Restoration Examples

[civilwarincolor]

I have been really impressed with the restorations that @Mike Serpa has done over the years and decided to post a select few of my own to show comparisons of the original and the restored and colorized versions.

I have a total of eleven of the images on this page. BE WARNED some on that page are GRAPHIC per the standards of this forum.

EDIT forgot to put in the link. Thanks @Mike Serpa

The ones below are for general consumption.


Capt. E.P. Doherty and Boston Corbett

Burning of railroad ties at Atlanta

1st New York Light Artillery; Fort Richardson; Fair Oaks, Va; 1862

General & Mrs. Custer (two sides of a stereo view)

 

[Mike Serpa]

I have been really impressed with the restorations that @Mike Serpa has done over the years and decided to post a select few of my own to show comparisons of the original and the restored and colorized versions.

I have a total of eleven of the images on this page. BE WARNED some on that page are GRAPHIC per the standards of this forum.

The ones below are for general consumption.


Capt. E.P. Doherty and Boston Corbett

Burning of railroad ties at Atlanta

1st New York Light Artillery; Fort Richardson; Fair Oaks, Va; 1862

General & Mrs. Custer (two sides of a stereo view)

These are very impressive. Restoration takes a long time. I can't imagine how long colorization takes! Excellent work. Is there supposed to be a link to other photos?

 

[civilwarincolor]

These are very impressive. Restoration takes a long time. I can't imagine how long colorization takes! Excellent work. Is there supposed to be a link to other photos?

Thanks Mike, shows you what happens when I try to do a post 5 minutes before I go to bed. Had been up since 4 AM and should have taken a little more time to check that.

The time for the restoration depends on the type of damage. People really seem to be drawn to the ones with broken plates, but to me those are some of the easiest since you just break them into separate pieces and move them like a puzzle. The one (like I know you have done so many of) where you are just changing hundreds or thousands of little marks and spots that you get into this routine where you are working on that look good when you are zoomed in and then when you zoom out you end up with a mess! Hate that!

 

[Mike Serpa]

Thanks Mike, shows you what happens when I try to do a post 5 minutes before I go to bed. Had been up since 4 AM and should have taken a little more time to check that.

The time for the restoration depends on the type of damage. People really seem to be drawn to the ones with broken plates, but to me those are some of the easiest since you just break them into separate pieces and move them like a puzzle. The one (like I know you have done so many of) where you are just changing hundreds or thousands of little marks and spots that you get into this routine where you are working on that look good when you are zoomed in and then when you zoom out you end up with a mess! Hate that!

I think the broken plates look most dramatic when repaired.
Link is working now. Thanks.

 

[civilwarincolor]

I think the broken plates look most dramatic when repaired.

Oh, I agree, when I show broken plates in the presentations people are much more impressed by that then when I show them something like the Atlanta one (below) that I literally spent a year trying to figure out a way to resolve some of the issues.