Old Photos: Method versus Presentation

This Photo was photocopied (multiple attempts) to gain this degree of clarity for a scrapbook. Paper selection for photocopying was crucial.

Below the same photo is digitally presented. Notice the exposure variation to bring out facial features as well as the muscle definition of the horse. This photo during the process of enhancing was literally "destroyed then brought back out" to gain this effect.

For a wall framed or mantle framed picture, the dark frame without matting I chose for my home display is "gorgeous". I love this one.

Here in this presentation form (on screen) does not compare to the mantle framed presentation (lighting contrast photo to frame). My mantle photo? The definition of the horse muscle tone is beyond my wildest vision of what could be possible!!! and the viewer can't help but sense the mystic nature created by the snow and lighting.

Photos Then and Now In Process

This photo can be restored to this level with HP Photosmart

Notice the fingerprint smudge near subject right thigh.

With coloration and saturation adjusts the fingerprint smudge can remain in the picture but appears to fit more with the background, less intrusive.

Notice in both of these restorations the natural field setting has disappeared or becomes less pronounced or distinquishable. What was a picture taken in a natural field may in later generations be interpretted to have been a studio backprint photo. This young man was an immigrant landing on US soil and later years a farmer with few if any pictures available of him in his natural environment. How fitting that this picture setting is a natural field and how much of his life story can be felt through one picture? This is where writing the story of the picture, labelling place or setting aligned with the photo or on a separate paper secured in the back of the frame maintains the integrity of the original photo.

The above photo snapshot is also in process of restoration. This change was performed with HP Photosmart. The original photo coloration patterns and lighting (and by nature of the subject and environment) appear to be sun sensitive as to time of day the photo may have been taken. So, this feature I chose to expose and build upon for the final photo presentation.

To clear the remaining blemishes and or film-print aging on either photo a program such as Adobe Photoshop could be used.

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Playtime for a Publisher

Been spending a few days, no better say months, searching what it means to be a publisher. The author part is pretty simple...find the words and find the time to put them to paper. That is simple if the words come or you don't end up spending more time and effort editing out than putting down or just not into writing at the moment.

So time in limbo, that's where all this pondering the publisher side comes in.


Where I could ponder for hours, no better make that days at a time is on an image...somehow my memory pulls closer or a story comes alive when I am playing with lighting or editing out an old watermark on an old photo. For all the modern ways to capture moments on micro there's something almost mystical about taking a photo from a time period of film...like the people come alive for me, I start to sense the day there with them, and then I'm lost in the process. Time becomes irrelevant then...time then to now or even in this now.


I love to see what can be removed from...



















Enhanced becomes...

And I love when they transform into something like this...

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