Frederick & Isabella Emerson

[ourbill]

I hope some improvement can be made. My equipment is getting a bit old and out of date.
Frederick & Isabella and the family seem to be at a Christening sometime between 1904 and 1908.
They had eleven children.

[loord74]

No enough pixels to go further please r-scan with 300 dpi to gain better results

[Mike Morrell (NL)]

Hi ourbill,

Here's a clean-up from me. Like Loord74, I think you'd get better results with a better quality scanned file:
- scan at 300 dpi or 600 dpi
- check your scanner settings to make sure that the jpg file is saved with the high quality (=low compression)

I noticed that the size of the scan file was very small (51 KB). This is about 10% of the maximum size allowed on Rootschat. I also noticed that the scan file had large 'blocks' which obscure the details (especially in faces). If you zoom right in (200%-300%) you can see them.

These 'blocks' are usually the result of saving jpg files with low quality (= high çompression), especially if the scan was made at low resolution. I've included a zoomed-in crop of the original photo to show what I mean. I've smoothed out the blocks but I can't recover the lost detail. Take a look at Cazza's scanning tutorial: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=198165.0

Mike

[Trishanne]

One from me
Pat

[Treetotal]

Hi ourBill....(That sounds like I'm talking to my Brother
Are you sure that this is a christening photo? I noticed that the baby is laid in a very unnatural position and I wondered if it could be that they lost a baby during the dates that you mention as it could be a Post Mortem photo.

If you have the original photo it would scan better if you scanned only the photo and not the mount, example from my scanner shown below to help you.
If the photo is postcard size or bigger, then 300dpi should be fine, a bigger scan will produce a file size that may be too big to post as the file size limit on here is 500kbs which won't help if you need to reduce the file to post.

The restorers have done well with what they had to work with, but maybe more detail can be brought out with a better scan.

Carol

[Trishanne]

I'm glad you noticed that Carol, I think the position of the baby is very unnatural too.
Pat

[McGroger]

Been holding off on this one to see if ourbill could come up with a better scan. I guess not, so here's my try.

Hope you like all the restores, ourbill.

Peter

[Wiggy]

You could be right Carol - The parents don't look very happy do they.

Wiggy