clifford_thornton Posted January 22 Report Posted January 22 On 1/21/2025 at 7:48 AM, jazzbo said: IMO it's best to leave the originals alone. Just my take in this world of "what is real" I'd like to see what's real be really real. as an archivist I agree in most instances, unless clarification of said image is necessary to aid in research purposes. Quote
Kevin Bresnahan Posted January 23 Report Posted January 23 16 hours ago, clifford_thornton said: as an archivist I agree in most instances, unless clarification of said image is necessary to aid in research purposes. As I said in my comment, I agree that original prints should always be left in their original state. However, once digitized, it's fairly easy these days to fix minor problems like those folds and bring out more detail with some judicious use of contrast. To be honest, it looks like whoever scanned this originally didn't do a great job with the contrast settings, so at least in this instance, some tweaking would almost be welcomed. I don't really understand the thinking about this either. We have thousands of pages of posts here on the forums discussing which hard copy of musical performances sound the best. None of us want to play scratched up 78s to listen our music. This is the same thing. Just like judicious use of EQ, noise reduction, de-clickers etc. improves the sound of the music we play, some cleaning up of original photographs can do wonders to improve our enjoyment of the photo. Quote
Kevin Bresnahan Posted January 24 Report Posted January 24 5 hours ago, rostasi said: That looks like a bad use of noise reduction. Quote
Dan Gould Posted January 24 Report Posted January 24 On 1/20/2025 at 6:10 PM, Dan Gould said: Guesses? Â Â Now I am told on the FB Rare Jazz Photos page that to the right of Blue is Tommy Turrentine. Quote
Gheorghe Posted January 24 Report Posted January 24 19 hours ago, rostasi said: incredible: Each of them personal favourites of mine. At least I can say that I saw each of them live on more than one occasions.... Quote
Aggie87 Posted January 27 Report Posted January 27 Joshua tree, Yucca Valley CA - 23 January 2025 Quote
BFrank Posted January 29 Report Posted January 29 On 1/27/2025 at 9:55 AM, Aggie87 said: Joshua tree, Yucca Valley CA - 23 January 2025 Scenic! Quote
Aggie87 Posted January 29 Report Posted January 29 2 hours ago, BFrank said: Scenic! It's a beautiful area! We spent a few days hiking in Joshua Tree National Park, which was stunning - far more beautiful than I expected. Felt like a giant Flintstones movie set, but real lol.  Quote
BFrank Posted January 29 Report Posted January 29 2 hours ago, Aggie87 said: It's a beautiful area! We spent a few days hiking in Joshua Tree National Park, which was stunning - far more beautiful than I expected. Felt like a giant Flintstones movie set, but real lol.  Unique landscape, for SURE. I was only there once, over 10 years ago, but I remember it was REALLY HOT. Quote
Aggie87 Posted January 29 Report Posted January 29 11 hours ago, BFrank said: Unique landscape, for SURE. I was only there once, over 10 years ago, but I remember it was REALLY HOT. They had snow the day after we left. Quote
BFrank Posted January 30 Report Posted January 30 13 hours ago, Aggie87 said: They had snow the day after we left. Wow - great shot, too! Quote
Rabshakeh Posted January 31 Report Posted January 31 11 hours ago, rostasi said: Is this real? What's it from. Quote
Rabshakeh Posted January 31 Report Posted January 31 32 minutes ago, rostasi said: The Detroit News (Feb. 2, 1933) Pretty grim stuff, but I guess it was 1933, so there was grimmer stuff in the news. Quote
Gheorghe Posted February 1 Report Posted February 1 23 hours ago, Rabshakeh said: Is this real? What's it from. Very very interesting life of Freda Kahlo really. I could not read very well the article, but it seems that she is painting and dressed like housewomen those days when they would cook. I think she would have been a very very beautiful woman too if she had done a bit something about here thick eyebrows, I mean make them thinner. I heard she had a relation with Troțchi. It is interesting we didn´t know nothing about him over here. Lenin was omnipresent, Stalin was not mentioned any more.... but Troțchi, they say he was a comunist, but didn´t he leave the URSS before it even started to exist ? Quote
Rabshakeh Posted February 1 Report Posted February 1 32 minutes ago, Gheorghe said: Very very interesting life of Freda Kahlo really. I could not read very well the article, but it seems that she is painting and dressed like housewomen those days when they would cook. I think she would have been a very very beautiful woman too if she had done a bit something about here thick eyebrows, I mean make them thinner. It's the way it profiles her as being Diego R's little wife, who is trying out painting as a hobby. Quote
Kevin Bresnahan Posted February 1 Report Posted February 1 9 hours ago, rostasi said: When New Jersey's "most famous invention" is shown to be air conditioners, you know this is really wrong. At Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ in 1947, physicists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented the transistor, which revolutionized our world. It is one of the most famous inventions in the world nevermind the US. Quote
Aggie87 Posted February 1 Report Posted February 1 6 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said: When New Jersey's "most famous invention" is shown to be air conditioners, you know this is really wrong. At Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ in 1947, physicists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented the transistor, which revolutionized our world. It is one of the most famous inventions in the world nevermind the US. You could also easily go with the lightbulb. Quote
Kevin Bresnahan Posted February 1 Report Posted February 1 3 hours ago, Aggie87 said: You could also easily go with the lightbulb. Except that Edison's lightbulb was just an update of earlier attempts by other scientists. While I get that he was the one to perfect it, he didn't really invent it. https://www.livescience.com/43424-who-invented-the-light-bulb.html Quote
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