PC pics w/Flo Orange

Florescent orange items don't necessarily taint your PC hunting pics. Getting them printed in a sepia format gives them an even better PC look and it tans out the orange. I did a Mid February bird hunt that required the wearing of Flo orange. I wore a vest and voyagers cap in flo orange. They are for hunting in PA regular seasons to fulfill PA's orange requirement. I now have a dark green/flo orange reversible weskit for that.

I opted for a different way of handling that problem. I could never see the sense of making any of my colonial kit out of florescent orange, so I wear a cheap slip-on vest which meets the requirements along with a knit hat in orange. Orange never shows up in my pictures because I just slip all that off after the hunt is over and before breaking out the camera.

Spence

George said:

Orange never shows up in my pictures because I just slip all that off after the hunt is over and before breaking out the camera.
Spence

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Probably safe to handle it that way on a piece of private property with no other hunters on it. I would NEVER do that on state lands around me unless I wanted a bullet in me. :shake: I find enough beer cans in the woods on our public lands to make me want to keep my orange on! :shocked2:

I had an orange capote made for me by Northwest Traders that fills the bill for me. Could care less if my pictures show it as orange. :grin:

Just for fun, though, below is one picture in color and one I changed to B&W. Personally, I'll take the color photo even if the color isn't HC/PC.

Yup, been working on the project for a while. If it looks right in black and white or sepia tone, I'll call it good. Who made your weskit?
Here's a couple pics from my thread about an orange caped hunting shirt from One Blanket Traders,

Getting them printed in a sepia format gives them an even better PC look .....,

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Because that's the way original photos from that historic era appear? :shocked2: :haha:

NAW just funnin' ya, I understand where you're going by changing the color of the images.

I think you're on the right track, but instead, have it in black and white, THEN use software to turn it from a photo into a sketch. It will look like pen and ink shaded with water color. There are several on the market, and Fotosketcher is just one. I've seen full color battle scenes from a British Brigade Battle photo treated in such a manner and it really does look like a painting, though I don't know what particular software they used.

George wrote:
I opted for a different way of handling that problem. I could never see the sense of making any of my colonial kit out of florescent orange, so I wear a cheap slip-on vest which meets the requirements along with a knit hat in orange. Orange never shows up in my pictures because I just slip all that off after the hunt is over and before breaking out the camera.

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I use a blaze orange knitted hat and add a blaze orange shoulder cape to my hunting shirt for hunting season. It comes off when I'm done hunting. I also made a reversible waistcoat, with orange on the shoulders, that's brown when worn at an event.

LD

I've got a wool cape that works well.

Actually, iirc I think you've posted a photo of you with that in the past, because I nicked the idea of adding the orange cape for hunting, from somebody on this forum! :thumbsup:

LD

Spike Buck, what's wrong with your orange, your kit looks fine to me. Every color there is was available in period except fluorescents and metallics. The orange on your capote looks just fine. The only thing I would change to go to a shoot would be the hat. BJH

I like the color of spikebuck's capote also, I do wonder if Game wardens would consider it "Blaze Orange enough"

The only state I hunt that requires Blaze orange is Colorado, and they are pretty nutty about the Blaze Part. SO I made a blaze orange hunting shirt.





I got in trouble during a hunt with my nephew, I was not even hunting, just along for the ride. I was wearing a blaze orange jacket with black leaves painted on it to break up the outline. I wished I had patented it cause a few years later it was all over! Anyways, officer told me it did not comply with regulations. Only reason I did not get a ticket was because I was not "actually" hunting.

Your hat, if you choose to wear one, must have blaze orange visible from all directions, hence the orange cover on my hat.

Just my experience with Blaze orange regulations.

Cool capote thought, as well as the hunting frocks and capes!! I plan to make a blaze weskit for myself. Since its not a traditional color I will use fleece for cost sake.

I realize I'm invisible in this photo, but I hope the orange vest and hat will show. :wink:



According to Kentucky's requirements most of you guys would not be legal. They require safety/blaze orange, not just orange cloth, and head, chest back and chest front must be covered from all angles. Capes over only the shoulders, body covered and not head, etc., won't pass.

Spence

Wow!! It's like a blaze orange vest and hat just floating in the air, spooky. :haha:

I think most states with an orange requirement do specify false orange or 10 mile cloth, whatever you want to call it, just some are more stringent than others in applying the law. Some states even have a meter, like a light meter I guess, that they use to decide if ones orange is bright enough or too faded.

This is reversible, green on the other side.

jrmflintlock said:

I like the color of spikebuck's capote also, I do wonder if Game wardens would consider it "Blaze Orange enough"

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My capote would certainly not meet the strict interpretation of Minnesota's orange requirements. It's more of a "melon" orange than a BLAZE orange. The hat is Blaze and would pass. Someday I may meet up with a Warden that wants to argue about how orange my capote is...I have a feeling that when that day comes that I run into one, he'll be more interested in the flintlock I'm carrying than the capote! :wink: :grin: At least I hope so. :shocked2: All I can say is, if someone shoots me while I'm wearing it because they thought I was a deer...well....they'd have shot me wearing blaze orange too.

Anothern...

That Blaze Orange Weskit is exactly what Want to make for myself!!!

This is reversible, green on the other side.

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I nicked that idea from ya too! :hatsoff:

'Cept I only had enough orange for the top half of mine, and mine is linen not wool.

LD

jrmflintlock said:

That Blaze Orange Weskit is exactly what Want to make for myself!!!

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I like the Weskit as well. Looks very versatile...and those big pockets in front would be an added bonus. :thumbsup:

My oldest daughter sews and is always trying to figure out what to get me for Christmas/Birthday... :hmm: I see Jas Townsend has a very similar pattern available for the 1750's styled long-length version.

Another picture of the wool cape that when worn over the shoulders provides extra warmth plus providing the legal amount of blaze orange