Photography to represent how a camouflaged ship appeared
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Michael Potter
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Photography to represent how a camouflaged ship appeared
Ahoy, forum: Have we information about how to photograph a camouflaged model to show how the ship appeared at sea at various distances and times of day? One relevant setting would represent the view from a surfaced submarine approaching torpedo range.
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Timmy C
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Re: Photography to represent how a camouflaged ship appeared
I don't think anything's been published for hobbyists, but I assume we can learn something from the actual model/testing apparatuses they employed during the Wars just for this purpose.
Here's an interesting blog that's been compiling camouflage-related research documents, including contemporary news articles: http://camoupedia.blogspot.ca/2012_07_01_archive.html
Haven't looked through ever page to see if it includes photos of those test tanks/tables, but I do recall seeing pictures of them somewhere on the internet (helpful, I know...maybe Google's digitized LIFE magazines?).
Here's an interesting blog that's been compiling camouflage-related research documents, including contemporary news articles: http://camoupedia.blogspot.ca/2012_07_01_archive.html
Haven't looked through ever page to see if it includes photos of those test tanks/tables, but I do recall seeing pictures of them somewhere on the internet (helpful, I know...maybe Google's digitized LIFE magazines?).
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Tracy White
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Re: Photography to represent how a camouflaged ship appeared
That would be quite an undertaking, because appearance will vary based on many conditions. Even if you restrict things to a periscope view (essentially 0' altitude) you still have sun position and humidity at least, that can affect appearance.
*Edit* I was curious about Timmy's link because I had been to this Camoupedia but wasn't aware of a separate one... turns out they're the same, just his link has a .ca domain (since he's canadian, eh?). So if there was anyone else who was wondering if that was a different site, the answer is no.
*Edit* I was curious about Timmy's link because I had been to this Camoupedia but wasn't aware of a separate one... turns out they're the same, just his link has a .ca domain (since he's canadian, eh?). So if there was anyone else who was wondering if that was a different site, the answer is no.
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Sutho
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Re: Photography to represent how a camouflaged ship appeared
We discussed something similar on the HMS Prince of Wales thread just a little down from this one that went on to 10 pages. Our discussion related to how to convert it to B&W and why the shades are not the same as WWII B&W photos. We were told colour spectrum was the answer and even with colour photos the photos back in WWII did not show the true colours of the ship.