Jazz Hands (click to enlarge)
Okay, maybe these are not jazz hands, but they sure were semi-creepy. There was a whole table of these things at the Brimfield Antique Show.
The table o’hands was located in a tent, and getting more of them in the frame was challenging. The more hands you included, the more of the bright background outside the tent you included. This made the exposure challenging, not to mention having obnoxious bright spots in your image.
I went ahead centered the image on the two blue hands and included as many background hands as I could.
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Bobbin Spools, Brimfield Antique Show (click to enlarge)
If you are planning a trip to western Massachusetts, be sure to check the calendar for the Brimfield Antique Show. Besides being an antique paradise, this town is a photographers delight. My wife and I spent two hours there before the rain drove us off. During that time we only covered a few blocks of the antique show. There is so much to see, and so many photographic opportunities, that I feel a need to go back and spend at least a full day plus some there.
Here are some bobbin spools that were sitting in a box. Being old and essentially monochrome, these bobbins just screamed to be converted to black and white. The conversion was done quickly in Silver Efex Pro, part of the Google Nik Collection.
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Musket Hammers (click to enlarge)
Here is the last detail image of the Musket Organ at Springfield Armory National Historic Site. I have dozens more of these detail images, but this will be the last I post here.
Click on the image and see blemishes and different grain patterns on the stocks and metal parts (and dust accumulation on the sights). Notice the 1862 engraved to the left of the each hammer. I did not notice those when I was taking the images. I wonder if they indicate the year the musket was made?
It is amazing how many neat images one can get from the Musket Organ by zooming in more and more and changing angles. I think zooming in on the musket stocks themselves would yield some nice textures for use in photoshop. Closeups of the hammer and trigger would make a neat “industrial” type image.
Soooo many possibilities; one could spend most of a day here.
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