Old photographs: Remembering the past

[dc2]

Love the thread and love your addition to it . have a karma for your efforts

[Bugsman]

This is an old photo of my father and my grandfather. Don't know which dog it is. This shot was taken around 1949 or 1950. That's the basement in my grandparents home in New Jersey. I did some minor restoration, but couldn't get rid of the glare on my grandfather's pants.



Go to http://bugsman.typepad.com/worth_a_1000_words/

[Paul Shields]

Bugsman - I've modified your post to include the image (just need to place the image link inside the [ img ] brackets). Hope you don't mind.

There are some posts in 'Moderator Announcements' with some tips on posting/showing images etc. You often find that picture posts get more of a response if the image is in the thread rather than a link to it.

Welcome to the Camel by the way. Looking forward to seeing some more of your images!

[Paul Shields]

It's about time this thread was bumped as it's such a wonderful view into the past. It would be great to see some more images from a bygone time (and it doesn't need to be that old - I think the 70's is almost ancient history these days ).

[dave502]

1954......a picture taken with an old Kodak Brownie by my mother of me having to give my little sister a ride on the bike. I don't think either one of us was real happy about it.

[dc2]

dave502 Have your first Karma for keeping this thread going with that nice old pic.

[edawn]

I'm beginning to sort through some old pics from my grandma, and I came across this one. Unfortunately, it's been rolled up in the shape of a tube for so long that it has creases in it when I try to lay it flat. (Any ideas on how to unroll and flatten a picture, with the least damage??) It's so long I had to trim the edges off in the scanner. In the left corner it says, " A.L. Monroe, Cottage grove, Ore, 1916." The building says, "Walker Union High School." On the back is this hand-written message:
Take this home and show it to your parents and then bring it back to the teacher, and if you want one or moore, bring the teacher 50 cents each. Order now for if you do not you will wish you had by-and-by when you can not get one. A. L. Monroe, Photographer.

Elaine

[Paul Shields]

Elaine, that's such a great panorama. I suspect some of the damage to the film should be easy to correct digitally via the clone tool/spot healing brush in Photoshop. I don't suppose you still have the negative as well? It's a really interesting photograph. I wonder what the original medium was for it to be so wide?

[edawn]

Originally Posted by Paul

Elaine, that's such a great panorama. I suspect some of the damage to the film should be easy to correct digitally via the clone tool/spot healing brush in Photoshop. I don't suppose you still have the negative as well? It's a really interesting photograph. I wonder what the original medium was for it to be so wide?

I wish you could see the detail that I see in the actual photo. It's a much better picture than what is visible here. It is 15 inches (38.1 cm) x 4.5 inches (11.4 cm). On the far right side, I had to cut off three girls. One is holding a ball up in the air about the size of a basketball. She's holding it up as if to shoot a basket, but she's looking towards the photographer. I wonder how long she held that pose!? I don't have the negative, and I don't know what medium was used. I believe the photographer was an ancestor of mine. I would really like to get the original framed, but a couple of the creases are getting weaker, so I'm afraid of "breaking" the photo, but I would love to have it flat so I can stand back and look at it.

Elaine

[Jon Foster]

Rescan the picture as two parts in the highest resolution you can with plenty of overlap and no altering done during the scan. Stitch it back together and clean it up in Photoshop. I'll bet you can have a shot better than what you have right now.

Jon.

[edawn]

Thank you. I'll have to try that!

Elaine

[amandajilesse]

I love looking at old photos. Thought I'd post some old photos of my Dad. He passed away about a year and a half ago so pictures mean a lot.





He always loved motorcycles

[JDArt]

Love the first one, Amanda. Shows where he came from.

Hey, everyone: you need to make your pictures no more than 700 or 750 pixels wide; otherwise the thread becomes impossible to navigate.

[amandajilesse]

I'll have to just delete the big one, there's no way for me to resize it, at least that I know of I got it off my sisters webpage. I'm kind of a computard. Let me know if the other ones are too big.

[dc2]

Great addition to this thread amandajilese.
I would have a go at restoring some of them as a back up .
You never want to lose these.

[Paul Shields]

Originally Posted by amandajilesse

I'll have to just delete the big one, there's no way for me to resize it, at least that I know of I got it off my sisters webpage. I'm kind of a computard. Let me know if the other ones are too big.

I really liked the big one - you should have a go at resizing it. The guy on the left reminded me of James Dean/Martin Sheen. Quite a handsome man I have to say .

[amandajilesse]

Yeah my sister and I have a little crush on him. I'll have to figure out how to resize it, that's my favorite one.