Jenkins Model Pic (2 Viewers)

WesternOutlaw said:
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Hi Rob,
Thank you and glad you are interested in photographing model planes. Your Zero looks great:salute:: What editing program are you using?

-Moe
 
ivanmoe said:
Thank you and glad you are interested in photographing model planes. Your Zero looks great. What editing program are you using?
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You're most welcome Moe, and it is well deserved. I use Photoshop Elements which I picked up several years ago.
 
WesternOutlaw said:
You're most welcome Moe, and it is well deserved. I use Photoshop Elements which I picked up several years ago.
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PE is a whole lot more sophisticated than what I started out with. For years, I relied almost exclusively on MS-Paint.:eek: Then John Jenkins made fun of my props,:rolleyes: so I migrated to a freeware web-app called Pixlr. That's the proggy that really opened my eyes to how much I could do with a pic from a point-and-shoot camera. These days, I use the Creative Cloud version of Photoshop. Much, much more robust than Pixlr, but it costs $10 a month. One of the principal advantages of the software is its options for blending layers, one atop another, to form a seamless image. When I add something new, a prop, windsock, dust, whatever, I just add and sequence a new layer. It's less hassle than it sounds, and I like the results better. Hah, all for a better propeller on my model picture!:redface2:

-Moe
 
WesternOutlaw said:
You've got a great talent at it! :salute::
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Rob,

For all my shenanigans with PS, I actually don't mess with the models. By that, I mean that I don't manipulate the pictures of the models to make them look better or worse than they actually are. For instance, I don't care for the hinges on some of Jenkins' models. However, I would never edit them out of a pic. That would be kind of lame, in so far as I'd never want collectors to purchase a model, only to have it look different than it does in my image captures. I got started with digital photography because I wanted to celebrate the models, not to pull the wool over anyone's eyes. In the end, the pictures can't appear meaningfully better than the base image itself. A bad pic will inevitably generate a poor composite as well.

Here's a JPG version of the file that I combined with a background for a picture of Udet's Fokker D.VII:

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What you see above was derived from a simple image capture. First, I cleared the background. Then I separated the prop as a second layer, and applied a PS-routine called "spin blur." That's it, the rest of the model is untouched. If I've chosen to elaborate on the process, it's because it was once suggested, on another venue, that I was working for JJD. That was flat out false. If anything, I consider myself something of a "toy soldier consumer advocate," someone who wants you gentlemen to know what you're buying with your hard-earned $$$. If I set the models up against a nice backdrop, it's to stir folks' imagination. That's the long and short of it, at least as far as my methods and motives are concerned.
Thank you for your encouragement and everything that you contribute to TS-collecting,:salute::

-Moe
 
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DH.2 pic, hope it's not too busy...

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-Moe
 
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Bring the collection back down to earth for a bit: ;)

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IMO, the figs are just marvelous. So lifelike!:cool:

-Moe
 
I want to post some pics of Jenkins' BH sets, in part because I don't believe that anyone else has ever done so. The images aren't as slick as much of what I post here, but they likely do give anyone who views them a reasonably good idea of what the collection looks like when most of it's pulled together in a single display in a collector's study. Without further adieu, then, the pictures:

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A wonderful collection. Al your scenes are brought to life because the great variety of poses and the settings you create.

Steve
 
Moe,

Your Bunker Hill collection is astounding, and your photography is excellent!:salute:: All you nees is a bigger blue sky backdrop, and your set up would look real! Love your gun turrets, the bring the carrier deck and the sky together!!
 
THe scenes with the 8" guns in the background stand out (although all are great). Very impressive one-of-a kind series.

BTW, Mike Estell and I have posted pics of our BH collections in the past. :wink2: Chris
 
Terp152 said:
BTW, Mike Estell and I have posted pics of our BH collections in the past. :wink2: Chris
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Hi Chris,

After I posted, I recalled that there had, indeed, been several series of pics devoted to Jenkins' BH sets. Another contributor was Zach Lang. However, in all three cases, a full-moon or two has since the images were posted. Hence, the oversight. :)

-Moe
 
Louis Badolato said:
Moe,

Your Bunker Hill collection is astounding, and your photography is excellent!:salute:: All you nees is a bigger blue sky backdrop, and your set up would look real! Love your gun turrets, the bring the carrier deck and the sky together!!
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Hi Louis,

I've got a cast-iron, pedestal table coming and will use plywood as a foundation for the deck. The blue foamboard that you see is 30" wide, the same width as the the deck. However, I may actually eschew a backdrop for anything other than taking pictures. Ultimately, I want to put the display under glass. Thank you for the encouragement:D

-Moe
 
lancer said:
What a gorgeous picture. I admire your adherence to accuracy as well as I see the period correct Fokker Eindecker falling in flames. -- Al
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Al, thank you.

Glad that I could work the Eindecker and DH2 into a picture together!

-Moe
 
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