Alfred G Buckham aerial photos
 

Something nice on the forum today, these great pics from the old days.....

Photos Link......

Enjoy! :)

Thanks for that BRL. I thought it was just me and the gorrilla on today-scary.
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Aaahh, those were the days!

They're beautiful photos - works of art, really. Fabulous cloudscapes. The beauty of it is, no Photoshop in those days!

They're beautiful indeed.
No electronic version of Photoshop, indeed. But they had actual photoshops, with darkrooms, where a good photo technician could do a lot of magic anyway, particularly in black and white. And I've got a feel that that's exactly what happened here.

Not to diminish the beauty of them, but if you look at image four, there's a building in the lower left hand corner who's windows are all consistently far brighter than the brickwork. In daytime. How did that happen?

Also, picture five. Why would the whole main building light up but not the church in the lower right hand corner, or the houses just across the street. Do you really think he waited for the sun to break through a gap in the clouds exactly the size and shape of the walls surrounding that building? And then positioned the aircraft at the right spot as well?

Still, beautiful stuff.

As an ex pro photographer if it aint in the negative you can't print it! The exposures forn these negs would have to be spot on combined with the processing of each individual shot. At the time he would probably been using a large format camera one frame at a time. These images are amazing the composition and quality of an Ansel Adams print but from an aircraft.

Thanks for posting this BRL. This book is already on my presents list.

Thanks for posting BRL. Book now on order.

After 50 years up shooting down myself, from Austers via Ansons, Twin Pins, Lodestars, Turbo Comms and signing off on Citation IIs I'm suitably impressed. Wish I'd been that good......