18.6.11

Sepia Beach

In the spirit of the preceding postcards I take a try at electronic hand-tinting in the attempt to "improve" these badly yellowed snaps from my folks back in Michigan in the late Forties.

I might add that from my personal experience, I don't think I can remember my dad ever going swimming. He was typically under a tree, fully clothed and probably off in a poetic trance.

The original

The Tinted

And the Monochrome.
Which dost thou prefer?

12 comments:

  1. The hand tinted are quite fun. Almost otherworldly.

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  2. I think I prefer the black and white versions.

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  3. I like the first pair. I have wanted to try doing something like that.

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  4. Definitely hand-tinted....what application did you use?

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  5. I like the hand tinted. They look so...hand tinted.

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  6. I like the Black and White...and the Hand tinted which reminds of old post cards :)

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  7. Hi T., I use PhotoStudio 5 for the PC for manipulation.

    When I was growing up there was still some color differentiation in these shots from my folks' album, but as you can see from the top set, yellow has subsumed all else.

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  8. It's a tie between the black and white and your hand tinted.

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  9. I like the hand tinted, give a sense of fun and whimsy. Like the flower in her hair :)

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  10. Nah, the hand-tinted win hands down. Lovely pictures.

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  11. Great! Mix the tinted effect with film grain features and you might produce your own vintage postcards.

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