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M38A1

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Digging through some old pictures (Nov 1941, pre-Pearl Harbor by a month) I came across a couple of my great uncle stationed at Pearl Harbor. As it was cold out and I needed a shot for Project 365 I came up with this concept. Is this 'workable' for old photos to put them in context with a model and props?


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Sounds to me your just looking for an excuse to play with military toys.
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I like it! :thumb:
 
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If you had an old patch or insignia instead of the jeep, I think that would be more in line with the aged photos.
 
I like this a lot.

The patch idea is a good one too.

Overall, I think that this is a great concept and worthy of printing. Well done.
 
I like it but it leaves me wondering how he came out of Dec. 11 and how he came out of the war. Do you have a picture later during the war or after the war?
 
sourdough said:
I like it but it leaves me wondering how he came out of Dec. 11 and how he came out of the war. Do you have a picture later during the war or after the war?
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I think you mean Dec. 7, 1941. You might have been trying to combine two days in your thinking to include 9/11.
 
sourdough said:
I like it but it leaves me wondering how he came out of Dec. 11 and how he came out of the war. Do you have a picture later during the war or after the war?
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Uncle Walt as I knew him was at Pearl Harbor that horrific day, Dec 7th, 1941. When the attack started, he ran across base, jumped in a small watercraft and motored across the harbor where he manned an anti-aircraft battery. He went on to serve the rest of WWII, Korea and became a photographer finally retiring after a full career in the Army.

On a photographic note, I've got some of his medium frame negatives of atomic explosions he shot. Someday I'll have them printed, but I know from looking at them he was close.... Very very close. He finally died of multiple cancers but the military closed every door possible for a claim that the photography so close was radiation related.





XoZe said:
Why not PP the jeep to look "aged" as well?
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Generally what tools would be used to do that? ie: what brushes in Photoshop or PS-Elements. I might give that a try. On the flipside, I could always get my friends to loan me their pre-war jeeps, full size which have that 'aged' look all by themselves!

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Have you tried putting the photos up behind the jeep.....kinda of on an angle "framing" the jeep? Might be a neat look.....also a good excuse to put together a "product box" :trust:

Like this:

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Me thinks I'll have to check into that one. For now I've just draped a black pc of fabric over my monitor and across the working surface of the desk. Hey - it works!

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M38A1 said:
Me thinks I'll have to check into that one. For now I've just draped a black pc of fabric over my monitor and across the working surface of the desk. Hey - it works!

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Done that one also.

Here is my homemade product box:

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Just some white board from a hobby shop, the "windows" and duct tape come from Home Depot. I also have black boards to put inside of it if I want that look.

It was a nice rainy day project.
 
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