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Posted on 15/04/11 05:50:58 AM |
PDelavigne
Mannequin Mestre Posts: 124 Reply |
Restoration work in progress
Hi folks, I'm working with a restoration, and have it almost finished, but I'm not yet completely satisfied with the results specially in the details of the face ( the hard part to restore) take a look at the before and after. Althought the original has received an excessive enlargement (60x90cm), and donīt have a good definition, I feel there is something wrong, but I canīt spot the problem. Can you help me ? Steve, what about the shadows ? The beard, and the hair, I made, following your teaching ! Here is the entire photo http://www.pdelavignefotografias.com/page9446.html (bellow the page) ![]() ![]() |
Posted on 15/04/11 08:06:18 AM |
Dooley
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Re: Restoration work in progress
Great work, I've been having a go at restoration lately. All I can see that's a bit off are his shirt buttons. Shadows may be a bit much on his right cheek. _________________ I've fallen and I can't get up. |
Posted on 15/04/11 09:06:24 AM |
Steve Caplin
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Re: Restoration work in progress
Great job, Paulo - the restoration work is excellent, and really detailed. A tricky one, particularly because the light is behind the figure. I agree with Dooley, the shirt buttons are a bit off. But the real problem is the colouring: this has that oversaturated, red look of so many old pictures of the period. I've used Curves to take out some of the red, then boosted the contrast by duplicating the image, desaturating it, and changing the mode to Hard Light - and then taking the opacity of the new layer down to, in this case, about 40%: ![]() |
Posted on 15/04/11 7:35:45 PM |
PDelavigne
Mannequin Mestre Posts: 124 Reply |
Re: Restoration work in progress
Thanks Rob and Steve! Yes, I see about the buttons! Specially at the upper part ! About your tips, Steve, you'd made a great observation ! The overall color cast is due to many reasons: first, the period of the photo,as you said, second, the time of the day (about sunset), and third, he is red haired. Anyway I agree with you, and I appreciated so much your valuable tips, and example!Thanks for the time you took to work on it! I'll try to follow your instructions! Later I'll upload the results! I had for sure that you could spot the problem ! ![]() |
Posted on 15/04/11 8:17:05 PM |
Sophie
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Re: Restoration work in progress
Thanks Steve. I'll try this. Have done quite a bit of restoration lately from scanned family albums. |
Posted on 17/04/11 8:13:53 PM |
PDelavigne
Mannequin Mestre Posts: 124 Reply |
Re: Restoration work in progress
Hi Steve, After a new touch, following your valuable tips, here's it again ! I reached there, or not yet ? I'm curious to see how it looks like in the final print, so, what you're seeing, is actually a soft proof simulating a Frontier printing profile... letīs see ! ![]() |
Posted on 18/04/11 00:51:55 AM |
Mark Goodwin
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Re: Restoration work in progress
Excellent wok Paulo! ![]() _________________ Mark Goodwin If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you've always got! |
Posted on 18/04/11 04:00:11 AM |
PDelavigne
Mannequin Mestre Posts: 124 Reply |
Re: Restoration work in progress
Thanks Mark ! I hope that'll be the client's oppinion ! |