I just completed work on this photo art print featuring items from JR Chapell's impressive collection of Bear Archery artifacts, including one of Fred's personal hunting hats, the Borsalino fedora that many of you have seen Papa Bear wearing. For example he's sporting this hat on the cover of Dick Lattimer's book and on the cover of one of Bear's catalogs. The first signed print will be donated to PBS for their upcoming event in Cincinnati; subsequent prints will become part of the annual Trad Gang St. Jude fundraiser. More details will follow.
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Very nice.
Great Picture!
There was a thread asking why Bear bows are so collectible. That pic (and the history behind the items) answers it for me.
Nice work, Gary.
As Usual Gary, I love your work.
I like how you placed the Compass orientation to match the lines on the plaid, it helps move the eye away from the focal point, then the other "lines" in the photo bring you back.
Well done :thumbsup:
If one is part of the Compton Rendevous auction in June I will be bidding on it. Very nicely done!
Great photo!
That's great.
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Great picture, love how you have it set up.
Great picture!
nice :thumbsup:
Fantastic photo :clapper:
Nice job Gary. I could look at your photo's all day long. They're awesome !
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Fantastic photo :clapper:
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Gary, You really get the sense of Mr. Bear in that print....just an outstanding man and outstanding print.
As usual Gary, first class.
About the tenth time I've looked at this pic...... I love it. Says volumes about Fred Bear :)
Great pic!
Thanks everyone. I truly appreciates your comments.
Good eye Charlie. My background and formal training is in fine art: my BFA is in painting. Like a paint brush the camera is just another tool, and when I use it I'm always looking at things as a painter might. Notice the repetition of circles in the photo? The compass, shirt button, and curvature of Fred's hat; these also help move the eye. Angles were also considered, the position of the bow, arrows, plaid pattern, etc..
Gary, as a want to be Photographer I love the composition. As a distance relative of Fred Bear, I love the picture for the family history. My great GrandPa and Fred's mother were brother and sister. What equipment did you use for the shoot?
I keep my basic camera setup relatively simple. I use mid-price range Canon DSLRs, EF wide angle zoom lenses for versatility, and a solid lighter weight Manfrotto tripod. I prefer using available light although I keep a field reflector/defuser on standby. As far as camera bodies I would rather carry two lighter mid-priced camera bodies with a pro lens than an expensive body that could fail me in the field. Some will disagree, however I've seen electronics fail even in well protected housings. I can own multiple bodies for the price of one top of the line. If most of my work was done in a studio under controlled conditions I might feel differently. You meet a lot of people carrying very expensive equipment who lean too heavily on it to produce good images. I'll take a creative mind over the best equipment any day.
That picture is just about everything I love about this sport.
Very nice.
AJ
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The bow is a 1954 walnut Kodiak with compass enlayed handle. That's one of the early Bear knife sets.
Back quiver is an early Grayling too so the objects are basically mid-1950s I think.
QuoteOriginally posted by Gary Logsdon:
I keep my basic camera setup relatively simple. I use mid-price range Canon DSLRs, EF wide angle zoom lenses for versatility, and a solid lighter weight Manfrotto tripod. I prefer using available light although I keep a field reflector/defuser on standby. As far as camera bodies I would rather carry two lighter mid-priced camera bodies with a pro lens than an expensive body that could fail me in the field. Some will disagree, however I've seen electronics fail even in well protected housings. I can own multiple bodies for the price of one top of the line. If most of my work was done in a studio under controlled conditions I might feel differently. You meet a lot of people carrying very expensive equipment who lean too heavily on it to produce good images. I'll take a creative mind over the best equipment any day.
Gary, I couldn't agree more. My canon camera bodies are two generations old. They are still great cameras but without some of the bell from the latest models. I was taught to spen my money on good glass and then the best body I could afford. Bodies will come and go but good glass should last a life time, or until I break it. ;)
If you have that printed local, be sure and press check your print job, make sure that they print that photo well. LF
I personally oversee the printing. They're using archival quality inks and acid free cotton paper.
Great work Gary, I've always admired your work and would like to own a copy of this print when they become available. I have four of Pat Marino's prints being framed right now. Jim
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I wish you could see the quality of this print. The color and surface are so rich. It's as if you can reach into the image and pick up the objects. We're not using traditional offset printing. The archival inks lay on the surface and are built up, for lack of a better description. Those inks and 100% cotton acid free paper virtually eliminate fading. It will last generations. That being said, I've sized the image to print on a standard 11x14" size paper so that custom framing isn't necessary. The price will be quite reasonable as well. I am donating the first prints to PBS and also to Comptons for fundraising. There will be an announcement later on Tradgang when prints can be ordered. I will donate a percentage of the proceeds to the Tradgang St. Jude fundraiser.
That IS awesome...
Great photo. Thanks
Those Borsalino hats are very pricy, btw. I had a beauty someone left in my Dad's showroom and never came back to get it. Dated back to the 40's. When he closed the shop he let me have it. Wore the hell out of it for years and it was a great hat. Actually messed it up camping and hunting. After all that, someone stole it from me. Always wanted it back to be like Fred Bear. (Hatwise that is -- never as an archer).
Nice memories here and thanks again
sam
For many years I searched for the exact model Borsalino that Fred wore most of the time. After a lot of dead ends I finally located a hatter in Brooklyn NY that imports the hat in the color most often worn by Fred, taupe. I now own two of those and they're great hats. I've thoroughly examined Fred's original hats and the new ones are identical in every respect.
A true love of bowhunting comes thru in that layout.
There is a style and rare type of class represented there.
I like to think of myself having THAT kind of class and style.
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A classy campfire and a wave to you Gary.
I'm delivering the framed print to the PBS event in Cincinnati today. I've donated #003/250, signed, to PBS.