petra_s. Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Hi guys,How are you all doing with Lisa's pictures. She send me 9 and I was barely able to salvage 3............I have never seen anything this bad :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc5066 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 They're pretty bad. About what I would expect from point and shoots. I've been able to do very little with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agaimages Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Yeah, not much can actually be done... unfortunatlely.. but I haven't try anything yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Any samples of what you're dealing with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agaimages Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Oh, I don't know ...there's nothing that can be done with fuzzy, terrible exposure... I feel so bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agaimages Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Ok, so here's a take on one of them. Since it's blurry and bad all I did is sharpened it and added "film" grain look to compensate for the "sharpness"... Anything else I did, just made it more terrible...<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agaimages Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 forgot to add...first one is original... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cariad Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 This was the best of my bunch, some of the others were beyond fixing !<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cariad Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Here is the fixed version ......<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agaimages Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Steffi, good! you've got the sharper ones!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 That's a very good correction...above. Could I get a few photos to work with? Anyway, the Pro photographer's excuse is totally lame: He/she simply set the sync flash speed incorrectly. I do think some of the P/S photos can be salvaged. Send me some play with: tefphoto@earthlink.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 This is a 20 second curves adjustment. More can be done. These are not totally hopeless.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john carter Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 You guys are reallllly nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john carter Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Sorry Steffi, I didn't mean guys as in men, just guys as in everybody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Wow, Todd! That "Twenty Second Adjustment" sample of yours is really amazing. Looks like something out of my old Rolleiflex MX with the single coated Tessar. Good going! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I think that there are no digital images that are totally beyond repair (as well as film images). They may not be perfect, but they can all be made better. I contacted Lisa. I want to give it a try. I would rather do this than photograph weddings, in truth! (^O^) I have restored photographs totally beyond repair. If the resolution is too low, then I just make a small print and scan it to a higher resolution. It may not be perfect, but it's better than nothing. There are many ways to deal with these issues, and I thank all here who have helped me to learn these techniques over the past year, especially Eric~. Anyway, I hope Lisa sends me a cluster of photos to work on. I want to put "before" and "after" samples on my website. Also, from the origianl post that Lisa placed, it sounds like her photographer was not being totally honest...the problem seems to be that he/she did not set the correct shutter speed to sync with the flash. Lisa should get a complete refund, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenPapai Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Levels (slid it way over to the left), some highlights, and a bit of straigtening.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I took a crack at one, using Picasa on one and the current version of Bibble Pro on the other. I straightened the Picasa version but forgot to straighten the Bibbled version. Picasa was the easiest and provided acceptable results but Bibble Pro retained more detail in the eyes. This may be due to the fact that I forgot to straighten the Bibbled version. Rotation can sometimes obscure fine detail and would probably work best with a hi rez digital file. Using the dress for white balancing still provided significant differences in overall colors using Picasa, Bibble Pro and iCorrect EditLab Pro. This has been my experience with most photo editors. Using neutral patches to white balance doesn't necessarily produce consistent results. This was probably as difficult a photo as you'll find and it appears to be salvageable.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Agnieszka, Could you post only the top color photo? When I try to copy it I get all three and I can't do anything with it. If you can post the top photo I think I can improve it. We're trying to help Lisa. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Whoops ... had to redo the Bibbled version. Forgot I'd set the JPEG to 100% quality. This one is closer to 85% quality, which should keep the uploaded JPEG under 200 kb, which is still too large - my apologies. Looks pretty much the same on my monitor as the other Bibbled version.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agaimages Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 here it is...<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Thank you. I think we are now seeing that these photos are NOT beyond salvation. Even those that are out of focus can be transformed to a "soft focus" effect, or, whatever. We can be crative. We CAN help Lisa! Nothing is beyond repair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiva Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Didn't hear back from Lisa but here's my work on this one just for grins. I'm still willing Lisa.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Another Sample in soft focus. There is not end to possibilities.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiva Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Took a couple of tweaks on the other one. Hope you get them all looking better Lisa.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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