yeye retouched
First attempt at a retouch. Experimenting with burning unwanted surface texture reflections and desaturation.
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Uploaded on Jan 3, 2010
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yeye
A new project to start off the year: retouching about three dozen of my grandfather's photo prints. These are from the 1920s, when my grandfather was a young surveyor (I'm not sure if that's the exact title, but something like that) for the Kuomintang.
Most of the prints are around 1-5/8" x 2-1/8" in size, and based on this and other internal (sharpness, depth of field, trapezoidal shape of some frames) and external (35mm was in its infancy in the 1920s, and enlargement perhaps not so common—meaning these are probably contact prints) clues, I suspect most were made with view cameras using medium format film, or at least cameras with tilt/swing movements on film masked to 645 size. But I'm unfamiliar with this stuff, so I'd be interested in hearing everyone's thoughts on how these prints were made, and how they might best be restored.
This print is a bit larger than the others (1-7/8" x 2-5/8"), and is one of a couple portraits that may be from a proper large format camera.
This is the just-scanned version. I'm retouching this and others in the set over the next few weeks. This is probably the best-preserved (and certainly the best in terms of photographic technique) of all the prints.
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that boom boom pow
I gleefully admit that is my favorite song of 2009. I'm listening to it now on my new sub.
Could there be a more fitting way to end this decade than with Fergie hosting the Vegas New Years Eve countdown?
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Uploaded on Dec 30, 2009
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unpacking instructions
A Christmas present to myself. Or maybe my downstairs neighbors.
I am a bit daunted that there are important instructions on how to take the speaker out of the box—good thing I didn't get the large model.
That little box with the rabbit ears is my current subwoofer. That thing almost blocked by the Outlaw box is a 52" TV.
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christmas orange
For a variety of reasons, I associate oranges (or clementines, in this case) with Christmas.
First, because they are one of the few fresh fruits available in the Northern Hemisphere in December.
Second, because I spend Christmases in Southern California, where I grew up surrounded by orange orchards. Sunkist was founded in nearby Claremont in 1893, and the San Fernando Valley (where Sunkist is now headquartered) was long dotted with orange orchards, replaced one-by-one with housing tracts (our neighborhood was one of these).
Also because my family is Chinese, and as far as I can tell oranges are the traditional Chinese-American dessert (there are sweeter, more-European-like desserts but we never ate those except at dim sum and wedding banquets). Florida may trace its orange-industry roots back to Ponce de Leon, but the Chinese have been producing these (well, mandarin oranges—the modern orange is a later hybrid) since before the Empire was formed. After all, they don't call them "mandarin" (or "Apfelsine", or "Citrus sinensis") for nothing.
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