Probably! I've been asked to do some very strange things.... A large framed portrait of a chap with one eye with his missing eye replaced ( Just so people would know he once had two eyes!)....I had to remove a bride from a bride/groom shot and replace her with his new bride (because he liked the suit he was wearing in his 1st. wedding.)

To answer your question though I once did a wedding and was nearly finished and about to leave when I was approached by a very attractive elfin looking lady, the batteries having failed her in her brand new compact camera. I managed to fix her up with a set of batteries with sufficient power left in them for her needs before I left. About 18 months or so later she rang me out of the blue, reminding me of the favour saying she would like to return the favour by booking me for her own forthcoming wedding.

When I popped round to see her I really wouldn't have recognized her, she'd piled on about 3 or 4 stones and was stomping around the house with all the grace of a Sumai wrestler. On the day of the wedding she turned up in what was meant to a a very chic, tight fitting white suit with a sort of cut down white top hat and veil! Absolutely disastrous! To cap it all, it bucketed down with rain all day and most of the wedding shots were taken either in the dark church interior or at the reception afterwards. To coax any sort of feminine grace out of the bride when posing her for shots was well nigh impossible.

She was happy with the shots when I delivered them to her. She then confided that she'd told her mum now living in the U.S.A. that she'd lost weight for the wedding. Could I 'adjust' a few of the shots so that she could send them to mum. It wasn't really cheating was it... because she had really intended to lose the weight anyway. Suffice it to say that mum got a set of pictures of her sylph - like radiant daughter on her happy day!

The camera never lies of course.

 

Though I'm not a pro (by any stretch of the imagination), I have the Sony DSC-F707 (5 megapixel) and I've been extremely pleased with the quality and options. It has full automatic, aperture priority, shutter priority, and full manual modes; it has a Carl Zeiss lens; it's loaded with features and is *very* easy to use. I've had some shots printed (on photo paper at a photo shop), and the results have been great.

 

Cedric-

Great thread. I've had a Nikon Coolpix 990 for 1 1/2 years now and love it. I use it in my work a lot. I have also been upgrading to the 5000.

 

I am an avid amateur astronomer, although not astroimaging, (They don't call it astrophotography anymore.), like Tricks46, who has posted and PMed me some absolutely fantastic images. We both use the Meade LX200 catadioptric scope. Digital photography actually originated with charged coupled device -- CCD cameras for astroimaging.

 

Raptor.

I remember your previous posts on astronomy, that's fascinating stuff. I can't think about that stuff and the distances involved for too long without going into zombie mode Infinity is OK if you can focus on it!

There was a programme on TV the other night about how they've found black holes in every known galaxy including ours, sucking everything towards them like a bath drain hole when you pull the plug out.

 

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Probably!

 

LOL.

Bill, that's just got to be true!! I often get old photos brought to me where the features of the person are partly or almost wholly obliterated. I tactfully tell them that I have no idea what this person looked like and the picture is probably at the point where restoration shouldn't be attempted anyway. There comes a point where it's no longer a photograph. Their usual reponse is "Well please do your best it's the only shot I have of my late father /husband" I'm a soft touch when they come with that approach. If you've got half a face to work from it's not too bad, but it's a risky business. If it looks like their loved one when you're done, they're ecstatic and truthfully...... it's very rewarding.

If it doesn't look like the person ..... they're obviously disappointed and have no compunction in telling everyone you're a crap restorer!