Old time photos

[@Clive]

The digital cameras that I use need an image editing program to convert the large RAW files into a compressed format for publishing online. Before they are compressed it is possible to correct some exposure errors, tweak them a bit or convert them using a variety of options including to black & white or vintage film like Kodakchrome from the 70's. One of the options is called albumen and gives the effect of the Victorian glass plate photographs like Frank Meadow Sutcliffe took around Whitby. While we were away I came across a place where commercial fishermen dried and stored their nets so putting two together........

In the second one I took the detail out of the sky as this better replicates the old timer's photographs.

 

[@Clive]

We took the dog down an old railway line footpath this afternoon and that lead us to a small Brocante, or second hand shop that has a coffee & cake shop above it. While waiting for our order to arrive I wandered around the Brocante. The photos have been converted to sepia to retain the mood....

 

[Steve Arnold]

Maybe not "old time" as you meant it, but I have old photos from film and transparent slide 35mm days that I changed to a digital format and then Photoshopped.

One fishy photo that should have been dramatic was, on film, very poor. Taken at night on a cheap compact camera with its inbuilt flash I was amazed the original had enough detail to make a meaningful photo......

Under the surface, at night, at some speed! The original film image was very vague, but with some work on Photoshop it actually became good enough to bring back exciting memories of catching porgies in the Pentland Firth in winter.

Another, taken on an old Praktica 5 35mm camera, amazing how it can be enhanced with Photoshop.......

I loved 35mm photography, but these things do move on!

 

[Steve Arnold]

During a relaxed stage of covid lockdown I visited Villefranche de Rouergue and took a few photos of the almost deserted market square.....

or is this scene more dramatic in B&W?

I wonder how many peasants had their heads lopped off there! It definitely has that atmosphere!

 

[@Clive]

Sometimes I used to restrict myself to a five quid camera from CashConvertors and a roll of black & white film. I would set off on the motorbike and look for scenes to photograph.

 

[flightliner]

Where's the gallery of beams and the Lych gate/church Clive?

 

[@Clive]

Where's the gallery of beams and the Lych gate/church Clive?

Top of Lythe bank on the road from Whitby towards Staithes & Saltburn Mick. It is the big hill that you go up after Sandsend.

 

[flightliner]

Clive, I know lythe and Staithes well, my cousin was married at lythe church and I spent several weeks over three years duringthe school holidays,
Lovely part of the country!

 

[@Clive]

A few more for you Mick....

Kipper House at the top od Henrietta Street

How did this place get its name?

Choo-choo on the North York's Railway

And another railway just up the road at Saltburn by the Sea

And our fishing spot when it was too rough to go out on the boats