Sometimes hand tinting a photo, even by a "professional," can go amazingly bad. People can be turned into jaundiced alien beings. It's not just the aging of the photo that causes this, it's a lack of understanding of color. I try to imagine what the family thought when they saw this. "Oh sure, really…fine…we'll take it." And they kept smiling.
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This is my submission for Sepia Saturday this week. I am not on theme, but I got the colors right.
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Maybe they liked having those artificially olive skin tones!
ReplyDeleteExcept that I have seen so many like this from that era that I'm starting to believe that they were intentional, just as the fashion for portraits without smiles was characteristic of the Victorian era, so these odd colourised "masterpieces" were part of a trend. A possibility?
ReplyDeleteOh sorry, went to see the other Face Wreck and clicked on over to Cake Wrecks where I've been for the last hour.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, if you're going to risk a face wreck, it's good to have your clothes coordinate.
They're ghastly, I think. But for color, for a period, that's all we had.
ReplyDeleteAt least in the first photo the 'artist' didn't try to pinken up the boys' cheeks. They did in the second photo, though. I have some old B&W tinted photos of my great grandfather and great uncles where, besides looking jaundiced, they have been given pink apple cheeks. Bet they loved that!?!
ReplyDeleteThe color tone of this photo is a bit like old upholstery or wallpaper from the same era, but doesn't have that musty smell of mildew and cigarette smoke.
ReplyDeleteOh I don’t know, I thoink you’re all being too critical. Mother's lovely rosy apple-cheeks were obviously acquired from a hard life of labouring in the sun; tending the family vegetable plot, hanging out the laundry, herding the goats......
ReplyDeleteI'm kinda lost for words really....I used to like brown....now I'm thinking maybe not.
ReplyDeleteIt looks odd to us but it was state of the art in its day.
ReplyDeleteIt has a nice vintage look.
ReplyDeleteThey do look vintage in spite of the mother's red rosy cheeks!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely, by today's standards, the coloring is awful. But it was probably modern technology at the time they photograph was made. Isn't it amazing how sepia and black and white photos never seem to look odd as this photo does? (Of course, hair styles and clothing in sepia and black and white do.)
ReplyDeleteYes the colours look like they came straight from a jar. Monochrome always allows the viewer to paint their own tones in their mind - which is a safer approach.
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