The Forgotten Mask

Sooty_1 (Critique Team)

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25 Sep 2012 - 11:20 PM

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It's not necessarily a child's mask, it's a standard civilian issue mask, probably issued at the beginning of the war, in 1939. The 'balloon' is in fact the outward valve, allowing breathing out, but closing when breathing in, making air pass through the cannister. Earlier models had a separate cannister on a hose.
Some of the childrens' ones had a single eyepiece, and the babies' version included a shroud and had a bellows which needed to be pumped by an adult.

As far as the picture goes, it would be nicer to see all of the gas mask and not the thin strip at the bottom. As a study, it's fine...texture and lighting is ok. Maybe a little more contrast.

Nick

banehawi (Critique Team)

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26 Sep 2012 - 4:40 PM

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In addition to the above, Ive uploaded a mod with more contrast, sharpening, an crop to fill the frame with the mask, combining both sets of advice as much as possible.



regards


Willie

Sooty_1 (Critique Team)

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26 Sep 2012 - 11:52 PM

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Rather than use scene settings, I suggest you use aperture or shutter priority, or even manual...you will learn much more quickly.

If you look at what goes wrong when you adjust various settings, you will quickly learn how to fine tune exposure, focussing and so on. It might be painful for a very short time, but it's the fastest way.

Nick

paulbroad

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27 Sep 2012 - 12:06 PM

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Basically well seen and high ISO is often OK for mono. Would like to see the whole mask and you need more contrast, the grey tones are a bit compressed. An old room of the mono darkroom worker was to have a pure white, a fullblack and a range of grey between. In other words, set a black and white point.

Paul