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Mike Needham
Senior Member
Registered: April 2002
Posts: 489
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Duplicated the original. I decided to leave the original colour in tact and not alter it during the retouch. Started using the heal and patch tools throughout the image and inparticuliar the background. The lighting in the photo was difficult to determine, there were various shades so I tried to find a middle ground somewhere and even the tones. The shadows near the bottom of the photo where tough, In the end I chose to darken them, I left what I think is a shaft of light in, I noticed that many of you had erased it and I wasnt sure what to do, so I left it in.
The fleece chaps where a little trickier, the right hand side edge definition was a lot better than the left, so I made a selection of the right and then copied, flipped and dropped into place on the left hand edge. I also should say that I feathered the selection by 2.
His waistcoat was a challenge because of the stripes and the silvering. I used the patch tool to sample an area of striped jacket and replaced some of the obscured jacket where the worst of the silvering was. I wanted to retain some of the stripe detail so I also carefully cloned between the stripes to add more definition to them.
The background I cleaned using the heal tool mainly and the patch tool to drag and drop foliage into new places. I evened the tones using the clone tool on a low opacity and a large feathered brush.
At the end I duplicated the layer and ran a high pass filter setting of 60 on it. Then I changed the layer blend mode to soft light and reduced the opacity to 75%.
I decided that to try and keep some authenticity I wouldnt overwork the photo, I feel I succeeded in part.
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Dennis Povey
Junior Member
Registered: February 2002
Location: nr Knutsford Cheshire England
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It was hard to know how far to go with this one. I think you kept within the boundaries to give a true and good restoration to satisfy the challenge
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Tom Willis
Junior Member
Registered: June 2002
Location: Wakefield, Quebec, Canada
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This is a great restoration - I don't at all think you have "over-worked" it. I don't really think that the shaft of light was really there, but your decision to see it that way makes the photo more interesting. The "studio" has been set up in an old barn with loose boards, late afternoon, flies are buzzing... Well, anyway - he ain't no cowboy but that sunlight is real.
...Tom
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Flora
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Registered: March 2002
Location: Milan, Italy
Posts: 2,323
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DJ Dubovsky
Senior Member
Registered: August 2001
Location: Upper Penninsula of Michigan
Posts: 1,659
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Looks great Mike. It does look like a ray of sunlight steaking across the lower part of his leg. So I would say your decision was a good one.
DJ
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Mike Needham
Senior Member
Registered: April 2002
Posts: 489
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Thanks for the comments - I can see that the "streak of light" is probably not that at all, as on looking closely I presume the angle of light would change slightly as it crosses the ground onto his chaps. Perhaps I will remedy this at a later date.
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... but you did a really great restoration!