Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Retouching and blowing WAY WAY up.

I got a phone call the other day from an elderly lady who came by my home. She had seen some images that I took and printed in metallic for my brother and sister-in-law, one 20x24" and one 20x20", as a Christmas present.

As the conversation goes on I find out she has seven images she wants blown up like the ones she just saw. When I got the images I found out that they were tiny: most were 2x3" and the biggest of them was a 3x5". Not exactly a lot of info to start working with there. Pretty much really made me laugh at first. I took a deep breath and began thinking through how I could do this.

Turns out it was pretty simple really. . . okay, it took me all day . . . and a couple late nights. But it was a fun project. The two images I'm showing you here date back to 1948. When I blew them up so they could be printed at 24x30" it revealed a ton of scratches and holes. It took a lot to make the images look like they probably did roughly 52 years ago . . . but the results were something amazing. :)

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For reference . . . I took this picture of the originals next to my laptop keyboard.

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She actually ended up ordering them 24x30" in Metallic.

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This one she also ordered 24x30" in Metallic.


Signing off for today. God bless your socks off,

Capture. Create. Discover.
Something Amazing!

Britton Felber
www.photographybybritton.com | Britton@photographybybritton.com | twitter.com/brittonfelber

4 comments:

  1. Way cool! Nice retouch work...definitely Something Amazing. :)

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  2. I'm lovin' it! That's really awesome. :D If I were born in the 1800s and only had little 2x3s left I'd have you do them, that's for sure!

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  3. I would like to see the before and after shots- the original scans. It would be interesting to see how much work was done on them. Truly amazing results you got there.

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