Backdrops and props

[Armored farmer]

Old Glory makes a nice backdrop.
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You can never get too much corn.

 

[ontarget]

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You can never get too much corn.

Defines the vast majority of the USA right there.
We love our flag, our guns, and our agriculture.

 

[Seedy Character]

Great pics, farmer

 

[Jonny2guns]

Indoor lighting sucks, unless you have all the right gear, and I ain't got it.

 

[Nasty Canasta]

I try to catch them spontaneously in their native habitat rather than staging props & having a photo shoot-those never seem to work out often for me. The one table shot was just emptying out my pockets & unholstering onto a motel table after a long day of motorcycle touring. Was walking back & it it struck me it was a cool moment in time & should capture it-makes we happy when I see it again.


PS-I hate wristwatches in gun photos

 

[CraigC]

Took these at my hunting spot yesterday. The belt rig:



The view in front of me:



And behind:

 

[shoebox1.1]

I try to catch them spontaneously in their native habitat rather than staging props & having a photo shoot-those never seem to work out often for me. The one table shot was just emptying out my pockets & unholstering onto a motel table after a long day of motorcycle touring. Was walking back & it it struck me it was a cool moment in time & should capture it-makes we happy when I see it again.
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PS-I hate wristwatches in gun photos

Wristwatches go wth pipe pictures on my pipe forum lol

 

[CraigC]

And I took this one to share with a watch collector's group, flintlock in hand.

 

[Armored farmer]

Took these at my hunting spot yesterday. The belt rig:

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The view in front of me:

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And behind:

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Gotta love Tennessee (assuming)
...but the rig is exquisite, especially like the knife/sheath.
...very authentic.

 

[Jonny2guns]

Good end of the day!

 

[Jonny2guns]

Took these at my hunting spot yesterday. The belt rig:

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The view in front of me:

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And behind:

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Kinda jealous, miss the woods soooo much and love the knife sheath and belt rig.
Oh, and the wife and I really like Tennessee, we still talk about the couple of times we vacationed there, we gotta get back down.

 

[Pat Riot]

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When I saw this at 3 in the morning on my iPhone I thought the bike seat was on fire.

 

[CraigC]

Kinda jealous, miss the woods soooo much and love the knife sheath and belt rig.
Oh, and the wife and I really like Tennessee, we still talk about the couple of times we vacationed there, we gotta get back down.

This is the first year in quite a while that I haven't seen any deer but it certainly doesn't hurt that the fall colors have been spectacular.

 

[Armored farmer]

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Posted in the wrong thread.

 

[Jonny2guns]

A discussion was started on my forum about different backdrops and I thought my response would make a good thread here. As a long time fan of John Taffin, one of the things that always struck me about his work was the photography, which I eventually learned was his own. It's probably why I've always preferred outdoor backdrops and natural lighting to studio pics. There's a picture in Taffin's first book that really struck me as a perfect sixgun pic. It's a plain blued Vaquero with fancy walnut grips, laying on a pair of leather gloves on top of an old stump. It's still one of my favorite pics.

An early attempt to replicate it from 20yrs ago. My first custom gun and my first digital camera.
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I've also used pallets. This one was nice and "barky".
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Still have this one out in the shop. It spent enough time outside to turn gray.
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This is actually the weathered deck of my flatbed trailer.
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A few years ago I found a section of old barn door at an antique mall. Had to screw it down to a section of plywood to keep it from falling apart.
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The old barn door coupled with a smoked, brain-tanned buckskin.
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Found these old saddlebags at a junk store in the mountains a few years ago.
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Always thought this was one of my best compositions. An old picnic table that was damp from a recent rain. It was still overcast and the lighting was perfect to accentuate the contrast between it and two plated sixguns.
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Two old logs behind the house.
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A good fence post works too!
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We've come full circle. We had a big wind storm two years ago and had some downed trees, so I took the opportunity to use the cuttings as backdrops. They started out looking like this:
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Now they're nice and crusty. I really need to start a new one and keep it up off the ground so it lasts longer:
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So, the bead work in your pics has my wife wanting to know where you got it? Is it yours?

 

[CraigC]

The 6th pic is John Cohea’s work, the rest is mine.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

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Love that old classic Yama-hammer! I can smell the exhaust the 2 cycle exhaust right now.