Monday, October 5, 2015

Enhancement - Looking For Lost Details - Page 53


For some, an old photograph loses its charm when "restored" to modern day clarity with all the age spots removed. 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 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.


Group outside
Group outside

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Family of Four
Family of Four

Bridge over the Columbia River
Bridge over the Columbia River

Five in the car
Five in the car

Five women in a line
Five women in a line
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Class
Class

The School Picture
The School Picture

Family Group
Family Group

Five
Five
Six girls
Six girls

Large Group
Large Group
This one is enlarged slightly also.

Family outing
Family outing

Nine graduates
Nine graduates

Group of Ladies
Group of Ladies

The Scott Family
The Scott Family

Large Group
Large Group

School Picture
School Picture
Group
Group

Group
Group

Eight Handsome Lads
Eight Handsome Lads

Group on the Farm
Group on the Farm

Group
Group

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 disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.


And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
Square America
Tattered and Lost
Vernacular Photography
The best
FOUND PHOTOGRAPH
sites on the web.

And for postcards try
POSTCARDY
And see what's going on over at
Sepia Saturday!

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THE KIDS Lesson one.
It is always a mystery how a photograph of any of these precious children could end up lost or abandoned. Here are a few. You will probably say "Ooh..." at least once.

Dee and the Business School Dee and the Business School
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
Neiffel and Helvetica Typehigh

"What are they doing?"

2 comments:

  1. Very nicely done. I don't think digital scanning gets enough credit for changing the way we look at photos, where the most important value is in enlarging the image. You've got some small snapshots here that might otherwise be ignored in the bottom of a shoebox.

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    1. Thanks Mike Brubaker. The small snapshots often benefit a lot from removing the yellowing. And yes, the bottom of a pile in a box or a tray is often where they are found; the little 828 and 127 film prints as well as the always interesting photobooth portraits. Most photographs get that treatment now just to see if there is something being missed. The old card mounted studio portraits usually gain the most. They are often either faded badly or have darkened so much the subject is completely lost, such as the next to last one on this page. The process does not "restore" completely, the photograph's original clarity but it does give a hint at how it might have looked. The first two tiny snaps at the top improved a lot but the camera was too far away to keep any detail of the group. Of course, detail can't be recovered if it wasn't there in the first place.

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