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Very, very impressive FP!
Thank you. Thank you all who have had kind words.
Very, very impressive FP!
Location since there were primary colors for each area and I keep references on hand. Earth tones for Indonesia for sure. You start and after a while you get a feel for some things. Yeah, artistic licence goes hand in hand with everything else.I'm quite impressed with this colourising, but one query how do you determine what colour and the shade, or do you use artistic licence, anyway they are very nice.
Not blocked. I have seen these many times. Thanks for sharing with everyone.I recently came across these colorizations, most are extremely impressive: https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/
(reddit is blocked in Indo, need a VPN)
I searched there for Indonesia and a few related search terms, unfortunately no results.
Some of these would look nice with just one item colorized. Like just the roosters comb, or the main subject.
Dang. That last photo is nice. Perfect coloring. I like the potatoes, they look real (wonder if you dodged some of them it would create a bit more realistic shine effect), but yeah definitely lots of intricate work into it!
I also think the last one is excellent. It reminds me of some paintings I have seen in galleries here. I love market scenes. Really nice.
You mentioned taking photos of drawings before, and poor quality scans. We have a bog standard scanner that I'm sure couldn't produce results anywhere near what you are getting. With that in mind, I was thinking that if the wife wanted to do this, she'd probably have to take a photo of the photo, and work from there. To get to the point, do you think an SLR would get a better result than a good scanner? Where would you even go to get something scanned, a photo printing place?Thanks Hap, before I even start any of these I have to work with sizes. I sometimes have to take what would normally be a 4X6 sized photo and blow it up to at least a 16X20 incase I ever want to print it. Of course, after blowing it up, then comes the fun part of cleaning up any distortion and in some cases redrawing the lines for drawings and sharpening photos. I in most cases end up with a high res photo so if I ever find a printer here that could do what I want, I have the files ready. Anything I post here is a low res copy.
Photo studios have been taking pictures of photos for years. That is what they needed to do when there was no negative. It works fine but the important thing will be the lighting. Often times glare is produced and you do not want a bright, burnt out section. Use a well lit area with no direct sunlight. Do not use a flash. Make sure you are squared up to the photo. Make sure you focus tightly. Tripods at one time had a screw on the bottom. This was to mount your camera there so you could copy with it.You mentioned taking photos of drawings before, and poor quality scans. We have a bog standard scanner that I'm sure couldn't produce results anywhere near what you are getting. With that in mind, I was thinking that if the wife wanted to do this, she'd probably have to take a photo of the photo, and work from there. To get to the point, do you think an SLR would get a better result than a good scanner? Where would you even go to get something scanned, a photo printing place?