See Honey, DPC is a GOOD thing...

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

11/25/2007 09:38:53 PM · #1

If your family and significant others are like those in my life, the passion for the update button and the challenges is a bit over the top and out of the realm of their understanding. Once in a while, however, you get an opportunity to display that all those countless hours of shooting and post processing come in handy once in a while.

Here's my story...

My Mom gave us some old pictures to 'fix up' that came from her side of the family. There are the only ones in the whole family and they were abused over the years before my Mom acquired them. When we opened up the folder of photos, my wife really thought we were going to be in trouble. However, after a couple of nights scanning in some high resolution images and then doing a bit of processing, I may very well be considered a family hero. chuckle, chuckle...

All those hours spent staring at the screen are coming to a useful end...and I may get some more free time to play in the next few weeks!

Here is some of what my fellow DPCers have allowed me to do, through tutorials, tips, friendly advise, etc. It's not the best 'recreation' in the world, but considering where we started, I think it came out okay.

Original photo of Great grandma

Preliminary edit to put the pieces back together

Let's here your DPC success stories...or..."See Honey, this is why I spend all this time, money and effort..."

Nikon D200

11/25/2007 09:42:14 PM · #2

Way to go, bassbone!

How special that you were able to restore your family memories. :)

Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Canon

11/25/2007 10:06:57 PM · #3

Thanks - it's pretty cool to actually use some of the stuff I learned here to help out...

Anyone else have an success stories?

Originally posted by L2:

Way to go, bassbone!

How special that you were able to restore your family memories. :)

dsterner

Canon EOS-40D

11/25/2007 10:12:29 PM · #4

Greatb job Peter! Good to see you dipped into genealogy! I'll post a few in a bit

idnic

Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

11/25/2007 10:19:41 PM · #5

Aweee, great job, Peter! Impressed me! :D

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

11/25/2007 10:24:04 PM · #6

Thanks - That means a lot to me, coming from you. :-)

Originally posted by idnic:

Aweee, great job, Peter! Impressed me! :D

idnic

Canon EOS-60D

11/25/2007 10:26:11 PM · #7

Originally posted by bassbone:

Thanks - That means a lot to me, coming from you. :-)

Originally posted by idnic:
Aweee, great job, Peter! Impressed me! :D

I've done a few restorations, and dude, they aren't easy! Trust me, you rocked that one! :)

aliqui

Nikon D300s

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

11/25/2007 10:26:34 PM · #8

Fantastic job on that ear.

sherpet

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

11/25/2007 10:33:14 PM · #9

You are definately a hero in my book as well as you have done a wonderful jib/..... Well done mate.....

11/25/2007 10:33:48 PM · #10

Thanks - It took about 30 minutes to get the ear to work at all and about another 15 minutes to fix the eye. This is the first photo I attempted, being the worst to fix. The others are coming along a lot better. I think the best part is that all will be duo-tone/ b/w so I don't have to worry about color matching...

Originally posted by aliqui:

Fantastic job on that ear.

twilson944

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

11/25/2007 10:34:32 PM · #11

I've got some too. I'll try to post them later. This looks good. It tends to be very tedious work at times, but well worth it.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

11/25/2007 10:37:23 PM · #12

Cool - can't wait to see.

Originally posted by twilson944:

I've got some too. I'll try to post them later. This looks good. It tends to be very tedious work at times, but well worth it.

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

11/26/2007 12:14:00 AM · #13

Excellent work, Peter!! I don't have any restorations to share, but I did get an email asking to provide some pictures and a short summary of a week with "Flat Stanley" (a paper cutout) to share with a 2nd grade class somewhere. I'm about to see if I can photoshop Stanley into some of the pictures I took in Qatar.

gwe21

Nikon D300

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4.0-5.6G ED

11/26/2007 12:18:18 AM · #14

looks fantastic!

Dantzr

Pentax K-x

11/26/2007 01:30:10 AM · #15

I bow within your presence!

Spectacular job!!!

Message edited by author 2007-11-26 01:30:34.

jbsmithana

Nikon D300

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 12-24mm f/4.0G IF-ED

11/26/2007 01:48:31 AM · #16

I've done a few but never that radical. I'm not even sure where I would start with one that torn up. Great job!

As for "See Honey, DPC is a GOOD thing ..." I get the Christmas card job from my wife every year either using one of my shots or taking a photo of one of her paintings. I also get to be the go to guy for her friends camera and photo questions. Seems to keep me in good graces when I spend all that time in my office at home.

twilson944

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

11/26/2007 09:20:52 AM · #17

Here are a couple of the worst ones. Most of the bunch just needed to be darkened, with a couple of light creases, but these were the most time consuming. I'm still in process with the second one.

before

after

before

during