Excellent colourised photos

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RussellZero

Wannabe Stravati
Amazing how much the colour adds, makes them feel much more real/close.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Wow!

I especially liked the video showing how the Abraham Lincoln photograph was done.

My dad died 10 years ago this week. When I was going through some of his papers, I found an envelope containing old photographs including one amazing one of him on bomb disposal duties as a young man in WWII. Unfortunately, the picture had not been looked after. It had faded, been folded in half twice, torn, and had white gloss paint spilt on it. I decided to have a go at restoring it. This was the end result ...

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Some parts of the picture were too badly damaged so I just had to paint over them with clones of other parts of the picture. Still ... I was pretty happy with it! (I feel like having a go at colouring it after watching that video, but I would need to use more sophisticated software than what I have used in the past.)
 
I am a bit torn on this subject. In a way I like them to be original as they are history and that is how the image was presented at the time. But then with the colouring being done so well now it does add to the image. Also even at the time of black and white they did desperately try to make things coloured.

I think the difference was that on the old hand tinting it was just a tint of colour over a grey shade. Now they turn the grey shade into a colour.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Great pictures. @ColinJ you did a fantastic job restoring the picture. Well done.
I had copies printed for me and my two sisters. I had a 4th copy framed for my mum, and she cried when I gave it to her. I thought I had upset her, but she was just so happy to receive it. She had met my dad soon after the photo was taken and they got married a year later. They were together for 61 years.
 
Slightly OT,

I have always wondered how History would have played out if we had been able to use modern technology to record events.

The BBC once did a couple of programmes (Time watch?) where they reported historical events as if they had been covered by a modern news team.

Imagine Fox News covering the War of Independence!

How would Agincourt look on the BBC?
 
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