ClicksyPicsWiggle animations and more!

Starting with the earliest known photographs, moving on to the first high speed photographs and other historically interesting images… a must read for history and photography enthusiasts. Click here.

Click the photos to see the large version.  Be warned, some may be disturbing to young children and easily grossed out adults.  Enjoy!

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Here’s some fantastic restorations from civilwarin3d.com.  The work on this site is simply amazing.  I’m linking the ‘compare’ section, truly some of the finest restoration work I have ever seen on these old stereos.  Be sure to take a look around elsewhere!

Civil War in 3D

I wanted a kind of old film look with this one.  I had to get creative.  Searching for any type of old film effect in Photoshop always turns up prints - which is cool,

I think I have “Rebecca” floating around somewhere on this website… Click here to view a Yahoo! slideshow showing some of the old post-war propaganda cards.

A little more progress:

Here it is with more frames, which makes for a slower wiggle:

Finally, a new animation! Per Jullian’s request, here is the first draft of Lincoln in color. It’s pretty rough, but I’m glad to have started moving my fingers (and my brain) just a little bit more. I think I’ll do some touch-ups, this is just color and alignment, no cleaning. I’d also like to add some kind of movement, even if it’s just a simple blink… maybe a smile? I’d be glad to hear any suggestions!

I found this pretty interesting and thought you might too.  It’s an old stereo showing what the uploader suspects is a UFO.

I found it interesting but I’m skeptical.  Notice the clouds?  See how they’re really wavy and unnatural?  It’s as if the clouds moved by during exposure.  I find it more likely that a bird flew past while the photo was being taken, and because the exposure likely took a second or two, it appeared as this elongated ‘UFO’.

Most of us can get a similar effect by setting a slower exposure time on our cameras and aiming at an area with birds -  a tripod helps, and maybe a rock to get em to fly.  I find it unlikely that it was a smudge on the camera lens or plate, as the smudge would have to be identical on both lenses or both plates. I can’t see the second image very well… no opinion there.

Still, pretty cool. What do you think?

1864 - Aiken's Landing, Virginia (vicinity). Young girl at Aiken house

I fell in love with this image when I found it about 6 months ago.  Since then, I’ve struggled to imagine what to do with it.  She’s too stern to smile, her hands are fixed and her dress is too complex.  Then I noticed a bit of a wind blur where the ribbon on her dress is, and it occurred to me - the movement can be made primarily in the environment.  I focus too much on the subject when, sometimes, manipulating the environment can give it more of a real feeling.

Some details struck me when working with the full sized image.  She was married, and she was a very hard worker.  She’s young, yet her hands are scarred.  One nail appears to be just growing back in.  Her face shows a hard life, yet her hair and dress are immaculate, despite the windy day.  So I guess because of all these details, it was important to me to get her right.  Seeing things like that make the person more real to me and, hopefully, more real to you as well.

UPDATE - You can now save this TIFF file and open it up in Photoshop (or comparable product), if you would like to pick it apart to see how it works!  Click here to download.

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1873 - Fontinelle Weller posed as Columbia

I’ve added additional motion in 3 places on this image.  You get a hint, the additional animation is all on the girl.

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