My most recent photo colorization - Omaha Beach landing

Hey guys! I'm a digital artist who works with photo colorization&restoration and I want to share with you my most recent finished work. WW2 is one of my favorite subjects to discuss, learn and bring back to life through my work, so I hope you like it. Here you can see my portfolio: https://www.flickr.com/photos/132844921@N08/

If you guys have any photograph you would like to see restored and/or in color, I accept comissions! Feel free to send me a message!

 

Usually I'm not a fan of colorizations (most are very poorly done), but that is a nice one. Nice work.

 

Very well done!

 

I'm really glad you like it. Thank you!

 

Thank you so much!

 

Yes, very good.
How many hours would it take you to transform the picture to this quality?

 

Fantastic. I know absolutely zilch about digital photography or color restoration. How on earth do you dignose or illuminate the original color scheme?

 

It depends on the photo.... This one was around 5-6 hours..

 

I always take some minutes to do my research before start to apply the colors. I have a photo reference for the uniform, another for the sky, sea, beach, pebbles, acessories, etc... It takes a long time. The most difficult part for me is to identify the uniforms.

 

If you guys have any photograph you would like to see restored and/or in color, I accept comissions! Feel free to send me a message!

 

Interesting goggles on the one soldier, would have been great for the sea spray, sun and battlefield dust but a hindrance to the peripheral vision a lot. Great colorization work.

 

Very well done. Congrats!

 

A great piece, thanks for posting.

One quibble, though. There were a lot of dead men in the water, so a little red might be in order. Keep up the good work.

 

Hint: Including (crediting) the Original image for comparison purposes would be nice.

Found at: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/helping-the-wounded-omaha-beach

 

Welcome to the forum!

You might find a bit of work in Restoration of damaged photos too.

 

Yes, indeed it would, especially since it is neither a New Zealand or an Imperial War Museum photo. It is U.S. Army Signal Corps photo ETO-HQ-44-5060 (SC195060). The still photo was taken by Private Louis Weintraub of the 163d Signal Corps Photo Company on 12 June 1944. There is also a film sequence taken at the same time by Walter Rosenblum. It is usually attributed as being on D-Day, but it is not (I made the same mistake in my book Cracking Hitler's Atlantic Wall).

 

Should this be moved to a sub forum where it may be found more readily? Art of War or perhaps one of campaign specific sub forums?

Looks really good by the way.