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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: Glynm on Saturday 09 December 17 15:04 GMT (UK)
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A scan of a great grandfather I received sometime back. Can anything be done to improve it?
Many thanks
Glyn
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My try. Sorry, couldn't do a lot with the face of the other figure.
Peter.
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Hi Glyn,
Any chance of a rescan at a much higher definition - 300dpi at least. This is reading about 98dpi at the moment - on my computer anyhow!
This is what we get currently when we try to enlarge to fix Great grandfather's face.
It is pretty hopeless, but a better scan could make the difference.
Wiggy ;)
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I've had a go and dispensed with his mate! ;) (apart from the odd knee!)
Not good, but maybe a little clearer.
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Hi.
Thanks Peter much improved. I wasn't too bothered about the other figure since I haven't a clue who it is.
Wiggy, unfortunately I do not have the originals they were scanned and sent by my cousin a years ago. Since it is a rural area where he lives the internet might have been poor and that is why he kept the file size small. Things might have improved by now and I will ask if he can re-scan it.
Glyn
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At least you get the idea from what's been done! A genial looking man!
Was he really missing a finger on his left hand? Or is it just tucked in?
He looks as if he would have made an ideal Father Christmas! ;) :) 8)
Wiggy
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Yes Wiggy he was probably guilty of consuming too much of his own product being a cattle dealer. He would buy the Welsh Black cattle from the Llyn peninsula farmers and transport them by train to the markets in England. There is a story in the family that the only scales capable for weighing him were weighbridge for the cows.
In his younger days he would of been very fit since he was a drover and walking the cattle across Wales to London and other towns in England.
Glyn
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One from me
Pat
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Oh what a lovely looking man.
I think that finger is missing the other one crosses right over it.
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A Happy New Year to everyone and a special thank you to everyone who worked on improving what is a very poor photograph. They all have their merits, I particularly like Paula Too's treatment of the beard. Yes I think he has lost part of his middle finger but I do not know how. I know he started work at the Trefor Granite Quarry when he was fifteen years old making granite setts, the square blocks used at the time for paving the new streets in cities like Liverpool. It might of been a industrial accident during that time or later when he had a butcher's business.
Just as an aside I am guessing the photo was taken in the 1890's or 1900's and it is interesting see he is still wearing a tall bowler type hat (not sure what they are called) favoured by Ken Dodd's Diddy Men and Welsh Drovers. To illustrate the point I attach a famous photo of Drovers in the second half of the 19th Century. I guess in his younger days Robert would have been as slim as them.
Glyn
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Yes, you can well imagine that finger being in the wrong place at the wrong time with jobs like that.
Hard to think of him slim, but as a drover I should think he was just like the men in that photo.
Great old feller, loved doing it.