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.
This one is enlarged slightly also.
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ENHANCEMENT
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There are now more than 8,000 photographs in the Lost Gallery. Or try out the NEW BACK PAGE INDEXBassingbourn 1944 
Long lost negatives taken during the winter of 1944-45 at Bassingbourn AAF base in England.
Area 51 and a Half 
You are probably not authorized to see these.
Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! 
This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.
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THE KIDS 
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 
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?
WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
"What are they doing?"
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.
ReplyDeleteThanks 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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