another poster had shown a photo of a WW 2 reinactment that included train tracks and scenery similiar to yours. If memory serves, that poster was in Europe or England, and that's why I ask. :rolleyes:
-Bruce

[dontshoot]

Thanks Ballen Photo :)

I live in Wales, United Kingdom (better update my profile :rolleyes: ). I was taking photos of a Re-Enactment at the forest of Dean Railway, Beutiful location.

Heres a photo pf a person, Im a little shy of asking people to pose atm :oops:

http://www.redesign3d.com/photos/pt9.jpg

[CyberDyneSystems]

The first B&W pic is really pretty frightening as it looks so authentic... if you added a sepia tint and some film grain I would have just assumed it was historic..

Nice work.

[dontshoot]

The first B&W pic is really pretty frightening as it looks so authentic... if you added a sepia tint and some film grain I would have just assumed it was historic..

Nice work.

Thanks :) I was trying to compose the photos so they had as little modern components in them as possible.

I was wondering off a way to add a sepia tint, I do have adobe photoshop CS I played around with a few functions but I could not find any that provided a satisfactory result :|. I wouldent mind a sepia tinted printout for my wall :)

[Ballen Photo]

Heres a photo pf a person, Im a little shy of asking people to pose atm :oops:


Dont be shy now, these guys were probably hoping you would ask them to pose for the camera. ;)
-Bruce

[dontshoot]

Dont be shy now, these guys were probably hoping you would ask them to pose for the camera. ;)
-Bruce

I think one of the girls who was dressed up to the max got a little upset because I didnt take a photo of her.. she kept looking over to me and striking poses... But she didnt move away from the beer tent and loudspeaker system :|, whats the point of taking a picture of a person in 1940's clothing with a reak dead ferret over their shoulder when thir standing next to a PA speaker :| If I wasnt a little more experianced and confident I would have asked her to move to the platform to pose.

Being a Napoleonic Re-Enactor I know that most re-enactors thrive on having their photos taken due to the ammount of time put into the costumes, many a time have I become the will less photo subject for a press photographer.

I notice most of the press photographers have such a great charisma that It they said "I think it would be cool if you jump down that steep embankment " risking life and lim you know it would be worth it because this guy is going to get a great photo.

[Ballen Photo]

Being a Napoleonic Re-Enactor I know that most re-enactors thrive on having their photos taken due to the ammount of time put into the costumes, many a time have I become the will less photo subject for a press photographer.


Dont You just know they're waiting for you to ask.
I was at The Renaissance fair here in Vegas a few years back when I spied this troup of Girls walking through the fair and asked them if I could take their photo. They immediately struck an obviously well rehearsed pose while saying YES!
-Bruce
http://www.fototime.com/6F194E584FD2458/standard.jpg

[Vetteography]

The first two are excellent! Very realistic. I would love to go and watch a reenactment!

[hollow]

The first B&W pic is really pretty frightening as it looks so authentic... if you added a sepia tint and some film grain I would have just assumed it was historic..

Nice work.

:shock::shock::shock: that's EXACTLY what I've taught when I've first seen the pictures ! Especially the first and fourth ones. :)

[Michaelmjc]

Congratulations on the new camera, and welcome to the forum. The pictures look good, keep em comin.

[dontshoot]

Mmm Sapia.


Trying to get sapia look is a bit hard since I have little photos to compare them to , I was trying to match some old photos my parents had of my grandmothers wedding. Printed on this cardboard as far as I can see, Dont want to handle them too much :confused:

Wondering about popping them into my canon lide Scanner. ???

I dont know about making it more grainy yet :|

http://www.redesign3d.com/photos/pt11.jpg
This guy was moving fast managed to pan at the same speed, seems to have worked after a fasion, need to play with slower shutter speeds :D, nothing compared to moterbikes or cars, or planes, or all the other things that whizz by and can kinda hurt if they hit you :P

http://www.redesign3d.com/photos/pt12.jpg

A picture of the guys with noisey machine gun. :)

and yes that is a teddy on his backpack :| I printed a few of these photos out for the girls who came along, When I asked them whats the best part of the day. The teddy -.-

[BottomBracket]

Wow, those pics look like they were taken more than half a century ago. Well done. The sepia tint does make it look better.

[DocFrankenstein]

http://www.redesign3d.com/photos/pt7.jpg


This looks more WW1... :confused:


But great pictures overall... with sepia tint you can't tell the difference.

[stoneylonesome]

Great series of shots. Thanks for sharing