Vintage Photography Contest: Entries & VOTING (ended)

WINNERS NOW POSTED in original Photo Contest Thread: HERE.

Finally--- Here are the Entries for the 2019 Anniversary Contest: Vintage Photography!

We hope everyone had a good time thinking up all these great concepts, setting up their dolls and props, and taking the photos.

There is a great variety of subjects and styles and methods represented here. Everyone should enjoy looking at them and appreciating the work and creativity that went into creating these entries.

Voting is open to all members, including contestants.

Voters should examine entries and vote for their three (3) favorites based on the following criteria:

1. Which entry shows the best execution using a traditional (pre-digital) photographic method?
   
2. Which entry has the best vintage concept and aesthetic?
3. Which entry is your favorite?

Each entry can only receive one vote from each voter, so please choose a different entry for each criterion. If you vote for the same entry multiple times, all of your votes for that entry will be thrown out. Contestants are allowed to vote for themselves.

Voting period: August 24th until EXTENDED to Saturday August 31st 11:59pm EDT (or maybe NOT--experiencing a glitch/Error, so there might be no extension).

Voting is now CLOSED!!!

Entry # is post number (there is no entry #1, you can find the post number at the bottom right side of the post)
If you have problems voting, please post in Ask the Moderators!

After you finish voting, take some time and check out the "Just for fun" Photo Contest Entries here!

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:

Fairyland / MNF Halloween 2018 event head

Briefly describe your entry's concept:

I recently came across some newspapers from the 1950s, and I adored the yellowed pages and the coffee stains on the papers. So, for my entry, I decided to mimic the look of the photographs on the newspaper during that era. I wanted to my entry to look like the photos were torn out of an old newspaper.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:

Photos were taken digitally, and modified using photo editing app to change the temperature of the images.
Then, I printed the images on recycled paper I made myself.
Afterwards, I used tea and coffee to stain and "age" the paper further.
I used scrap booking scissors to make the edges of the paper look worn and torn.

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Merry Doll Round Nanaimo


Briefly describe your entry's concept:
I decided to go with a sepia-toned turn of the century photo in which the subject moved slightly or the camera moved before taking the photo.


Complete list of methods used to create your entry:

I took the photo digitally on my cell phone. Then,
I used Adobe Photoshop 2015 with the following tools:

Image- adjustments- desaturate
Copy layer, lowered opacity, shifted copied layer
Sharpened selected parts of original image
Layer - new- added a low opacity wash of sepia.



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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt: Lumedoll Baughn



Briefly describe your entry's concept: An alien time-traveler, traipsing through the 19th century taking selfies.



Complete list of methods used to create your entry: Digital photos manipulated with Photoshop to look liked Wet-collodion, Pin-hole, and Hand-tinted photos.



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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt: Migidoll Siho on a Dream of Doll male SD body.



Briefly describe your entry's concept: I chose the 90's for my entry, using a tie-dye shirt and his camera. Bright colors were also popular then.



Complete list of methods used to create your entry: I used my iPhone 6 for the first photos, printed them out at Walgreen's and took pictures once more of them with my phone.



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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:

5Stardoll Elaine

Briefly describe your entry's concept:
My doll is based on the character from Black Butler, Elizabeth Midford. She is from 1890s, Victorian Era, and is wearing a lovely child dress from the era and has a vintage doll of her own.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
DSLR camera on tripod, lighting from the room and hand held lamp for lighting.
Photoshopped the image using only camera raw to make the vintage effect.
The vintage mat for the photo was from a real vintage photo.
Background and floor- poster boards with scrapbooking papers glued on it.

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:

2D Doll Kiwi

Briefly describe your entry's concept:
Authenticated as having been taken somewhere between the 1880s and early 1900s, these well loved photographs are hypothesised to have been commissioned by a travelling noblewoman of her lover. The faded colours of the portrait indicate hand colouring, an expensive and time consuming process that has resulted in many theories as to who exactly the noblewoman was.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:

Entirely digital, from photography to editing.

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Ingenieuse by Twigling/Artifex Kindred x Magic Mirror collaboration


Briefly describe your entry's concept:
When I looked through the possible photo ideas for this vintage theme, I remembered the glamorously dressed and decorated ladies I saw in "The Great Gatsby" (2013) and wanted to use 1920's western fashion as the main element in my photograph. Even though the film is made with modern technology and it's colored, I tried to mimic the real 1920's photographs and aged my photo to look more authentic. Her accessories are all self-made by me and her outfit is an old dress I modified to fit the look of "20's diva".


Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
Backdrop canvas with a room picture on the background, doll sized chair, table, props, soda in her glass. Photo taken with Canon EOS 750D camera, 50mm lens. Photo retouch and aging effects in Photoshop and Gimp.


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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Luts Summer 10 Event Head on Loongsoul B-B62-02 body


Briefly describe your entry's concept:
It's the 1990s! The internet is new to the average person, and there's no better way to show off how cool you are than posing for a moody, grunge themed picture with a disposable camera, waiting a few weeks to get it developed, scanning it to your computer and uploading it to your Yahoo profile, where everybody in chat will insist that's not really you. Whatever. You don't care anyway, you're not a conformist. :-)


Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
-Photo taken with Nikon CoolPix B500
-"Aged" with editing effects using BeFunky and Pixlr X free online editing websites
-More editing and Instant printing by Wal-Mart Photo Center
-Physically aging photo by bending, folding and sanding edges and corners
-Photo of photo with same camera to upload


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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:

Volks 1999 F-15 (Discontinued) OS WS head on an OS WS SD13 girl body

Briefly describe your entry's concept:

Vintage style portrait at a historic location.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:

Minolta Maxxum 7000
Minolta AF 28-85 3.5-4.5
Tri-X 400 shot at +1 developed at 400
Scanned on a Noritsu scanner
Unedited other than a resize by flickr down to 800 px edge to meet contest format

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:

Fairyland pukipuki pong pong


Briefly describe your entry's concept:

My entry was inspired by a traditional picture taken at the time in my country, which was basically a "butt shot" of the childrens playing with chair usually as prop.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:

These pictures were taken with a instax mini 8 and scanned to the computer.

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Volks Dollfie Dream DDII body with DDH-01 head. Custom Face-up by CardMDesigns on Instagram.

Briefly describe your entry's concept:
I wanted to take the photos a loved one might have on their wall after someone's death. In that vain, I took an intimate portrait, a burlesque photo (how they met), and a bereavement photo from her funeral. I wanted it to feel like the type of photos one might pass down from generation to generation.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
Photos were taken using an iPhone 6s. All editing was done on the iPhone with the Line Camera app. Resizing was done on MacOS' Preview.

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Volks Show, Magical Angel Kelly


Briefly describe your entry's concept:
It's a Kodak moment! Two friends goofing off captured forever on Kodak film!


Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
All of the "ageing effects" were achieved solely with a genuine vintage camera and genuine vintage film (a vintage Kodak disposable camera, to be exact). The original shot somehow came out blue; I filtered out the blue and lightened and clarified the image. Those were the only digital effects used, besides cropping and resizing. The first image is the altered one, the second image is how it originally turned out (still cropped and resized, of course).

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:

Volks SDM-F-42

Briefly describe your entry's concept:

For this contest, I chose to use multiple exposure photography. I thought that the soft, ghostly quality of the photographs would suit this years theme of delicate things. It is also a form of photography that is unique to film, because while it can be made digitally, the nuances of the multiple exposures are difficult to fully capture without using film.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:

These photos were shot on a Fujifilm Instax Mini Neo 90 Classic. Instax Mini film was first developed in 1998, but this camera in particular wasn't released until 2013. Multiple exposure techniques have been around since nearly the beginning of photography. With this camera, the process is very simple. There is a special mode that allows you to take multiple exposures on the same piece of film, by not ejecting the film until two shots have been taken. The brightness and composition of each exposure is difficult to control on an instax, so capturing a good superimposition can be tricky. Not pictured are the half dozen failed attempts at getting a few good shots.

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:

Pipos Rosie

Briefly describe your entry's concept:

My doll's character lives in old time fantasy world, and her appearance is inspired by that, so I used a prop and editing to amp it up more.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:

I shot in a low light and increased my camera's ISO to add noise
I cropped the photos so they have dimensions I've noticed many vintage photos have
I used more warm and soft lightning to add a yellow tint
I edited the light even more yellow and added grain and lowered the contrast in Photoshop express
I added a frame

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Fairyland Chicline Lishe


Briefly describe your entry's concept:
I chose to try and recreate the effect of a salt print or calotype (invented in 1841 by Talbot) because when I was a child I used to visit antique stores with my mother and one of my favorite things was the boxes of old photographs that I could find there, which I would sort through as long as anyone would let me. Photos taken in this method were prone to fading and had a softer focus than other methods like Daguerreotypes, but I love the dreamy, almost ghostly quality of such images. They always made me feel like I was holding something that might disappear at any moment.


Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
I do not have a Victorian camera (that would be amazing, if I would not also be scared to touch it) so...
Cell phone camera: LG X Charge
Editing in PhotoScape X: desaturation, color adjustment, light and shadow adjustment, clarity adjustment, multiple filters, additional distressing in program by hand (speckling, edges)

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt: Lillycat Chibbi Lana



Briefly describe your entry's concept: My photos are based off the Holga, a plastic medium format 120 film camera manufactured in Hong Kong during the 1980s. Due to the inexpensive plastic body this camera usually had a number of flaws including light leaks, blurry areas, and focusing issues. Its simple design made double exposures very easy however, and it quickly became beloved for its interesting effects and affordable price.


Complete list of methods used to create your entry: I used my digital camera, a Nikon D7100 with a 40mm Nikkor macro lens that I use as a prime lens. Since my Holga camera that I would have used had I done actual film doesn't have a flash I opted to take hand held photos in natural light only. All of the effects were made in photoshop.



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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Soom Puss in Boots Jr


Briefly describe your entry's concept:
In the early years of photography was compared to today a very special event. The familys which were able to afford this novelty gathered in their best clothes to get their pictures taken. Often they sat down because every movement resulted in blurred pictures.. This I wanted to create with my little fancy catboy


Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
Photo was taken with my Lumix GX8 + my 25mm 1.7 and edited with Affinity Photo
(changed the photo to monochrome, added a faded look via level adjustments, added a light vignette, added a black filled layer and changed mode on multiply negative, added 2 scratch textured layer, added a paper texture and set it to multiply



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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Iplehouse KID Milly (Amanda)
Iplehouse KID Ah-ra (Jennifer)
Iplehouse BID Coco (Missy)

Briefly describe your entry's concept:
I wanted to emulate the Polaroid family photos of the mid to late 20th century, along with the nostalgia of some of the popular toys and books of the 1980's. These two little friends in 1987 are having a sleepover in their blanket fort, when Amanda's little sister shows up to cause mischief. I tried to take the photos from the perspective of a parent crouched down to see inside the fort.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
My method was a bit of a combo of digital and analog. I took the photos with my cell phone, then transferred them to an Instax SP3 "printer", which exposes digital photos onto instant camera film (the same film used by Instax square format film cameras). The results are a bit unpredictable compared to a normal photo printer, because the image is being developed onto film rather than printed onto photo paper. I dusted off my cursive to write the captions, then photographed the pictures to upload them here.

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt: Dollshe/ Diana



Briefly describe your entry's concept: My doll outfit reminded me of the school photographies so I choose the portraits for my pictures. She's just a Japanese schoolgirl form 1940's.



Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
I used digital ageing with a mobile app, Photo Studio PRO.


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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt: Ringdoll K



Briefly describe your entry's concept: Sepia-toned old-timers portrait.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry: I used a Canon Digital Rebel XT to take the photo. Digital yes, but not so new that it has the built-in WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity that the latest cameras have. It has a CF card that I have to take out then put in a card reader so that I can get the photos to my computer. I chose to use this camera as it has more settings to fiddle with, and isn't as easy as just snapping a pic with the phone. That and my film SLR camera is broken.

I also do not own a printer, so I resorted to digitally aging it. I'm not sure I could have found a way to get it sepia-toned without digital enhancement anyway. I used Clip Studio Paint to do the aging.

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Souldoll Kanguk/myou doll boy body hybrid, doll chateau merlin


Briefly describe your entry's concept:
My photos are based on old, 1860s portraits and spirit photography. It was usually used in ghost hunting or used in an attempt to capture deceased loved ones on camera.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
I used my Canon EOS Rebel T7i, tripod, adobe lightroom, and photoshop. They were digitally aged by using a few different paper stock photos!

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Kids-Sky "Bobo"


Briefly describe your entry's concept:
I remember when my sister-in-law was gifted a Polaroid camera right before my nephew was born in 1995 and she took pictures of EVERYTHING, especially the kids' birthday parties! A lot of her pictures were kind of hit-or-miss, but she caught some really sweet moments of everyone growing up. I used an Instastax camera to take pictures of my doll's birthday party to replicate the feel of these photos, complete with the little commentary notes at the bottom like my sister-in-law used to do.


Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
I just used an Instastax camera, then put them in a photo album and took a picture of them, since I don't have access to a scanner.


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The prize, please ^_^
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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Souldoll Hye on an Ariadoll body


Briefly describe your entry's concept:
I went for a vintage feel, contemplative and emotive. I used a 1930's lace collar insert to drape around my model as clothes and a pearl necklace to give a contrast it. I kept all the colors light and neutral to have the medium of the film be able to play it's part in the structure of the end result.


Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
I used my fathers 1957 Asahi Pentax, the first widely commercially available 35mm SLR camera. With it I used a special harmonica lens additive, a 50mm lens and a big diafragma to create the soft blurred atmosphere. I used Natural daylight. The photo's have a sort of dark to light gradient because the shutter has been worn out and thus doens't respond as it should and it's casting a dark shadow on parts of the film. The film was then developed and printed at our local shop and printed as a 10x15 high gloss print. I scanned them with my phone's camscanner.


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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt: Miro Doll Yaya on the New 1/4 Girl Body (not the newest body that was recently banned; this body was released a few years ago and is still permitted on DoA).



Briefly describe your entry's concept: I wanted to digitally replicate a photo developed from a disposable camera in the 1990's. My photo features a light leak, a date stamp and a bit of grain, all of which might be seen in a photo from the 1990's.



Complete list of methods used to create your entry: I digitally aged my photo using Photoshop CS2.



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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt: Soom Bronze Topaz



Briefly describe your entry's concept: I was hoping to try for the cool portrait.



Complete list of methods used to create your entry: shot on Pentax MX film camera with Pentax A 50mm f1.4 lens and fujifilm Superia X-tra 400 film
Used my digital camera as light meter to get initial settings



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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt: 5th Motif Venitu + Switch Hwahui/Spirit Doll hybrid



Briefly describe your entry's concept:
Here are two souls laid bare on a surface of silver-plated copper, with tarnished edges and a touch of mercury. I kept thinking to myself, "Ah, people in old photos always look so haunted," but the more things change, the more they stay the same. With this daguerreotype of admiral and young girl, let's go back to the start.


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Canon EOS 6D Mark II camera with EF 50mm f/1.8 STM lens
Adobe Photoshop
Tutorial from Work & Play

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt: Popovy Doll , Little Owl, Magpie



Briefly describe your entry's concept:
These are two sisters in two black dresses.A photo to commemorate those moments.


Complete list of methods used to create your entry:

I used a digital camera, PhotoScape, brightened, use sepia, discoloration, "old photos"

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt: Iplehouse Tania

Briefly describe your entry's concept:
In Cottingley, between 1917 and 1928, two girls aged 9 and 16 took five photos that they said were of fairies by the stream at the bottom of their garden. Many influential people, including Arthur Conan Doyle, were convinced the pictures were genuine and it was only in the 1980s that the girls admitted that the fairies were cardboard cutouts and the whole thing was a hoax. I love the fact that many experts examined the pictures and negatives to rule out alteration, double exposure or other camera tricks but didn't detect the very manual process the girls actually used, so I took my photos using the same technique and no editing after the photo was taken.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
The original Cottingley "fairies" were hand drawn by Elsie, copying illustrations from a book, but for a photography contest, I wanted to use photographs. I also liked the idea of using the same doll multiple times in my final pictures, so the main doll in the photo and all five fairies are all Iplehouse Tania in a selection of different outfits and wigs.I didn't make wings or try to duplicate the clothing, but in the original photos, Francis and Elsie are dressed in demure Edwardian clothes, while the fairies are more scantily dressed with more modern hairstyles, so I did style my fairies and my main model accordingly. I also chose colours to try to ensure there would be reasonable contrast in monochrome pictures when put against medium and dark greens outside.

The Cottingley photographs look fake to us now with our knowledge of what camera trickery can do, but were not obviously faked to the original audience – I could have tried to make my fairies look more realistic, but to be true to the originals I took the fairy photos using my camera’s basic monochrome setting, then printed in greyscale onto slightly textured paper to mimic that the originals were drawings. I also used cream paper to avoid stark whites making the fairies look overexposed in the foreground (which did happen in the originals).

Francis and Elsie used hat pins to set up their fairies – I didn't have hat pins, so after cutting the fairies out, I taped some of my longest sewing pins to the back of them and then attached them to leaves. Tania was then added using a doll stand hidden by her hair or body. I didn't want to duplicate the exact poses of the original photos and I added more fairies to my pictures than Elsie drew for hers. However I did take inspiration from the three most consistent of the original photos, Frances with the Fairies, Frances and the Leaping Fairy and Fairy offering a Harebell to Elsie.

Because I did not want to edit the photos digitally, I took a wide variety of shots using a mixture of monochrome and sepia camera settings. In the end the ones that best made both the fairies and the main model stand out against the garden but not unnaturally so were taken with a dynamic monochrome setting (so the darkest and lightest colours were more intense than in the standard monochrome setting).

My camera is digital, but all set up and settings were done in camera and I used no digital editing techniques except to resize the photos to 800 pixels square.

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Tania and the fairies


Tania and the leaping fairy


Fairy offering a flower to Tania


Are you the creator of this photo?(yes/no) Yes

Was this photo taken specifically for DoA's 15th Anniversary? (yes/no) Yes

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt: Volks old F-05 on custom body



Briefly describe your entry's concept: I wanted to try and evoke vintage boudoir photos but with a fantasy twist!



Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
I used pinhole photography to create the photos with black and white photographic paper. I made a few pinhole cameras from tins, boxes, and crates I had around the house. The photos were processed using darkroom chemicals, and I inverted the images using the computer (pictures come out of the pinhole camera as a paper negative). Each picture I captured had a shutter time of around 10 minutes, with 5 minutes chemical processing time after all just to view the NEGATIVE which then had to be scanned in and inverted


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Are you competing for the prize, or are you competing just for fun? (prize/fun) PRIZE ^^

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt: Neo Angelregion iMda Timp Dubu



Briefly describe your entry's concept: My photos portray a Victorian era child playing with her toys. They emulate the antique photography technique of subtly tinting monochrome photos to give a more life like appearance.


Complete list of methods used to create your entry: The pictures were taken with a smart phone. After uploading to the computer, the pictures were cropped and resized with MS Paint. They were then digitally aged using an online photo editor called PhotoMania.


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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:

Leekeworld Mint

Briefly describe your entry's concept:

I wanted to capture the eerieness of Camera Obscura. Using a negative image to capture my Witch in all her glory. I love how the negative image makes her look completely different. Even though she is wearing dark clothing and a white wig, the monotones are flipped

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:

Using the oldest photography technique - the Camera Obscura aka Pinhole camera. I built my own Pinhole Camera and developed the photo with Caffenol - A developing solution made with common household items - coffee, Vitimin C power, water and washing soda.

Because my scanner has died I had to take a photo of my image with my phone

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Yes
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Yes
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Prize
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Yes

 

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Volks Dollfie Dream:
2 x DDH-07
1 x DDS Karin
(and various dolls in background, all either Dollfie Dream or Obitsu)

Briefly describe your entry's concept:
A group of friends at Woodstock '69.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
Original photos taken with Polaroid 600, then digital images taken with iPad camera

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Yes

Was this photo taken specifically for DoA's 15th Anniversary?
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Prize

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Yes

 

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt: Dollzone Feilian



Briefly describe your entry's concept:
Vintage photographs are notable not just for the traditional film techniques and the effects they achieved, but also the popularity of subject matters in bygone eras that differ from what we're accustomed to seeing in modern day. The concept for this entry was the "Memento Mori", or post-mortem photography popular in Victorian times. As photography was still of limited accessibility to the masses, a post-mortem photograph was often the only picture people would have of their loved ones, particularly those who died at a young age.


Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
This was an attempt to reproduce one of the earliest methods of photography with the resources I had on hand. I constructed a simple camera obscura-type device out of two cardboard boxes and a magnifying lens, but instead of projecting the image onto photographic paper, glass, tin, etc. to be developed, the image was projected onto wax paper. I used the camera on my LG phone for two pictures and a Pentax K-50 for the other to take a picture of the image projected onto the wax paper. I used Adobe Photoshop to flip the images, crop, and resize. No other editing or effects were used.


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Was this photo taken specifically for DoA's 15th Anniversary? (yes/no) Yes

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Volks SD Nana


Briefly describe your entry's concept:
Portrait of a Lady in White.

Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
Photo was taken with a Canon PhotoShot, then digitally aged in GIMP. Techniques: Desaturate, sepia overlay, manually adjusting contrast with black and white painting, adding noise and textures, and darkening and fading the edges.


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Prize

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Your doll(s) company/ sculpt:
Fantasia Barbara



Briefly describe your entry's concept:
My intention was to create a photo a big fan of the rope dancer took of her in front of her caravan. He followed her after the show and these three photos are his biggest treasure after the circus leaves town and keeps them in his pockets for years.


Complete list of methods used to create your entry:
- The photos were taken with a Fujifilm instax Mini camera (instant camera like Polaroid) with close up lens and colorful frames film
- Scanned with a Canon Scanner (scanned and cropped in PhotoFiltre)
- Resized with PhotoScape
- The photos weren't enhanced digitally in any way to keep the vintage charm of the film

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Are you the creator of this photo? yes

Was this photo taken specifically for DoA's 15th Anniversary? yes

Are you competing for the prize, or are you competing just for fun? For a prize.

Have you read the 2019 anniversary and prize eligibility rules and do you agree to follow them? yes

 

THANK YOU to all our wonderful contestants!!!

From pinhole cameras to polaroids, digital and non-digital, this was a challenge to please technical photographers, fans of photographic methods, and those who love various period aesthetics. The results are all impressive!

Reminder--

Voting is open to all members, including contestants.

Voters should examine entries and vote for their three (3) favorites based on the following criteria:

1. Which entry shows the best execution using a traditional (pre-digital) photographic method?
   
2. Which entry has the best vintage concept and aesthetic?
3. Which entry is your favorite?

Each entry can only receive one vote from each voter, so please choose a different entry for each criterion. If you vote for the same entry multiple times, all of your votes for that entry will be thrown out. Contestants are allowed to vote for themselves.

Voting period: August 24th until EXTENDED! to Saturday August 31 11:59pm EDT (or maybe NOT extended. Currently going to an Error...).

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Vintage Photography Contest Voting

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