Art & Inspiration The Violence Of Technology

Those photos look great. I like that stuff.

 

WOW

 

Thanks Ryan !!! The colorization is very good. At the time of the picture, the car was blue….if you look at the right side, that is very close …..but since it has been a little over 70 years since that picture, I could be mistaken

 

Very cool, all of them!

 

I was scrolling through and That Merc came up. I thought "I don't remember hearing of it ever being White". I got myself! Made me look at it again, and it really is special.
The nose in the first picture looks exactly like a painting.
It's funny how it has some 'blind' spots and just glitches to no color added.

 

Hello,

As far as discovering old film in a cannister, that is still a good thing. Yes, the overall longevity supposedly gets to fading if processed and developed. But, there are shops/businesses in every metropolitan areas that still do precise developing like the old days. The Kodak Processing is a locked technology, but developing labs have garnered the technology to allow processing to develop those old films. It cannot be labeled Kodak Processing, but film developing of all kinds from box cameras of old to metal cannisters of “found” 35mm film still exist.

Old 35mm cameras still exist and there are folks who still shoot film for color and B/W results. But, only the hardcore photographer would have access to their home developing processing we all used to do way back then. But, these days, our computers can do a lot of processing adjustments. Colorization, as we used to laugh at those old photos that looked like Frankenstein did the work. If the original negative/color slide/black and white print is legible, then the miracle of computer photo processing can be used to show what it may have looked like back then.

Jnaki

Some good, some washed out and although the new tech AI is there, it still is in the “Eye of the Beholder.”
The slide film was too washed out and so I mounted the negative on a 35mm frame. Then I used my computer photo program built into the overall computer functions. By using the color, it looked awful. By using the minute detailing, the black and white photo came into as good a focus as possible. The old dust motes were removed and as small as a 35mm film is originally, one cannot enlarge it. The grains in the old photo itself get too large and the print goes back to the old Tri-x or even slower Plus-x days.

Note:
I found an old color film strip from the late 60s and the prints were washed out. But, with playing around with our computer photo programs and some meticulous editing, the prints looked better than when found. Not as good as when they were taken, but ok. Not for enlarging to wall size prints… yikes!

I do not rely on AI as it has its own parameters. It is not my eye as to the memory of the old photo, so how can a program think back to those push button shutter times at that moment of capture? It works with averages…. Average color, average background scenes, Levis and grass remain the same…

As far as developing or converting my old films, there were several large companies offering to develop the films into digital copies of the originals. But, they were too far away and I did not want to send them my original reels to change over. So, I searched locally in the coastal cities and came up with a local shop that is still in business and has a great lab facilities. It does not look like a hospital emergency room, but a clean office/lab work area to get the job done.

The results were outstanding and if, when I find the lost 1940 Willys Coupe build/racing films that I took and converted to VHS for my brother, that place will get the honor of converting it to a high quality digital process for our family files. For all of those that have old films, converting them to digital is the only way to preserve them for the future. Copies last until the hard drive freezes. So, make multiple digital versions and put them on modern flash drives with no moving parts. 5TB flash drives are smaller than a pack of cigarettes and can easily be stored or carried in a woman’s jacket pocket, as well as those tight pants. HA!

Note 2:
As far as dropping off your oldest at the campus dorms, this is just steps away and has given us plenty of calm moments, just to be water side and the comfort the view offers a moment of peace/tranquility. The college life is harried enough, but, places like this within walking distance, always helps calm the mind and vision for the road ahead.

We saw this point and surfed with our friends who were enrolled at UCSB. Many years later, our son under the recommendation of a close family friend with ties to UCSB mentioned the dorm residence at the far west end of the campus in Goleta. (Francisco Towers) The short stroll to the vast “hidden” Isla Vista beachfront offered plenty of “calm moments” necessary to get into the college curriculum and lifestyle.

Our family had ties to UCSB. One of the most prolific high school hurdlers in track and field became an art professor at UCSB. His sister married my brother and they all lived in various parts of Santa Barbara coastline communities. The art professor is gone, now, but his knowledge helped us all get accustomed to the great community of Goleta-Santa Barbara as a great place to live and play.

So, don’t worry about the college life at UCSB. If our son can get through 4 years with top grades, there is no worries from our part as parents of a kid enrolled at UCSB… noted as one of the largest “party schools” in the USA. Who doesn’t like a party or two to help adapt to the college life?

My wife chuckles at the question. For anyone in a college environment, a part of college life is gathering of like minds and meeting new friends. So, what is wrong with that? YRMV

 

Stu Hilborn’s lakester after the flip?

 

This one came out pretty well. (Although the front scallops are blue/black.)
Two of the best looking cars on the salt IMO.

 

Love that 33 nose on the model a.