I use a variety of methods to obtain specific characteristics of a shirt in order to have a better knowledge of what to look for in photos and videos. Black & White, Negative Photos, Dark Room, etc.
I came across a very cool method today to help in photomatching shirts and I wanted to share it with all of you and maybe get some thoughts or pics of other GU shirts that might have hidden characteristics.
I was on vacation this past week and while I was laying in my beach chair sipping on Johnnie Walker a new method came to me - Ultraviolet/Blacklight. CSI uses this to see blood and stains that won't show to the naked eye, why not use it to check out a shirt?
I have been working on this Orton Bears shirt for about 6 months now (w/o any success) and I unveiled a whole new light on a possible photomatch/videomatch.
The jersey was tagged 05-44 with NO VISIBLE ALTERATIONS, and a couple of team repairs. I searched every '05 game Orton played in & I could not find a match. After running the blacklight over the jersey I saw the reminance of previous numbers - #87.
Since #87 was used in 2005 by Mushid Muhhamed, I knew it could not be his. After a little research I found that prior to '05 #87 was worn by Justin Gage. (Gage had changed his number to #12 after the '04 season)
It seems as though Orton & Gage were the same size so instead of ordering up jerseys for Orton, they altered an existing jersey with his numbers/name.
Now hopefully I can find a match using pis-n-flicks of Justin Gage and see if I can't match up the team repairs!
I know recycling jerseys is a common practice among professional teams. However, in all my experience (until now) there has always been indications of alterations. This one had NONE that were visible to the naked eye.
Without this new technique, I would have never seen this. I just think this is cool, and a very neat way to get another outlook on shirt characteristics to help aide in the photomatch process.
Anyone have any input? Has anyone else ever tried this? Try it on some of your shirts and post some pics! I am eager to see what others may find that they never knew were there.
HERE'S THE PICS!!!
I came across a very cool method today to help in photomatching shirts and I wanted to share it with all of you and maybe get some thoughts or pics of other GU shirts that might have hidden characteristics.
I was on vacation this past week and while I was laying in my beach chair sipping on Johnnie Walker a new method came to me - Ultraviolet/Blacklight. CSI uses this to see blood and stains that won't show to the naked eye, why not use it to check out a shirt?
I have been working on this Orton Bears shirt for about 6 months now (w/o any success) and I unveiled a whole new light on a possible photomatch/videomatch.
The jersey was tagged 05-44 with NO VISIBLE ALTERATIONS, and a couple of team repairs. I searched every '05 game Orton played in & I could not find a match. After running the blacklight over the jersey I saw the reminance of previous numbers - #87.
Since #87 was used in 2005 by Mushid Muhhamed, I knew it could not be his. After a little research I found that prior to '05 #87 was worn by Justin Gage. (Gage had changed his number to #12 after the '04 season)
It seems as though Orton & Gage were the same size so instead of ordering up jerseys for Orton, they altered an existing jersey with his numbers/name.
Now hopefully I can find a match using pis-n-flicks of Justin Gage and see if I can't match up the team repairs!
I know recycling jerseys is a common practice among professional teams. However, in all my experience (until now) there has always been indications of alterations. This one had NONE that were visible to the naked eye.
Without this new technique, I would have never seen this. I just think this is cool, and a very neat way to get another outlook on shirt characteristics to help aide in the photomatch process.
Anyone have any input? Has anyone else ever tried this? Try it on some of your shirts and post some pics! I am eager to see what others may find that they never knew were there.
HERE'S THE PICS!!!
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