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01/02/2008 10:39:21 PM · #453

My dad ended up spending a decent chunk of time this summer scanning old family photos (they're up to 80 years old, and all funky and old-fashioned, the way they all were at the time)... And I started slowly restoring some of them, I find it very relaxing - all that nice gentle cloning :)

Anyway, I'm quite pleased with the first results, just thought it'd be nice to share it with you guys :)

Before & after:

meyers

Canon EOS-6D

01/02/2008 10:54:51 PM · #454

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

I'm seriously starting to wonder about some of you in the sanity level department. Either that or you're all a bunch of sickos that slow down for car wrecks and you just have some twisted curiosity about which direction I'll wander off into next. Or you're all just REALLY bored!

Well, it's hard to drive fast, hold the camera with a heavy telephoto lens (for the gory close-ups), and still use good photographic technique!

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

01/02/2008 10:57:06 PM · #455

Originally posted by meyers:

Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I'm seriously starting to wonder about some of you in the sanity level department. Either that or you're all a bunch of sickos that slow down for car wrecks and you just have some twisted curiosity about which direction I'll wander off into next. Or you're all just REALLY bored!

Well, it's hard to drive fast, hold the camera with a heavy telephoto lens (for the gory close-ups), and still use good photographic technique!

lol Weirdo. Get a horse.

JerseyGenie

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

01/02/2008 11:29:45 PM · #456

Originally posted by jaysonmc:

Anyone make profile/bio updates for 2008?

Thanks for the gentle nudge. I would have totally forgotten to do so without your question. Done!

jaysonmc

Nikon D200

Nikon MF 105mm f/2.5 AIS

01/02/2008 11:33:10 PM · #457

Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:

Wow, how long did that take you? My Wife's father has a bunch of picture they would like me to digitize. For some reason they think since I take picture I am a photoshop whiz. The sad news is I don't even own the program. Is this something easy to do, or is it pretty advanced? Capture NX isn't the best for repairing photos.

meyers

Canon EOS-6D

01/03/2008 12:03:27 AM · #458

Stupid scores are up in the results thread. Congrats to

Bear_Music for the top score!

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

01/03/2008 12:37:46 AM · #459

Awesome work, Jelena! And Jayson, either splurge and treat yourself to Photoshop or find it somewhere floating around... not that I encourage that kind of behavior. (I actually did buy a copy after using a trial for, umm, awhile.)

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

01/03/2008 12:40:40 AM · #460

Originally posted by jaysonmc:

Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:
My dad ended up spending a decent chunk of time this summer scanning old family photos (they're up to 80 years old, and all funky and old-fashioned, the way they all were at the time)... And I started slowly restoring some of them, I find it very relaxing - all that nice gentle cloning :)

Anyway, I'm quite pleased with the first results, just thought it'd be nice to share it with you guys :)

Before & after:

Wow, how long did that take you? My Wife's father has a bunch of picture they would like me to digitize. For some reason they think since I take picture I am a photoshop whiz. The sad news is I don't even own the program. Is this something easy to do, or is it pretty advanced? Capture NX isn't the best for repairing photos.

That IS nice work. If it were mine, I might have left in the visa stamps, or whatever theya re, for authenticity's sake, but you did a heck of a job.

R.

raish

Olympus C-2500L

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

01/03/2008 01:31:01 AM · #461

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

but if you don't mind if I seem to lose my mind every now and then.......well, it's great to be loved.

There's a mind in there? Damn. What's it like having one of those? Does it come with an instruction manual? How often do you need to upgrade?

Good to see you,Jeb. Happy new year.

Wildcard

Canon EOS-20D

Tamron AF 55-200mm F4-5.6 LD Di-II for Canon

01/03/2008 03:07:03 AM · #462

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

I'm seriously starting to wonder about some of you in the sanity level department.

What is this sanity you speak of?

basssman7

Nikon D500

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

01/03/2008 03:20:36 AM · #463

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

you're all a bunch of sickos that slow down for car wrecks and you just have some twisted curiosity about which direction I'll wander off into next. Or you're all just REALLY bored!

Well, Britney has been keeping her knickers on lately so I need something else to watch.

01/03/2008 05:23:46 AM · #464

Sanity is highly overrated. Let me share...

Yesterday, I found... (are you ready?) ... a feather! Yes, an actual feather. From a bird. So I took this feather into my studio. Here's my studio:

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You may recognize my studio - I shot my recent texture entry here and a couple of other odd shots, both here, and just to the left and around the corner:

If you go to the left and around the corner, then to the right, you'd get to the maintenance yard where I shoot a lot of shots of shovels and pick-axes. You've seen those.

Anyway, back to the feather!! Yes, a real feather! I shot it, edited it, added layers, blended, cropped, and did all sorts of stuff. I doubt it would win any challenges, though. It seems just a bit downtrodden, as far as feathers go.

Now where were we on this sanity thing again?

01/03/2008 07:45:45 AM · #465

Originally posted by jaysonmc:

It took roughly an hour to restore the original pic, then another 20 mins or so of just normal photo editing.
And I wouldn't say the restoration bit is too skilled, it just takes patience more than anything. And what you tend to use the most is cloning, and also the healing or spot healing brush a bit (though you could do it all with just a cloning tool). And for the bits that are completely faded or covered with stuff, you use a very low opacity very soft brush to paint on what you think might've been there...

And I second Melethia's comment about Photoshop :) CS3 rocks. Every photographer should have a copy of Photoshop and a copy of Lightroom, they're just too much fun and too good to miss out on :)
(ok, and Neat Image. And Photomatix for the HDR inclined. And maybe Stitcher or what's it called for panoramas. Did I miss anything?)

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

01/03/2008 07:49:59 AM · #466

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by jaysonmc:

Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:
My dad ended up spending a decent chunk of time this summer scanning old family photos (they're up to 80 years old, and all funky and old-fashioned, the way they all were at the time)... And I started slowly restoring some of them, I find it very relaxing - all that nice gentle cloning :)

Anyway, I'm quite pleased with the first results, just thought it'd be nice to share it with you guys :)

Before & after:

Wow, how long did that take you? My Wife's father has a bunch of picture they would like me to digitize. For some reason they think since I take picture I am a photoshop whiz. The sad news is I don't even own the program. Is this something easy to do, or is it pretty advanced? Capture NX isn't the best for repairing photos.

That IS nice work. If it were mine, I might have left in the visa stamps, or whatever theya re, for authenticity's sake, but you did a heck of a job.

R.

Thanks :)
Actually, that's a good idea... I didn't really think about the stamps, I just had this sort of simple "must erase bad random stuff" mission. Bit like a computer game, where the space invaders are replaced by random lines and splodges :)

snaffles

Nikon D7100

01/03/2008 11:23:23 AM · #467

Great work on the restorations Jelena! Now all you need are some margarita-pouring lemurs and vintage fire-spinner shots to fix up and you're set for life! :-)

Oh yeah just clinging on to 5.0219 with COntrast...

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

01/03/2008 11:29:02 AM · #468

Originally posted by quiet_observation:

Edward Hopper did a series of paintings along the lines of "A Woman in a Hotel Room". I've decided this year that I will have a new profile photograph every time I stay in a hotel.

You might like Andrew Hetherington's new book then, 'A Room With a View'

Message edited by author 2008-01-03 13:26:51.

xianart

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

01/03/2008 12:18:55 PM · #469

Originally posted by jaysonmc:

Anyone make profile/bio updates for 2008?

nope. i have no ambition whatsoever...

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

01/03/2008 12:27:45 PM · #470

Originally posted by jaysonmc:

Anyone make profile/bio updates for 2008?

I'm open to suggestions!

posthumous

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

01/03/2008 12:56:41 PM · #471

Originally posted by Melethia:

Originally posted by jaysonmc:
Anyone make profile/bio updates for 2008?

I'm open to suggestions!

I love the photo essay on your profile page right now. It's stunning.

snaffles

Nikon D7100

01/03/2008 02:47:26 PM · #472

Gaahhh...somehow I must've ended up in Ice cause this score has been frozen for the last 24 hours...

Object Isolation by Contrast

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!!!!!

jaysonmc

Nikon D200

Nikon MF 105mm f/2.5 AIS

01/03/2008 03:00:14 PM · #473

Originally posted by Melethia:

Originally posted by jaysonmc:
Anyone make profile/bio updates for 2008?

I'm open to suggestions!

I'd say coming home safely would be at the top of the list. :)

On a side note, anyone doing a Time Lapse shot of Clowns wearing Spectacles?

Message edited by author 2008-01-03 15:01:42.

01/04/2008 12:12:05 AM · #474

Yeah, I could go for that getting home in one piece deal. Our morning mortar guy has really outdone himself today. I think he's making up for missing a morning or two. Normally it's two, sometimes four. Today I got to fourteen and quit counting. (There's another one. Hopefully it's tea time soon.) It really annoys me when I'm in the shower, too. Worse is the porta-pottie though. Speaking of porta-potties, the two best pieces of graffiti I've seen so far are "Help! I'm a lesbian in a man's body!" and "I fear the blue splash."

As for scores, the Isolation by Contrast is doing very well, given I wasn't sure what the challenge was looking for; the Free Study not so much, but I do have very helpful comments as to why (no interest, don't see the point, good technicals.) Basically it's one of those shots that only I like, which is cool.

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