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Post by camtech on Jun 14, 2018 19:52:05 GMT 12
Going through some photos the other day, and found these examples of the work of some RNZAF photograpers. I thought they were too good to stay in the box, so decided to share with you all:  ELR Hercules by Les Billcliff, on Flickr Just think of the range, load and speed of this version.  LR Andover by Les Billcliff, on Flickr This would help fill the shorter range roles.  Dart Harvard by Les Billcliff, on Flickr Just think what the locals would think of the noise levels! There are some other variations created by photographers with too much time on his hands. |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 14, 2018 20:47:44 GMT 12
Do those date back to before the days of digital photography and Photoshop?
Or are they more recent creations?
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Post by shorty on Jun 14, 2018 21:36:36 GMT 12
They have been around for many a year, there also is one of a Devon with (I think) Darts and another of a 9 ship Vulcan formation overhead the Ohakea tower
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Post by camtech on Jun 14, 2018 22:26:16 GMT 12
They certainly date way back to real photography, when our photographers had to use mechanical cameras, process their own film and produce real prints.
Yes, Shorty, I have seen those other two, but don't have prints at hand.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 14, 2018 22:32:41 GMT 12
In other words, those images are real clever stuff.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 14, 2018 22:48:18 GMT 12
There is one of a Friendship with four engines and a T-tail which looks really good. And another has the front of a Harvard and the back of a Devon. These were all done in the early 1980's.
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Post by mumbles on Jun 14, 2018 22:48:30 GMT 12
Do those date back to before the days of digital photography and Photoshop? Or are they more recent creations? Definitely vintage. There is a four-engined NATTS Friendship in a mid-80's issue of Wings as well. |
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Post by planecrazy on Jun 15, 2018 8:52:15 GMT 12
Nice pic's was the stretched Herc image created before Lockeed actually stretched
their Herc? The Turbine Harvard, now that needs a required taste!?
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Post by camtech on Jun 15, 2018 9:21:42 GMT 12
Thanks for reminding me about the Friendship and the Harvard/Devon - I'll have to see if I can find them and add to this small collection.
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Post by madmax on Jun 15, 2018 10:38:24 GMT 12
Ross Macpherson published several of these images in WINGS magazine during the 1970s
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 15, 2018 11:20:25 GMT 12
1980's, not 1970's
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Post by madmax on Jun 15, 2018 12:34:28 GMT 12
Apologies Dave. I'm a long way from my archives at present and was relying on memory which is obviously not so good. Cheers mmax
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Post by tbf25o4 on Jun 15, 2018 13:39:50 GMT 12
They were all done before the magic of photoshop and electronic wizardry. They were stock PR photos that were manipulated by the photographers (cut and paste from prints) then re-photographed
to produce the above results.
Very clever chaps!
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 15, 2018 14:02:30 GMT 12
Actually, when I first opened this thread and before I took a real good look at the first photograph, I thought for about a second that I was looking at a Douglas C-133 Cargomaster.
Then I noticed the six engines and realised it was a spoof photo.
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Post by FlyingKiwi on Jun 15, 2018 20:26:11 GMT 12
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Post by noooby on Jun 19, 2018 7:44:54 GMT 12
Wasn't it Mike Provost that did the Friendship photo???
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Post by camtech on Jun 19, 2018 11:51:39 GMT 12
Wasn't it Mike Provost that did the Friendship photo??? Quite probably. |
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