Sunday, February 6, 2011

Enhancement - Looking for Lost Details


For some, an old photograph loses its charm when "restored" to modern day clarity with the yellowing and fading corrected. Some photographs however, benefit greatly from just a nudge of enhancement.

An improved contrast or the reversal of the yellowing brings out details that otherwise would have been missed and lost forever.

To please both camps of those who rescue old photographs, here are both the originals and the enhanced of just a few of the latest additions to Lost Gallery.

Again, there are some really good examples this month, where a little boost made a great difference. As always, little or nothing has been "repaired" but just enhanced a bit.


Beautiful People
Beautiful People
Portrait
Portrait

Child on a chair
Child on a chair
Boy Portrait original
Boy portrait enhanced

Man and Woman posing in front yard
man and woman in the front yard

Tea
Tea party (adjusted)

three and a car orig
three and a car

family interior original


Some days things just go right
Some days things just go right

Six on a riverbank
Four on a riverbank

Mom two boys original and enhanced

Liberty Loan Parade original
Liberty Loan Parade

Family Reunion original
There is a nice video about this one HERE.
Family Reunion

This one especially benefited from a bit of enhancement.
The Family Picture
The Family Picture

family interior original
family interior enhanced

Three Sailors - The Original
Three Sailors (enhanced)

Betty Lou at age 3
Betty Lou at age 3

Three at a picnic original
Three at a picnic

Man and Woman posing in front yard
man and woman in the front yard

Two girls on front steps
Two girls on front steps
Child in a chair
Child in a chair

Two girls on the front walk
Two girls on the front walk

Gracie and the Cat original
Gracie and the Cat
Girl by Window
Girl by Window

Can't get enough?
Look back at these other pages on
ENHANCEMENT

(Or click on "enhancement" under labels just below to the left.)

And there's more coming!

Bassingbourn 1944 384th Bomber Group, B17 landing
Long lost negatives taken during the winter of 1944-45 at Bassingbourn AAF base in England.

Area 51 and a Half Area 51 and a Half You are probably not authorized to see these.

Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! completely unaware of the photographer This is a collection of photographs that usually disappeared on the way home from the photo processing shop.

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Tattered and Lost
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And for postcards try
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