Here is my latest photo restoration and video editing project, in memory of father, Vaclav ‘Taci’ Dusil.
| Collage |
14 hours |
The concept of this layout came to me a few months ago, one evening just before I fell asleep. The first challenge was to get the black matte just right so that the design would size to my printer. I also needed to make sure the wings would settle neatly within the matte. Next was to group, scale and space the photos to the size of the angel wings. |
| Photo Montage |
72 hours |
Video editing was a tedious process. I had to essentially re-size each picture all over again – this time in Adobe Premiere Pro, then animate each photo in sequence to mosaic the wings. The ‘Taci’ animation was done in Adobe After Effects. |
| Photo Restoration | 198 hours |
There are 138 photos in total – 69 in each wing. The work spanned two months. Many of the original photos were annotated by my father. I initially used them in the collage, but I felt that the final layout was too messy with the added text. |
| Passion | ∞ hours |
My dad maintained a beautiful visual diary of his youth. It’s been a privilege to restore his photos, and create a lasting archive for my family. I’ve joined a group of individuals in the genealogy community, who have felt the emotion from that split second in time when a photo was taken. |
• Taci
If you missed the other Taci posts, you can link to them here:
- 3 • Taci
- 5 • Mamička & Taci • Wedding
- 10 • Taci
- 16 • Taci
- 21 • Taci • Angel
- 28 • Taci
- 30 • Taci & Gabicko
- 32 • Mamička & Taci
- 35 • Taci & Googičko
- 41 • Taci & Gabičko • Judo & Karate
• Photo Montage
• 4 minutes 52 seconds
• Collage
• 8 minutes 10 seconds
• Photo Restoration
• 29 minutes 23 seconds
