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Shen45
4-Jan-2011, 16:05
As most threads run the risk of being hijacked why not have a thread that has very little chance of being sidetracked. The content will also be fairly obvious. So lets see who really has the biggest and the best "family" protector.

Randy
8-Jan-2011, 13:38
Me lady & Ruger New Model Blackhawk .357

8X10 Fulmer & Schwing
Schneider Kreuznach 300mm

http://rsphoto.fileave.com/linda2a.jpg

BetterSense
8-Jan-2011, 13:49
I don't have many LF gun pictures. I have been inspired to shoot some.

civich
8-Jan-2011, 17:53
Randy,
Beautiful lady. The pistol lends tension and excitement but the bare feet make the shot.
-Chris

Steve M Hostetter
8-Jan-2011, 18:12
reminds me of the days when my ex-wife would scare off peeping Toms

she just loved the kick of that hammer

Frank Petronio
8-Jan-2011, 19:01
Me lady & Ruger New Model Blackhawk .357

8X10 Fulmer & Schwing
Schneider Kreuznach 300mm

I'd trade prints with you for this, it's art.

eddie
8-Jan-2011, 19:23
oh boy! time to dust off the cabinet!

5x7 wet plate collodion.

Sam Thompson
8-Jan-2011, 21:16
I'd trade prints with you for this, it's art.

True dat.

Gary Sommer
8-Jan-2011, 23:24
Oh boy, Eddie, the only thing better than a short slide 1911 is a pair of them.:)

Beautiful pictures also

Gary

eddie
9-Jan-2011, 04:35
Oh boy, Eddie, the only thing better than a short slide 1911 is a pair of them.:)

Beautiful pictures also

Gary

har har har....one for summer one for winter. i love em both. both are smaller carry and conceal pieces the small one with an alloy frame....so it wont pull down my shorts in august....:)

Jeicob
9-Jan-2011, 05:43
I'd trade prints with you for this, it's art.
How about some tattoos Frank?

Ken Kapinski
9-Jan-2011, 12:56
So how about this. Shiloh (http://www.shilohrifle.com/)Sharps 1874 falling block, 45-110 cartridge. I'm sure most of you have seen the movie Quigley Down Under. This is the same model rifle used in that movie. I believe this model was actually made for the movie then offered as a catalog option. For those not up on early American cartridge naming....i.e 45-110. 45 is the caliber in inches, in this example .459 inches. 110 is grains of black powder in the case. There are 7000 grains in a pound. Sometimes the bullet weight in grains is attached to the name. So this cartridge that I shoot might be called 45-110-540. Now, the older guns might have just caliber and case length engraved on them. So this gun is labeled .45 2 7/8" and the ammo company would label the cartridge depending on bullet and powder weight.

Ken


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nRtb8n1r1RM/TSoI4E5g1RI/AAAAAAAAAT0/43lfwOgNA84/s1600/Sharps%2Bcopy.jpg
Shen-Hao TZ45IIB, Nikon 200M

goamules
9-Jan-2011, 13:23
Halfplate collodion rinsing. Unfortunately, I gave to the customer so there's no scan:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1159/5115283768_b8986391e5_o.jpg

Vick Vickery
9-Jan-2011, 16:15
Er...Eddie, was your pic flipped or is somebody making left-side ejection 1911's now???

windpointphoto
9-Jan-2011, 18:37
.45 with 14 hollow points and an attitude.

Jay Decker
9-Jan-2011, 21:27
Me lady & Ruger New Model Blackhawk .357

8X10 Fulmer & Schwing
Schneider Kreuznach 300mm

Randy > any significance to keeping your woman barefoot and armed?

eddie
9-Jan-2011, 23:27
Er...Eddie, was your pic flipped or is somebody making left-side ejection 1911's now???

it is a positive collodion image on aluminum. it is basically an underexposed negative with a black backing making it appear a positive. because it is black aluminum it is not possible to flip the neg over to view it.

BenjaminUK
10-Jan-2011, 03:54
Hello! First photo is great!!!

Randy
10-Jan-2011, 06:25
Randy > any significance to keeping your woman barefoot and armed?

Obviously, she does what she wants.

Jay Decker
10-Jan-2011, 07:15
Randy > any significance to keeping your woman barefoot and armed?
Obviously, she does what she wants.

Great photograph! And, good luck on staying on her better side... :D

lenicolas
11-Jan-2011, 09:41
hehe, that's a fun thread...
Guns are illegal here in France, is a knife ok?

BetterSense
11-Jan-2011, 10:08
I for one welcome a motion to extend the thread to any type of weapon.

rguinter
11-Jan-2011, 10:17
Me lady & Ruger New Model Blackhawk .357

8X10 Fulmer & Schwing
Schneider Kreuznach 300mm

Randy:

Beautiful!

I have the guns... does she have a sister?

Bob G.

Randy
12-Jan-2011, 17:16
Randy:

Beautiful!

I have the guns... does she have a sister?

Bob G.

Yes, two sisters. She'll get a kick out of this.
Would you guess she is 50 years old :)

Vaughn
12-Jan-2011, 17:42
...Would you guess she is 50 years old :)

Not when a woman has a gun in her hand -- in those cases I tend to lowball the figure...

Jay Decker
12-Jan-2011, 19:27
Would you guess she is 50 years old :)

She's a babe! You are a lucky man!

Armin Seeholzer
13-Jan-2011, 02:32
Leonard this is a very good one it say's all without words, your comment was not needed,lol!

Cheeers Armin

Robert Hughes
13-Jan-2011, 11:01
Any LF photogs working in Tucson the last few days?

rguinter
13-Jan-2011, 11:19
Yes, two sisters. She'll get a kick out of this.
Would you guess she is 50 years old :)

No I wouldn't have guessed.

So maybe there's still hope for me.

I guess I need to move out your way...

Cheers

Bob G.

Leigh
13-Jan-2011, 13:57
Would you guess she is 50 years old :)
No.

That's what happens when a lady takes care of herself. She looks like she's 20.

Absolutely lovely (and dangerous).

- Leigh

Stephane
16-Jan-2011, 12:38
Kaluma and Yvonne through a Veritar
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5047/5361241850_a16945291a_b.jpg

Jay Decker
16-Jan-2011, 12:44
Kaluma and Yvonne through a Veritar

Stephane - is a real gun or just a prop? Looks like a prop to me... although those two are dynamite!

Sexy photo with a little bit of humor and edge - well done! Thanks for sharing!

Stephane
16-Jan-2011, 12:53
Jay, thank you!
I think is was a real gun, until the canon was filled with metal. Maybe not, I dont know much about guns (I avoided the French army by studying longer in South Africa).

Leigh
16-Jan-2011, 13:05
is a real gun or just a prop?
It's a prop...

real guns don't have a mold seam in the frame in front of the trigger guard as this one does
real guns have a spring around the ejector rod that would be visible from this angle


Nice shot (photograph).

- Leigh

Iga
29-Jan-2011, 13:14
Well, not a gun, just empty box, now used as "safe deposit" by my daughter.
5x7 contact print
Igor.

Ken Kapinski
24-Feb-2011, 21:52
Here is a new one, Kimber 45. Not so sure I like this one. The background seems a little busy and the gun kind of disappears into it. Don't really like the shadows much either. Kind of limited with lights right now. I am using two Nikon speed lights, an SB600 and an SB26. Both at full power right on top of the gun to get me f32. Probably going to re-shoot this, different background, play with the lights. What do you think.

Ken


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wve6WkHiytM/TWcy0nZS_0I/AAAAAAAAAUY/8S3b0zgRyEk/s1600/Kimber%2Bcopy.jpg

Horseman, Nikon 150w, Arista EDU Ultra 100

Robert Hughes
25-Feb-2011, 09:50
As Nicolas Cage said in "Lord of War", people sell cars and cigarettes every day, at least what he sells comes with a safety switch

jp
25-Feb-2011, 10:17
To smooth out or remove the shadows, you'll want an white umbrella or a softbox. If you're broke, make a softbox yourself or use a foamcore reflector to diffuse the light.

I kinda like the hard light sometimes with subjects like this. With a little bit of tilt, you could be able to get things in focus with a bigger aperture if needed.

I think the background is decent, but I'd probably put a used paper target under it... I think I'm getting ideas to try myself.. I don't have time to do that at home though, even though this is a cool thread.

Peter De Smidt
25-Feb-2011, 20:36
Ken, I agree about the background. It works better in the color picture. As jp498 said, to soften the light either bounce it off of something white, or shoot it through some white diffusion material. You can always use multiple pops of the flash if you don't have enough light.

Ken Kapinski
25-Feb-2011, 22:28
Thank you jp498 and Peter for your thoughts and suggestions. I do have a small umbrella, not really sure why I didn't use it. I guess I was thinking f32, need more light. The multiple pops would have solved that. Always learning.....


Ken

Brian C. Miller
25-Feb-2011, 22:37
How about a background that's completely unexpected? Like rose petals, or Care Bears, My Little Ponies or something like that. Ann Geddes type stuff for the contrast. (Baby got Browning)

jp
26-Feb-2011, 05:34
I was just thinking some more and thought long hard shadows (like bright golden hour shadows) coming down from the pistol and bullets would be cool. Lighter background of course. And perhaps prop the pistol up so it has a pistol shaped shadow. I have some other ideas too and am now inspired to try something.

Mark Sampson
26-Feb-2011, 06:44
The best gun illustration I've ever seen was the sleeve photo on Warren Zevon's 'Excitable Boy' record, c.1978. A .44 Colt Python presented as dinner, on a plate with vegetables... the baby carrots were carved to look like bullets. Almost life-size on the 12" square album cover. I wonder if that image is on the net?

RickV
26-Feb-2011, 06:57
you can find it at
http://www.allcdcovers.com/download/96328fc9e0811a2cde10c6dc7ecbc191/36878/4a8a49f0759c086eff903044f30d1f9e/4d69063c/warren_zevon_excitable_boy_1990_retail_cd-inside

Jeicob
26-Feb-2011, 23:36
I would be tempted to photograph one in a medicine cabinet, along with strong prescription medication for a troubled mind.

walter23
27-Feb-2011, 00:01
How about a background that's completely unexpected? Like rose petals, or Care Bears, My Little Ponies or something like that. Ann Geddes type stuff for the contrast. (Baby got Browning)

Or maybe a trashed living-room scattered with broken malt liquor bottles and crumpled grease-stained McDonald's paper bags. A busted banjo with strings flying out in disarray from the snapped neck lays on the floor next to a wall with banjo sized holes in the drywall. The coffee table is covered with unpaid bills piled up in disarray and empty beer cans with cigarette butts and ashes spilling out from their tops. A big unshaven dude is passed out on the couch in his coveralls with a shotgun clutched to his chest, and on the wall is a yellowed and dog-eared poster of a proud bald eagle on a waving Old Glory background.

Brian C. Miller
27-Feb-2011, 00:28
A big unshaven dude is passed out on the couch in his coveralls with a shotgun clutched to his chest, ...

No, that's the expected background. The other expected background is one with gangbangers. (I saw a video of some gangbanger at his birthday party handing his loaded pistol to his two-year-old son.) The suave background is the James Bond setting.

How about warped fun-house mirrors?

Roger Cole
27-Feb-2011, 02:22
I don't have many LF gun pictures. I have been inspired to shoot some.

+1. I hadn't really thought of my guns as still life subjects before (or props in portraits as so excellently done in the first photo in the thread) but it's a good idea.


.45 with 14 hollow points and an attitude.

This one would look better to me if she were pointing it directly at the camera. As it is, it looks like she has murderous intent toward the viewer's left ear. (May not have known enough about guns to aim quite at the lens?)

Peter Mounier
27-Feb-2011, 09:05
May not have known enough about guns to aim quite at the lens?

Maybe knows just enough about guns to not aim it directly at the photographer.

Or, more likely, the photographer said, DON'T AIM THAT THING DIRECTLY AT ME!!!

Peter

Roger Cole
27-Feb-2011, 10:44
Maybe knows just enough about guns to not aim it directly at the photographer.

Or, more likely, the photographer said, DON'T AIM THAT THING DIRECTLY AT ME!!!

Peter

Been around guns all my life and I'd shoot (in photography) the photo with it pointed directly at the camera - AFTER I checked it thoroughly. No matter what anyone says, no one has EVER been shot with an unloaded gun. They've been shot with guns they THOUGHT were unloaded, which is a very different thing. Besides, being two or three inches off like that wouldn't exactly inspire a different level of confidence. If I hadn't checked it thoroughly enough to be comfortable with it pointed at me, I wouldn't be comfortable with it pointed that closely either.

Mike Lopez
27-Feb-2011, 10:57
Ken, this is a wonderful photograph. Thanks for sharing. The composition is everything.



So how about this. Shiloh (http://www.shilohrifle.com/)Sharps 1874 falling block, 45-110 cartridge. I'm sure most of you have seen the movie Quigley Down Under. This is the same model rifle used in that movie. I believe this model was actually made for the movie then offered as a catalog option. For those not up on early American cartridge naming....i.e 45-110. 45 is the caliber in inches, in this example .459 inches. 110 is grains of black powder in the case. There are 7000 grains in a pound. Sometimes the bullet weight in grains is attached to the name. So this cartridge that I shoot might be called 45-110-540. Now, the older guns might have just caliber and case length engraved on them. So this gun is labeled .45 2 7/8" and the ammo company would label the cartridge depending on bullet and powder weight.

Ken

Shen-Hao TZ45IIB, Nikon 200M

Ken Kapinski
27-Feb-2011, 21:02
Thank you Mike.

Roger Cole
27-Feb-2011, 21:36
I really like that a lot too, Ken.

Peter Mounier
28-Feb-2011, 13:03
I shot this about 20 years ago. C-41 film, probably some variation of Vericolor, no other data available.

http://www.morrobaygiclee.com/Guns_1.jpg

Peter

Joe Forks
10-Apr-2011, 08:34
airsoft

TK45, Fuji 250 SF, F9 with yellow disk, TMX 100, Pyro MC

I did this as a quick test before making some portraits. The test came out fine and the portraits had giant light leaks hahaha - think I didn't have the bellows seated correctly gosh durnit.

GSX4
14-Apr-2011, 06:07
Here are a few of my latest creations...

Both shot on a Chamonix 45-1N and home made plate holder... The dagger was shot on black acrylic... (acrylotype)

both were shot with a Darlot lantern lens.