Family composite — two people added to an old pine-forest photo, four people at 5R

The original photo is one shot of a young man in military uniform standing with a grandmother in a pine forest. The family asked to add two people shot separately beside them — a mother and a father — for a photo of all four gathered together.

Leave it to AI and when new people are composited in, the lighting direction and shadows fall out of register, leaving them floating awkwardly. Working from the pine-forest light direction of the original, Davinci matches the light, shadow, and fabric grain of the two added people by hand, as if shot by the same camera. The original likenesses were carried over straight from the old photos, leaving untouched the expressions the family recognizes.

This work kept the original pine-forest background while placing the mother from the old photo in a camel jacket to the young man's left and the father in a beige jacket to his right, both set naturally. The height, gaze, and clothing of all four were matched into one scene and finished at 5R.

One free preview before payment, finished after the family signs off. The same 32-year standard used for memorial and restoration work applies to composite work as well.