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Re: [OM] IMG: Photo Restoration from the 1900s

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Photo Restoration from the 1900s
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 00:07:04 -0600
Thanks, Moose.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 2/9/2017 12:03 AM, Moose wrote:
On 2/8/2017 9:50 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
As I continue to explore the tools available in Lightroom and Photoshop, I decided to rescue this Kodak print image that was in my Mother's family album, from the 1930s. This covered bridge was about 1/2 mile from the farm where we lived at the time, and I passed through it on a school bus twice a day. I'm the young fellow in front, left.

http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/James+Creek+Covered+Bridge.jpg.html

What a great family memory!

'Twere mine, I'd tone down the contrast a little and raise the shadowed parts of faces. <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Nichols/Covered_Bridge.htm>

Binging up the shadows shows the interior and light coming through the structure, but brings up junk to close out.


On 2/8/2017 1:24 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
Though this appears to be a "studio" photo, restoration was more difficult because someone had written names on the photo. This shows my dad, standing tallest, with his parents and siblings. His mother, on the right, died on his 8th birthday, in 1905.

http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Nichols+Family+Portrait_+Circa+1904.jpg.html

Looks like a good job.

In case you are interested, the third edition of Ctein's "Digital Restoration, From Start to Finish" is out, including some new tricks/techniques he discovered since the last edition. <https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Restoration-Start-Finish-Photographs/dp/1138940259/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1486616886&sr=1-1&keywords=digital+restoration+from+start+to+finish>

Best trick? Get your mom to put the negs behind the prints in the family album. ;-)

Restored Moose


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