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Vikki Senior Member Registered: August 2001 Location: Arizona Posts: 883 users gallery	As much as I love the old look of vintage photographs, I also like to see them come to life with color.
	· Date: Fri January 2, 2004 · Views: 5931 · Filesize: 70.4kb · Dimensions: 600 x 450 ·
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M_Hnatiuk
Junior Member

Registered: March 2003
Location: Toronto
Posts: 8

Sat January 3, 2004 10:00am

Vikki, this is wonderful! I too like the look of vintage photos but appreciate how color can really bring them to life. You've managed to retain that vintage look and reveal to us what the photographer may have seen.

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Murray
Junior Member

Registered: January 2003
Location: Scotland
Posts: 2

Sun January 4, 2004 6:20pm

ahhh..that's beautiful

ajcutler

Member

Registered: August 2003
Location: Potomac, Maryland
Posts: 77

Mon January 5, 2004 4:10pm

Vikki:

You certainly brought this one to life. A wonderful natural colorization.

Always look forward to your restorations and retouchings.

Alan

Ian W

Junior Member

Registered: November 2003
Location: Leeds, UK
Posts: 16

Sat January 10, 2004 10:28pm

Vicki:
Some excellent work in your gallery, but this one is my favourite. I'm particularly impressed with your work on the subjects hair. What is your technique for colouring those individual "flyaway" strands?

Ian.

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http://www.photoboxgallery.com/WhitkirkPhotography

Vikki
Senior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Arizona
Posts: 883

Sat January 10, 2004 10:38pm

Thanks everyone, for the nice feedback!
Ian, regarding the hair. I don't really have a technique for the hair. I think it helps if the background color is similar, so that it's easier to blend and not so apparent when it doesn't.

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Vikki
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Ian W

Junior Member

Registered: November 2003
Location: Leeds, UK
Posts: 16

Sun January 11, 2004 12:11am

Vikki,

Yes I can see how that would help. I think your choice of colours here has helped the image to look more natural overall. I think my instinct would have been to go for a blue/grey background, which would have caused me problems with the hair.
Something for me to be aware of in future.

Ian

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Kraellin

Moderator

Registered: April 2005
Location: somewhere over there
Posts: 8,736

Sun August 17, 2008 1:07am

vikki, if you're not teaching classes in this, you shld be. just excellent!

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Craig

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