Civil War Colonels

[frontierchris]

Zuzah, do you still have that colorized picture of Colonel Edmund L. Dana?

 

[Zuzah]

Indeed I do, though not my proudest work

Here you go!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q1wiu2e9n8dhnqw/Edmund L. Dana.jpg?dl=0

 

[civilwarincolor]

Indeed I do, though not my proudest work

Here you go!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q1wiu2e9n8dhnqw/Edmund L. Dana.jpg?dl=0

Ugh! Did you do that one with crayons? By the looks of it one of your very early works. So glad you got better.

 

[Zuzah]

Ugh! Did you do that one with crayons? By the looks of it one of your very early works. So glad you got better.

By my own estimations, around 5 years old - it's not aged gracefully.

 

[civilwarincolor]

By my own estimations, around 5 years old - it's not aged gracefully.

So Zuzah in his teens, when he only needed 3-4 colors and could pop out a new colorization every 15-20 minutes.

I hate showing my early stuff. Yesterday I had a customer request an image that I had done 3-4 years ago and before I showed it to them I went and updated and re-posted it on my site just to make it look good. They made the purchase, so it worked out. I would just have been embarrassed if I had sold them the other version. Trouble is never enough time to go back and fix/update everything.

 

[Zuzah]

So Zuzah in his teens, when he only needed 3-4 colors and could pop out a new colorization every 15-20 minutes.

I hate showing my early stuff. Yesterday I had a customer request an image that I had done 3-4 years ago and before I showed it to them I went and updated and re-posted it on my site just to make it look good. They made the purchase, so it worked out. I would just have been embarrassed if I had sold them the other version. Trouble is never enough time to go back and fix/update everything.

Haha, yeah. I remember I took 5 minutes on a portrait once - amazing turnaround. Nowadays it's an hour or two per simple portrait, a lot more stuff to do, very meticulous. But hey, I was in my teens 2 years ago, I was in my teens when Prometheus first reached out!

I had a magazine use a really, really early colorization. I requested that I update it first, but they didn't have time for that - and it was on the cover.

Still have that magazine, I would still proudly display it, but man it's not pretty.

 

[civilwarincolor]

Haha, yeah. I remember I took 5 minutes on a portrait once - amazing turnaround. Nowadays it's an hour or two per simple portrait, a lot more stuff to do, very meticulous. But hey, I was in my teens 2 years ago, I was in my teens when Prometheus first reached out!

I had a magazine use a really, really early colorization. I requested that I update it first, but they didn't have time for that - and it was on the cover.

Still have that magazine, I would still proudly display it, but man it's not pretty.

Love it, five minutes on a portrait! Those were the days when you did everything with a mouse too and not a drawing pad.

 

[Zuzah]

Love it, five minutes on a portrait! Those were the days when you did everything with a mouse too and not a drawing pad.

C'est la vie

 

[civilwarincolor]

C'est la vie

I remember when I was a kid my parents used that phrase a lot. I thought they were telling me to "say la vee". I remember asking one time, why do you always want me to say "la vee"? Why did they have to use French??

 

[frontierchris]

What others do you have besides him?

 

[frontierchris]

Zuzah you there?

 

[frontierchris]

Zuzah?

 

[frontierchris]

Mads Madsen, is that your real name?

 

[Zuzah]

Mads Madsen, is that your real name?

Yes it is - I don't archive my photographs after rank, but unfortunately after name.

You can use the search function over @ reddit.com/r/ColorizedCivilWar and see if you hit any results - or try the forum you're visiting.

Most of my photographs have been posted here, Chris.

 

[civilwarincolor]

Frontierchris, (if that is your real name)

You can also find Zuzah's CW images here and his images from other era's here. I would encourage you to stop by and purchase a few of the ones you are interested in.

 

[CMWinkler]

Mads colorized a General Bate for me that the Camp had made into a beautiful framed portrait as well as colorizing my avatar of Col. Winkler.

 

[Zuzah]

Mads colorized a General Bate for me that the Camp had made into a beautiful framed portrait as well as colorizing my avatar of Col. Winkler.

I'm glad you still remember that, did someone really frame the Bate portrait? That's awesome! I had no idea.

 

[CMWinkler]

Not great lighting as it hangs over my bar area between Camp meetings. They printed it on canvas for me.

 

[frontierchris]

I'm afraid reddit doesn't work, and David my actual name is Chris Carter.

 

[Zuzah]

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Not great lighting as it hangs over my bar area between Camp meetings. They printed it on canvas for me.

That's awesome, thanks for the picture, I really appreciate that - I'm happy you like it so much!