My other hobby

[Zantetsuken]

WOW, that must have been a lot of work. 

You're not kidding. It took several hours, split up over the course of a week. The trick was using the eye-dropper to select the shading from different sections of the photo in order to repair the damaged areas. Since the photo was gray-scale, it made it a little easier to work. Next I had to choose either air-brush, pencil or paint brush. The wider areas I used air-brush to cover the area quicker. For narrow areas, I used pencil or brush to touch up the area without making a mess. It was trial and error. Finally, you see the end result. It was time consuming, but rewarding. In any case, I'm glad you liked it. Thanks


~Daniel

[Billy Kingsley]

Love the Nature photography. I wish I could afford a DSLR...

Here is some of mine...




I took this before the sun was up with no flash, so it's a little blurry...


Cape Cod




For a while I had the date stamp on my pictures....but after it interefered with a few good shots, it was gone, now only turned on for special occasions....like proving the earliest snow in memory for example!




Niagara Falls






The waterfall that gives my hometown it's name






Automotive Photography is kind of my thing...I've taken something like 25,000 photos in this field since 2003...


Believe it or not, but this was taken out my bathroom window, just last month!


I have saved my favorite for last...Lake George, NY...I love it there!




I took this photo this past September, and it's been rotating as my mom's wall-paper since then, and she also uses it as her profile picture on one of her Facebook accounts!


I have thousands upon thousands more here- I cleared 100,000 photos on my website last month!
http://public.fotki.com/ElCaminoBilly/

[cpm9ball]

This is not actually my photo, but rather one I restored. This is a photo of my mother (the woman on the right) when she was a receptionist at the Chrysler Building in New York City during World War II. As you can see time was less than kind to the original photo, so I scanned it to my hard drive, then used Photo Shop to air-brush the damaged areas. Considering this my first attempt at photo restoration, this came out pretty good. Hope you like it. I'll try to post some photos of my own, once I find ones that I like.



(ORIGINAL)



(RESTORED)

Great job, Z!

Chris

[Zantetsuken]

Thanks Chris. Considering this was my first attempt at photo restoration, the results were surprisingly good. Photoshop is probably one of the greatest inventions for computers. Before this, photos that were damaged or defaced were probably a lost cause. I'm glad I was able to salvage this one.

~Daniel

[cpm9ball]

Automotive Photography is kind of my thing...I've taken something like 25,000 photos in this field since 2003...

Amazing, and there is still some grass left!

You wouldn't happen to have any photos of a 1966 GTO Tri-Power, would you? Preferably in burgundy.

Chris

[FilthyBroke]

I love the squirrel pic, Billy! 

You guys make me want to dig through my archives and find some of my pictures, but that could be a daunting task.

[regandon]

Nice pics Billy ! Has that car ever been at ESTA raceway ?

[Zantetsuken]

I agree with everyone else Billy. These are nice photos. The squirrel is cute and that car is sweet. Thanks for sharing. 

~Daniel

[Zantetsuken]

Here's a photo of mine that I took over 20 years ago. I took this at a horse ranch near Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. It was a funny story, I was taking photos for college project, and noticed these horses grazing on a ranch. I go up to the fence and try to take a photo of the horse feeding. All of a sudden, it notices me, and starts to walk toward me. When it gets only a few paces from me, it stops and stares at me. I quickly aim, focus and shoot. I took two or three shots and the horse doesn't move and inch. When another couple noticed this, they try to take a photo too. The horse looks at them, then turns and walks away. Anyway, I hope you like the photo.

[Larry]

Wow, this thread is really fun to look at.  I think everybody has done a terrific job.

Here's an image taken by my friend Mike who lives near Detroit.  It was taken yesterday and I did a bit of editing this morning.
The editing took only about 15 minutes, much less than a lot of images I've edited. 

Mike is a coin collector, too.  We became friends through our mutual enjoyment of numismatography.