Image transcripion: 1951 — “Little Lebowski,” Jeff Bridges, P and his celebrity father, Lloyd Bridges.
(Originally published earlier today on beige.party)
Image transcripion: 1951 — “Little Lebowski,” Jeff Bridges, P and his celebrity father, Lloyd Bridges.
(Originally published earlier today on beige.party)
Can you explain this in a bit more detail?
Do you mean rescanned from the original negative? Is that remastering? It’s not a term I’ve heard applied to photography much.
Hence “essentially”, yep. It’s been updated, whether by hand or by algorithm or both, and the finished result is a hybrid of old format & resolution and modern graphic standards.
So I did some research I to this and yeah, it might look like that but this image was lifted from the Getty image archive where they claim it is just a high res scan of the original medium format negative.
I suspect they applied some dust removal and maybe a contrast curve.
You’d be surprised how good some of these negatives can look after all this time, right?
The image itself was taken by a chap called Murray Garrett. He used to be Bob Hope’s personal photographer, but shot loads of celebrities up until the late 60s.
Look at this banger of Marilyn Munroe![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2b45b566-b42c-4a25-9c85-909b825cee2e.jpeg)
My Samsung has a remaster option for photos that could have easily spit out an image like OP’s if applied to the original.