Deruination

[Nico Braas]

Just spent more than an hour to restore a ruined photograph!
Think I just invented a new word for it: deruination!
See here the results before and after!
Vickers VC-1000 was more or less a passenger plane version of the Vickers Valliant bomber.
Building had already started when the project was cancelled and it was never completed.

[No.1]

My friend, you become great expert in photo manipulation, congratulation!!!

[Nico Braas]

Here is more deruination!
Original Fokker photo was used for publication in the Dutch aviation magazine Avia-Vliegwereld of 1963.
Photoshop did not yet exist and the publisher only wanted to use the image of the aircraft without the rest.
As usual at that time retouch paint was used to 'white-out' the surroundings of the plane.
Unfortunately the water-washable paint was not removed after use.
I had to remove it after more than 50 years by gently flusing the paint away in luke-warm water as a start.
After drying the contours of the paint were still vaguely visible since it has been absorbed into the gelatine layer of the photographic paper.
Next phase to improve the image could only be done 'electonically' with Photoshop.
I have removed the remains of the paint as much as possible and I have also slightly improved levels and contrast.
Photo shows the first F-104G fully assembled by Fokker!

[No.1]

Hahaha- like original!!!

[Jicehem]

Hello,

Very good job.

Jicehem

[Nico Braas]

Here is another example of deruination!
Original is a large size print of a glass negative.
Just like the F-104G picture it was 'whitened' around the plane for publication in the Dutch aviation magazine Avia-Vliegwereld in 1955.
They used the ORIGINAl print of 1909 for this purpose (really a shame!!).
It got the same treatment of the F-104G photo but also here the paint has irreversibly bound to the gelatin layer.
In spite of this a lot of very sharp details became visible after the paint was removed!