Restorations

I've been working on digitizing and restoring old family photographs for my grandmother.

My grandmother age 2 - before

after

My young grandmother  & grandfather
before

after

My grandfather and great great grandmother
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after

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Broke out the American Flyer train set.  My dad got this for christmas when he was a boy and it's still chugging.  It runs around the track with a loud electrical bzzzzzz, sparks a-flying.  Fantastic fun!  It's got a light up train station complete with little people, a bubbling oil well, a water tower with a electric activated spout that sounds like a snare drum, a bridge, and even a cattle car with cattle loading station  that sounds like an old electric razor in a tin can when it's activated.  Someday I'd like to have it professionally cleaned/refurbished and install it permanently in some sort of man-caveish location.

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Emerson Seabreeze circa 1936

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TTV (through the viewfinder) is an interesting technique that I haven't played with in a long time.  Over a year ago I built a TTV tube out of tin chimney pipe, electrical tape, and velvet.  The heart of this contraption is an old Kodak Duaflex twin reflex camera.

I know you are a rolling you're eyes now but it's a simple concept.  You take an old twin reflex camera, the little box ones with the big square viewfinder on the top (twin-reflex), and frame your shot in it's viewfinder.  Then you take your digital camera and focus on the image in the viewfinder of the old camera and take the shot.

It's really kind of a pain in the ass but it's a neat effect.

Blah blah blah...just show it to us...

1A Autographic Kodak jr

Antique oil cans

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I love antiques, especially old cameras [go figure].
I was planning on doing an image like this for a while.  I didn't realize until I started shooting that the way the viewfinder is positioned in these old twin-reflex cameras would reflect my little face in the lens.
Nifty surprise.