Retro Cool

thomthom

I came across the LEGO variant a few weeks ago - found a high-res version which I'll make into an A2 print on aluminum.

michaliszissiou

Ebbets famous photos.
I know, they may be authentic in some way, some of them.

Can you please, explain the halo lighting around some figures? This indicates editing.
In some of these photos, watch the DOF, inconsistency? Yeah, the front buildings are in focus, same the figures that are very close to camera.

Anyway retro cool.
My favorites

Voroshilov,_Molotov,_Stalin,_with_Nikolai_Yezhov.jpg

Dave R

Keep in mind that in those days, the air in the cities was a whole lot thicker than it is these days. Lots of coal being burned and no regulations on pollution.

Those images are on some larger format film--notice the camera in the hands of the photographer. Probably 4x5 or possibly a 5x7 camera. Hand holding a camera like that means he was probably not focusing it on his subjects but just setting the focus more by guess. He'd know the depth of field range for the aperture he's using and set the focus so his most distant subject is near the far end of the range. I expect the halo at the center of the images is probably due to issues with the lens, shutter and the aperture. A leaf shutter opens from the center outward and at high (relatively speaking) shutter speeds, the center of the image receives more light than the edges.

michaliszissiou

@Dave R
I love these old cameras, I know what you mean but this isn't the case.
There's a halo around the figures. Not an aperture neither a vignette effect. It's definitely a retouching. If it's a hoax, I can't be sure.

andybot

@michaliszissiou said:

@Dave R
I love these old cameras, I know what you mean but this isn't the case.
There's a halo around the figures. Not an aperture neither a vignette effect. It's definitely a retouching. If it's a hoax, I can't be sure.

It could also just be a darkroom thing - if the print was made by burning and dodging around the figures, the background around them would be blown out.

michaliszissiou

See, on the last photo I posted, Lenin and Molotov. Around Molotov's figure there's a halo too. Very common on old photos. Adopted from oil painting technics.
However, you may think that it's another fake photo and you may be right. We weren't there. Photos aren't real documents, always, they never were. Long time before Ps.

Daniel

I did some reading up on "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," and it was interesting. The photographer wasn't identified until fairly recently. Although staged, the photo wasn't faked. The halo you see are actually clouds in the background, they are so high up. Also, unkown to viewers, there is a roof surface a few stories below, so if they fell they wouldn't have had too far to go.

I remember seeing film of steel workers on skyscrapers. It seemed to defy logic (and prudence) to be so high up and walking on such narrow steel beams, before the age of safety harnesses, but they did it.

Daniel

Michel, looking at the photos of Lenin with and without Molotov, what jumps out immediately is that the second image has less resolution, so it's hard to compare the two. It appears there is a lot of light reflecting off the river, and possibly off the white wall in the background. I wonder if what you are seeing as a halo is not a lot of reflected light behind the figure.

michaliszissiou

Daniel, not a halo, an editing again. I wonder if Molotov is a fake.
The scale of these figures is a bit... out of scale. I wonder.
Is there anything true on these photos?

boofredlay

Meanwhile, back on topic...

@unknownuser said:

The Douglas TB2D Skypirate was a torpedo bomber intended for service with the US Navy’s aircraft carriers. Two prototypes were completed, but the dedicated torpedo bomber was becoming an outdated concept and with the end of World War II, the type was no longer needed, resulting in the project’s cancellation.

Marian

Neat!

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/03/captured-killinger-and-freund-motorcyle-1945killinger-and-freund-motorcyle-1935/

andybot

@unknownuser said:

The Douglas TB2D Skypirate was a torpedo bomber
what's to distinguish this from other WWII planes? Just curious what you find retro cool about it. (looks sorta like the corsair)

now that motorcycle - awesome!!