[QUOTE=Scot;52811070]New York City before the rise of cars
[t]http://u.cubeupload.com/callumshell1/1500394346398.jpg[/t]
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imagine living in the world of the horse and cart, and looking up at those buildings.
Coming to a city like that for the first time must've been absolutely awe inspiring, mankind's potential must've looked fucking infinite. They knew what they were doing when they designed their buildings to look like that. What an image.
As awesome and surreal cities like that were, the thought of having to walk miles just to see the horizon gives me anxiety
[QUOTE=piddlezmcfuz;52814998]As awesome and surreal cities like that were, the thought of having to walk miles just to see the horizon gives me anxiety[/QUOTE]
Having grown up in Lofoten, Norway, it's very odd to me to go to places where the horizon consists of anything other than mountains or ocean.
[QUOTE=Paul-Simon;52815366]Having grown up in Lofoten, Norway, it's very odd to me to go to places where the horizon consists of anything other than mountains or ocean.[/QUOTE]
Yeah whenever I go down to England it's always a bit weird with how flat it is. And don't even get me started on the Netherlands.
[IMG]https://78.media.tumblr.com/ec501c0404474d614ce9bb5e73f1590f/tumblr_oyb3vxAlRv1s7e5k5o1_540.png[/IMG]
Doodles drawn by Mehmed the Conqueror, aged 10
those faces are better than anything i could've drawn at that age
Stumbled across some colour and - especially for the time - really high resolution photos by an Alfred T. Palmer from WWII US:
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Alfred_Palmer%2C_Phosphate_smelting_furnace_worker%2C_Muscle_Shoals%2C_Alabama%2C_1942.jpg[/t][t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/AlfredPalmerRamos.jpg[/t]
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Welder_at_work_on_Douglas_Dam1a35269v.jpg[/t][t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Tightening_a_nut_on_a_guide_vane_operating_seromotor_in_TVA%27s_hydroelectric_plant%2C_Watts_Bar_Dam%2C_Tennessee.jpg[/t]
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/AlfredPalmermechanic.jpg[/t][t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Carpenter_at_the_TVA%27s_Douglas_dam_on_the_French_Broad_River%2C_Tenn.jpg[/t]
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Operating_a_hand_drill_this_woman_worker_is_shown_working_on_the_horizontal_stabilizer.jpg[/t][t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/This_woman_worker_at_the_Vultee-Nashville_is_shown_making_final_adjustments_in_the_wheel_well_of_an_inner_wing_before_the_installation_of_the_landing_gear.jpg[/t]
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Woman_worker_in_the_Douglas_Aircraft_Company_plant1942.jpg[/t][t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Clerk_in_a_stock_rooms_of_North_American_Aviation_checking_the_numbers_of_parts_-_Inglewood_Cal.jpg[/t]
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Part_of_the_cowling_for_one_of_the_motors_for_a_B-25_bomber_is_assembled_in_the_engine_department_of_North_American_Aviation.jpg[/t][t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Riveting_team2.jpg[/t]
Pretty cool shit - there are more on wikimedia: [url]https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Photographs_by_Alfred_T._Palmer&fileuntil=Marine+glider+at+Page+Field+1a35110v.jpg#mw-category-media[/url]
Sorry if I just completely shat on someone's dial up, but hey, now you don't have to seek out the good pictures yourself.
I find the light balance interesting. Did colour film of the era need a strong flash even in daytime photography?
[QUOTE=download;52830104]I find the light balance interesting. Did colour film of the era need a strong flash even in daytime photography?[/QUOTE]
Yeah I noticed as well - some of them look like they were done with a black backdrop (even though they were on location), and especially the guy the the red helmet basically has light emanating from him.
Apparently those photos were shot on Kodachrome 35mm, which according to [url=http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/14/arts/camera-kodachrome-offers-a-speedier-film.html]this article from 1986[/url] had an ISO of 10. Considering how sharp those images are, I guess he used a pretty low shutter speed as well, so he just had to bathe the subjects in light? These photos were meant for propaganda, so I guess he had the resources to do so. I'm really not very knowledgeable when it comes to photography, though.
It's probably just very slow film, maybe ISO 50 or so.
[editline]28th October 2017[/editline]
Oh, there was a new page my bad.
Interesting that the film is ISO 10 though!
It's weird how the resolution in those pictures makes it feel more relatable.. like they were taken recently instead of years ago. When you see black and white pictures, or pictures that are obviously old, it sort of disconnects you from the situation. Like the guy in the picture could be your neighbor and not some distant carpenter.
That is some phenomenal photography, almost surreal in its clarity.
A lot of old film can be scanned to a ridiculously high digital resolution, but for some reason rarely is. I assume there was a rash of first-pass digitization in the 90s and early 2000s when peak scanning resolution barely broke 1k and the actual film itself was subsequently archived or loss.
I want to see an exhibit at a museum using VR to explore high resolution scans of historic photographs, especially stereoscopic photographs.
This is one of my favorites:
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/FSAC.1a35291_Assembling_B-25_bombers_at_North_American_Aviation%2C_Kansas_City.jpg[/t]
This one is inhumanly large so I won't thumb it but [I]wow[/I]: [url]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Sunset_silhouette_of_flying_fortress%2C_Langley_Field%2C_VA_1a35090u_original.jpg[/url]
That's all 4x5 ([URL="https://www.loc.gov/collections/static/fsa-owi-black-and-white-negatives/images/IMG_2876.JPG"]size comparison[/URL]) kodachrome. ISO speed was the same as in smaller formats, so you're right on saying 10. In good sunlight it's entirely possible to shoot without flash, even at the smaller apertures you're limited to with large-format lenses. There are Alfred T. Palmer photos, and they're very much posed and lit with (probably several) flashbulbs. Not so much a need (outdoors at least) as a stylistic choice. For example, with the guy drilling the flash is making even the (quite bright) sky look dark.
Here's the entire FSA/OWI color collection (IIRC your photos are in here somewhere).
[url]http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?sp=1&co=fsac&st=grid[/url]
EDIT: here's one with natural lighting and a higher speed:
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/AlfredPalmerM3tank1942b.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=BMCHa;52831145]That's all 4x5 ([URL="https://www.loc.gov/collections/static/fsa-owi-black-and-white-negatives/images/IMG_2876.JPG"]size comparison[/URL]) kodachrome. ISO speed was the same as in smaller formats, so you're right on saying 10. In good sunlight it's entirely possible to shoot without flash, even at the smaller apertures you're limited to with large-format lenses. There are Alfred T. Palmer photos, and they're very much posed and lit with (probably several) flashbulbs. Not so much a need (outdoors at least) as a stylistic choice. For example, with the guy drilling the flash is making even the (quite bright) sky look dark.
Here's the entire FSA/OWI color collection (IIRC your photos are in here somewhere).
[url]http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?sp=1&co=fsac&st=grid[/url]
EDIT: here's one with natural lighting and a higher speed:
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/AlfredPalmerM3tank1942b.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
That size of film is just insane.
[T]https://roadster.hu/app/uploads/2017/10/DSC07487-1.jpg[/T][T]https://roadster.hu/app/uploads/2017/10/DSC07403.jpg[/T]
[T]https://roadster.hu/app/uploads/2017/10/DSC05037.jpg[/T][T]https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/101DD/production/_96831066_p057v96f.jpg[/T]
These are from a book called Looking for Lenin, covering the statues' fate after Ukraine banned Soviet-era symbology in 2015.
[video]https://youtu.be/qXqTR46HGVo[/video]
This one's my favorite
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52835960][video]https://youtu.be/qXqTR46HGVo[/video]
This one's my favorite[/QUOTE]
*statue is held around the neck by the noose-like rope and gets decapitated
That's some fucking symbolism right there.
[QUOTE=Skerion;52837041]*statue is held around the neck by the noose-like rope and gets decapitated
That's some fucking symbolism right there.[/QUOTE]
ain't it grand
Libyan battle trucks
[t]http://jamesmollison.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/abc_Abdul-Waled-Crop1.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Abdul and Waled, near Ajdabiya, Libya[/QUOTE]
[t]http://jamesmollison.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/abc_Hammad-Safe-Crop1.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Safe and Hammid, near Ajdabiya, Libya[/QUOTE]
[t]http://jamesmollison.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/abc_Waled-Muhamed-Crop1.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Hassain and Muhammad, near Ajdabiya, Libya[/QUOTE]
More here [url]http://jamesmollison.com/photography/libya-trucks/[/url]
I love reading on how locals adapted to live in a war-torn society. It's somehow adorable how these civilian vehicles get fitted with military weaponry and are used by a crew with names, faces, backstories, families.
The Brits know how to maintain their locomotives! It's pretty cool how they're essentially operating museums on rails and able to keep centuries' old designs in operation.
[img_thumb]http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/pic2/wn/2015b/stepney3_martinl_7jun15.jpg[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Planet_replica.jpg[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Paignton_Sands_Road_-_7820_Dinmore_Manor.JPG[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/SECR_Class_P_No_323_Bluebell_Horsted_Keynes.jpg[/img_thumb]
I know that the Planet Locomotive is a recreation, but it's still cool.
They also had the good sense to preserve a fantastic amount as well. There's really only a handfull of lost classes, and the majority of the interesting oddities survive, Duke of Gloucestershire being the best example. (or the fucking stephenson valve gear powered standard 6. what the hell BR)
Meanwhile the americans went out of their way to kill everything they could. The only surviving NYC engines survived by accident. All the good PRR stuff, The J's, S's, T's, Q's, dead. Nothing of NYC or the like. And any gems that did survive, like 611, was a fortunate case. Shameful.
[QUOTE=SILBERDRACHEN;52840203]
[t]http://jamesmollison.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/abc_Waled-Muhamed-Crop1.jpg[/t]
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Man the new mad max is taking a turn isn't it
[QUOTE=SILBERDRACHEN;52840203]Libyan battle trucks
[t]http://jamesmollison.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/abc_Abdul-Waled-Crop1.jpg[/t]
[t]http://jamesmollison.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/abc_Hammad-Safe-Crop1.jpg[/t]
[t]http://jamesmollison.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/abc_Waled-Muhamed-Crop1.jpg[/t]
More here [url]http://jamesmollison.com/photography/libya-trucks/[/url]
I love reading on how locals adapted to live in a war-torn society. It's somehow adorable how these civilian vehicles get fitted with military weaponry and are used by a crew with names, faces, backstories, families.[/QUOTE]
Those are some awesome pictures.
[QUOTE=ferrus;52844636][t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Daily_Mail_Zeppelin_Fund_WWI.jpg/398px-Daily_Mail_Zeppelin_Fund_WWI.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
These are weird backer rewards...
[QUOTE]2,066 Americans were asked to point out Ukraine on a map.[/QUOTE]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/rAjmenA.jpg?1[/img]
2,066 Americans were asked to point out Ukraine on a map.
*points to America*
[QUOTE=maxspeed3006;52848290][img]https://i.imgur.com/rAjmenA.jpg?1[/img][/QUOTE]
I like how several guessed the US yet they at least knew enough to globally avoid Mexico... At least most of them were correct or close I guess.
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