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11/18/2006 01:30:25 PM · #1 |
This is Josep Peter Mayer. In this photo he is a constable (police officer) for a small village in what is now a Checklosovakian town.
When the German army swept thru the villages, they 'drafted' all the able bodied men and boys of age to fight for them against their will. They rounded up their women and children and placed them into camps to ensure the men's loyalty. Josep left a wife and 2 young boys behind.
They were taken to a camp and given very small rations of food a day. It was not enough to keep them all 3 alive. The mother was forced to choose which of the 2 boys would live and watch the other one slowly starve to death in her arms. She chose the healthier of the two. My father in law to survive. Sometime after the death of her son they escaped to America where they made a new life together. Josep was sent to the Russian front where he was captured, torchured, and starved to death not knowing what happened to his family.
This was the only surviving photo of Josep and was kept close to his wife side until her death a few years ago. My father in law entrusted this photo to me and asked if I could repair it for him. I would like to be able to get a 8x10 framed print for him for christmas. I am not that good at repairwork yet. I seriously need your help. How would you go about it? PM me if you would like the tiff scan of this photo to work on. I want you to tell me the steps you took so I can learn to do this right.
much much much appreciated for any assistance here!
TLeM
I am not that happy with the result of the scan. I am thinking of photographing the photo with my camera and seeing if that would come out better. Is this a good idea?
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11/18/2006 01:36:40 PM · #2 |
I've done worse than that for //www.oprworkshop.org/
I can do it, but not today. PM me if no one else offers.
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SOrry to be short and non-explanatory.
Mostly it would just be a LOT of cloning and healing brush. run some noise removal and some dodge&burn to darken the parts that are faded. Looks to be no major reconstruction of horse or rider, so it's only a few minutes for quick job I think. hard to tell with such a small image shown here.
Message edited by author 2006-11-18 13:40:02.
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11/18/2006 01:44:19 PM · #3 |
Yeah I did a couple of tough ones for OPR. I'll be happy to do it. My email's in my profile.
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11/18/2006 06:32:38 PM · #4 |
Thank you guys!
Wavelength, thank you for the advice on the steps you would take. That is exactly what I was looking for. I will play with it and see how it goes. I'm encouraged to hear this wont be to difficult.
Ignite, I will send you a larger image soon.
The OPR sounds like a fantastic service to provide those in a disaster! Its fantastic that you are involved with helping people get their lives back in a sense of order.
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11/18/2006 06:36:36 PM · #5 |
I can do it also, I did work for OPR and I also helped out some other DPC'ers here a while ago with repairing old photos. Send me a pm for my email ya wana send me the tiff file
check this out here is one I repaired that I have on my site, I was supposed to post more but have not got around to it just yet
//www.lamontphotography.com/gallery/1243560
Message edited by author 2006-11-18 18:39:09.
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