Old silver images?

[Jack]

Thanks for sharing this lightmuncher . I will move this thread to a Photo Game, so everyone can Share B&W images.

 

[lightmuncher]

I actually found some old images! Its not until you start assessing these old silver images do you see how clean a digital image is! I remember going to a David Bailey photographic display in Oxford back in the 70's and he was using high grained images. Which many thought of as not good photography. Nowadays, anything goes, which is a better way of being able to express what you want to convey in an image. I had to take pics for the exam and one of the images had to be of people working. I asked the orthodontist if he wouldn't mind if I take pics of him examining a patient. Which was a student nurse, who later chided me for doing it. I had to show her the image, and said we couldn't see her face. This was at the old Nuffield Orthopaedic hospital back in the 70's. They have no use for medical photographers these days sadly, which of course is of no surprise.

 

[lightmuncher]

I hope to keep these going. I am sure some of you have used ye oldee darkrooms? Maybe you have one and use it?

Brill Windmill, on the Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire border.

This image was taken with my very first SLR, a 35mm Zenit camera. I believe it was Russian? The only lens I had was a 50mm. It's amazing what you can shoot with one lens! This needed some restoration, not to sure if what I have done makes it look too unreal now? I had used the original definition of contrasts to the edges. Creating new gray sections within speckled silver isn't as easy as you would think. I did run it through Topaz A.I. which helped on the first part of the repair. The negative looks worse for wear now, as it's been kicking around in a tin for nearly 50 years now, so couldn't work with that, sadly. Although I am thinking of getting a negative scanner for B&W and colour, as I would love to resurrect images from the past, especially of my daughter who died in 2002. As it would not only resurrect past image, it would resurrect memories. Maybe not all images, as ex-wife isn't one of them! 🤯 😱