Aviatrix

rwells

Since Jack was so nice as to teach me a new word (aviatrix), I thought I'd post another one of her...

kdog

Great shot, Randy.

-joel

rwells

kdog wrote:

Great shot, Randy.

-joel

Thanks Joel,

I slid another image in after you commented.

DaddyO

Just excellent. Love the feel of both of them.

anwmn1

Both of these are very nice shots Randy.

In the first one though her hand is quite purple. Might try to rework that area.

rwells

DaddyO wrote:

Just excellent. Love the feel of both of them.

Thanks Michael

rwells

anwmn1 wrote:

Both of these are very nice shots Randy.

In the first one though her hand is quite purple. Might try to rework that area.

Hey Aaron,

Ok, I reworked the hands.

Thanks!

black mamba

Yo Randy,

More good work here. Even though I'm a known color freak, I actually prefer the B&W treatment of this series.....it's more adept at creating the vintage look. I flew an old plane like that one about a month ago. It belongs to a friend. His is actually the Navy version of that plane....called an SNJ. There are probably more Air Force versions around. They are called the AT6 Texan.

Take care,

Tom

Eia

Another excellent set - I like the second one the best!

rwells

black mamba wrote:

Yo Randy,

More good work here. Even though I'm a known color freak, I actually prefer the B&W treatment of this series.....it's more adept at creating the vintage look. I flew an old plane like that one about a month ago. It belongs to a friend. His is actually the Navy version of that plane....called an SNJ. There are probably more Air Force versions around. They are called the AT6 Texan.

Take care,

Tom

Your a pilot? Yet another surprise. Your like an onion Tom: Several layers to be peeled back

Man, I would LOVE to go up in one of those! There were three T6's at our shoot.

rwells

Eia wrote:

Another excellent set - I like the second one the best!

Thanks for weighing in Eia ~ looks like "old" is new again (That sounded a little strange; Of course I was talking about the image look)

black mamba

Randy,

Yea, I've been flying planes since the early 60's. I've kind of slacked off some over the last number of years, but I flew a lot at one time. I had wanted to be a jet jockey in the Air Force, but a bad back ( injured in an accident ) kept that from happening. Recently, I've considered getting a relatively new class of plane called Light Sport Aircraft....just something to get off the ground and cruise around a little. They're limited to VFR ( visual flight rules ) flying and are designed for " low and slow " going....just something to scooter-poot around in.

Take care,

Tom

Panther

Howdy Randy,

WOW Love these, especially that first one and her reflection in the Prop, that's really a nice touch.

The great processing of both images really make them shine!!!

Very nicely done!!!

Dogdots

#1 is my pick

rwells

black mamba wrote:

Randy,

Yea, I've been flying planes since the early 60's. I've kind of slacked off some over the last number of years, but I flew a lot at one time. I had wanted to be a jet jockey in the Air Force, but a bad back ( injured in an accident ) kept that from happening. Recently, I've considered getting a relatively new class of plane called Light Sport Aircraft....just something to get off the ground and cruise around a little. They're limited to VFR ( visual flight rules ) flying and are designed for " low and slow " going....just something to scooter-poot around in.

Take care,

Tom

Those look like a lot of fun Tom. Come pick me up some time

rwells

Panther wrote:

Howdy Randy,

WOW Love these, especially that first one and her reflection in the Prop, that's really a nice touch.

The great processing of both images really make them shine!!!

Very nicely done!!!

Thanks Craig,

Just wanted to cover a wide range of processing with these two.

rwells

Dogdots wrote:

#1 is my pick

Hey Mary,

Thanks for the input!

Jack'll do

Howdy Randy

Great set! You have really got this ageing process perfected. The color versions bring to mind the covers of some Popular Mechanics magazines from the 1940's that I came across while cleaning out my parents home after they passed.

eL eSs Vee

Wow, Randy! Very nice shots!

lizzard_nyc

Randy,
The treatment on #2 is fantastic!
I was trying to enter a shot into the MC6 challenge but I needed the shot to be "aged" looking--in my mind's eye I could see it clearly and your version is exactly what I had in mind.


I like your entire series--but now #2 on this post is my new favorite.

lizzard_nyc

Randy,
This will attest to just how much I liked #2 that I hopped on the internet and tried to figure out if there was a way to add textures through "picnick" the free editing softward on smugmug.

I was able to add a texture I really liked to my "senorita" shot for the challenge directly thru "Picnick".

I can't believe this is available to me.

Thanks Randy--Your shot was the shove I needed.

rwells

Jack'll do wrote:

Howdy Randy

Great set! You have really got this ageing process perfected. The color versions bring to mind the covers of some Popular Mechanics magazines from the 1940's that I came across while cleaning out my parents home after they passed.

That's exactly what my mirror tells me every day


I'm still not there on the "pinup" processing yet, but I think this is moving in the right direction.

Thanks again Jack for the vocabulary lesson

rwells

eL eSs Vee wrote:

Wow, Randy! Very nice shots!

Thanks Lee,

Hope life is treating you well.

rwells

lizzard_nyc wrote:

Randy,
The treatment on #2 is fantastic!
I was trying to enter a shot into the MC6 challenge but I needed the shot to be "aged" looking--in my mind's eye I could see it clearly and your version is exactly what I had in mind.


I like your entire series--but now #2 on this post is my new favorite.

Thanks for the comments Liz,

You know, if you look at a bunch of old photographs, you'll quickly see that there is a huge spectrum of what "old" photographs looked like. I guess the term "old" covers a lot of time and technology. Some old images are washed-out with little contrast. Others are extreme with contrast ~ blown highlights and plugged shadows.

I think the hard part is choosing a processing that matches what "you" think the image would have looked like. Note that in real life it could have been any of those looks.

Anyway, thanks for looking and the kind words!

rwells

lizzard_nyc wrote:

Randy,
This will attest to just how much I liked #2 that I hopped on the internet and tried to figure out if there was a way to add textures through "picnick" the free editing softward on smugmug.

I was able to add a texture I really liked to my "senorita" shot for the challenge directly thru "Picnick".

I can't believe this is available to me.

Thanks Randy--Your shot was the shove I needed.

I'm glad that my images were of some benefit to you

richtersl

Randy, the sepia version is fantastic!

JChurill

Nicely done!