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Film/Camera question?

posted 13 years ago by TheGraveLittleToaster
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/US_Navy_070919-N-53 19A-011_A_Sailor_shows_off_the_prototype_uniform_for_service_dress_kha ki,_a_throwback_to_the_traditional_WWII_style_uniform.jpg

This is a picture from 2007, yet it looks like a WWII-era color photograph (Not just because he's a sailor either, it's the actual quality and appearance). I'm by no means a "photographer", so forgive my ignorance, but how can you take pictures that have this "look"?

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[–] Red_Barn 13 years ago

The colour in that picture is quite unlike the colours normally used in 1940s colour photography. The image you showed looks like it has 2 light sources to me; one is the sun and the other is either a reflector or artificial lights. Note how there are shadows to his right (as you look at the image), and also a shadow to the left of his nose and to the left of the buttons. So, main light left, fill light right.

The photographer should have been more careful to get the face sharp. It has probably been post-processed a little too. I could improve it with a bit of work - it's far too pale for one thing.

[–] IndieMuffin 12 years ago

I think there was definitely a flash involved, because the light ends abruptly under his knees.

It's hard to tell where the flash was directed from, but I'm pretty sure it's from the our right side and the second light source is the sun probably behind him to his right.

As Red Barn has already pointed out, there may have been a reflective surface involved to fill in the shadows, most certainly a bronze / golden one telling from the tone.

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