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A restored photograph

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Posted by Robert: Thu May 2nd, 2013 09:06

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This was taken with a Kodak Box Brownie camera about 1943. Taken at my father's wartime billet, a farm North East of Manchester.

It is a photograph taken with the D200 and Nikkor Micro 55mm f2.8 lens of a contact print.

The original is quite badly scratched and took a while to clean up. It was also suffering badly with white spots all over, which were removed with a combination of the clone tool, spot healing tool and a luminosity brush.

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Posted by Robert: Thu May 2nd, 2013 09:07

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The re-worked image:

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Posted by jk: Thu May 2nd, 2013 10:31

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Nice work Robert.

Now you have a digital copy which is easier to keep but can also very quickly destroyed by inadvertent actions.
Ah, the wonders of the digital world.

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Posted by TomOC: Thu May 2nd, 2013 13:33

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Good work, Robert.

You have lucky to have such a nice pic of Dad!!!

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Posted by Judith: Thu May 2nd, 2013 15:54

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That's nice. Like the dog! There have been lots of dalmatians in my family. :-)

I have slowly been working my way through a stack of old family snaps and they can mostly be greatly improved, though some are more challenging than others! Here's one I did ages ago. I did it as an experiment to see how much detail could be recovered - not much!! The original photo was just a little 2" square thing and pretty much in tatters. This is my great aunt and uncle with their dog, Khan, taken in the 1930s.

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Posted by jk: Thu May 2nd, 2013 17:13

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That is a very good repair Judith. Dont knock it.
It is probably as good as the original. Remember that the lenses were not very good in the old days!!!

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Posted by Robert: Thu May 2nd, 2013 17:43

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Considering how bad it was and how small, I think that is a really good result.

I have an oil painting of my grandfather which is pretty bad, I attempted to 'clean' it years ago and mad a real mess of it, I have had a couple of attempts to photograph and restore it. Neither attempt produced anything I was happy with.

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