Old Bali Photos

ronb

Was this 1928 pic an really early example of colour film, or has it been colored in from a B&W original?

tintin

ronb wroteWas this 1928 pic an really early example of colour film, or has it been colored in from a B&W original?

It would seem to me that this was taken using a color film. The colors on the skins and on the sarongs are too finely defined to have been colored in.

Markit

Does it really matter? With photoshop you can now fake most any picture and some of the programs/apps will do it all at the press of button. I think it's a lovely picture and shows the naivete that I just love about those old snaps (and you can still find enough of here on the island). Please more...

Rangi

[quote="ronb, post: 91377"]Was this 1928 pic an really early example of colour film, or has it been colored in from a B&W original?[/QUOTE] I believe it is an early example of colour film taken by a National Geographic Photographer.

1928 Bali Indonesia - to Balinese Man Prep Chickens to fight each other for entertainment

1928 Bali Indonesia - A Balinese Man carries pots with a pottent drink to be sold at market

1928 - Two Balinese Woman carry temple offerings of fruit on their head

tintin

Markit wroteDoes it really matter? With photoshop you can now fake most any picture and some of the programs/apps will do it all at the press of button. I think it's a lovely picture and shows the naivete that I just love about those old snaps (and you can still find enough of here on the island). Please more...

I know, most of you think that EVERYTHING can be done with photoshop. Well, good luck with that picture. But I agree with you, it's a lovely picture (but the kind I have seen thousand of times).

Rangi

[quote="tintin, post: 91420"](but the kind I have seen thousand of times).[/QUOTE]

tintin

1987. Paksabali. Ending of the Dewa Mapalu, at Pura Timbrah, when the pratima refuse to go back to the temple. Many of the participants fall in trance and the whole place falls apart. :black_eyed::black_eyed:

Rangi

Balinese woman is dancing with a tourist, 1930s

Jalan Legian, 1986,

The last Bali tiger was killed at Sumbar Kima, west Bali, on September 27, 1937.

Lioness45

Please put them on FB site Lost Bali. I am sure people will love them.

Rangi

Pura Basukian Puseh Jagat, Besakih, 1930s,

Taman Sukasada's water palace, 1935,

Gate of the temple complex at Batur, partly buried under lava. Date I am not to sure on .

Markit

Lioness45 wrotePlease put them on FB site Lost Bali. I am sure people will love them.

I would echo that wish but would prefer the pix in original size and format on one of the cloud storage options so that we/I can download them all at one go. I'd love to do a collage of "then and now" on a larger format background but I need the original shots to be as high-resolution as possible otherwise they lose every time you change/copy them somewhere else. Cheers

Rangi

I wish I could help.

Markit

If you can't, who can?

LilyRose

Fantastic photos -Thank you for sharing..

Rangi

Peliatan then and now..

Rangi

Guess I got it wrong then

JohnnyCool

A lot can be done with software like Photoshop, onONE Perfect Photo Suite, even the much maligned Gimp. The bottom line is GiGo (garbage in, garbage out). If you have a poor quality image to start with, it's an up-hill struggle to make it "better". For example with audio, if you have a crummy mp3 file at 128kbs, there's no way you can turn it into audiophile quality. It's impossible. With images, however, you can "improve" them, up to a point. Unless your're synaesthetic, you can't hear images. And "seeing" music won't necessarily help you turn out a great painting. I thought about one of the images above and decided to have a quick play-around with it. The one in the post is a small 50 KB JPEG. That's almost like starting with nothing. So I went through the following steps: * Saved the image from the post (as a JPEG) * Increased the size to 140% using PhotoZoom Pro 5 and saved it as a TIF file * Opened that in Photoshop CS6 * Checked the Levels (seemed OK) * Removed a few blemishes using the Healing Brush * Made a duplicate layer * Used Topaz Adjust 5 and tweaked the image a little * Merged the layers and saved the image (as a TIFF) I tried a few other steps on the saved image but mostly gave up in the end. (GiGo factor plus one too many beers). I did a fast conversion to a warm B&W which looks OK to me. It took me about 10 minutes in total (including a few others that I didn't like much). Now what I have to do is convert my worked sample pics to web-friendly sizes (so I can drop them into this comment), thereby losing quality again. In case you're wondering why I increased the photo in the first place... There is some very good software that can increase image sizes without apparently losing "quality". (This is good if you want to blow-up a photo to print it later. Photoshop has [I]some[/I] ability to do this, but there are dedicated programs which can do it better, such as PhotoZoom Pro and what was formerly known as Genuine Fractals, now Perfect Resize in the onONE Photo Suite. I have blown-up images by as much as 100 times the original size and they still look pretty good. These programs use sophisticated algorithms to do their magic. They don't just add more pixels.) Another reason is that modifying JPEG images is a losing battle. It's far better to convert a JPEG to a TIFF and edit that. Each time a JPEG is modified, more image data is thrown away. The image becomes highly degarded very quickly. Please keep in mind that I am NOT a Photoshop guru, but it's amazing what can be done with nearly nothing to start with. Oh and I forgot to mention. "Working" on the "original" image didn't hurt my eyes, [I]too[/I] much. [I]"Original image"[/I] [ATTACH]1870.vB[/ATTACH] [I]"Modified image"[/I] [ATTACH]1871.vB[/ATTACH] [I]Black and White version[/I] [ATTACH]1872.vB[/ATTACH]

joji gulapetis

If we can get into the source of these photos….. Northern exposure: photography show kicks off year of Indonesian art at National Gallery - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) :topsy_turvy:

Rangi

Jl Legian. 1972 and now

JohnnyCool

[b]Gardens of the East Exhibition[/b] Some wonderful images there for sure. Difficult or near impossible to get hold of the originals. [B]But[/B] there is another way to get reasonable copies with a bit of digital imaging "magic". I copied several of the (small) preview images off the ABC website and played around with them. Nothing radical - saved them as TIF images and removed a few spots here and there with the Healing Brush in Photoshop CS6. Apart from that, I didn't use any fancy filters or plug-ins. I did resize them using PhotoZoomPro 5, in one case to as much as 1000%, to see how they'd look. [I]Remember that I started off with tiny images.[/I] In the case of the Javanese girl from 1885, I blew it up to 1,000%. That gave me a print size of 2.4 x 3.25 [B]metres[/B]. Obviously, I can't print that out at home. The point is that at even at such a huge size, the image still looks pretty good. The file size was a whopping 182 MB. I couldn't save it "for the web" in Photoshop, so I had to make it smaller by 80%. Then saved it as a JPG file at moderate quality. The other images are blow-ups at 140% and 200%. (I should add that you need a computer with a fair amount of grunt to pull some of these off. Lots of RAM, a fast graphics card and zippy CPU.) Here are some of my results (click to see). [B]Borobodur (1872) at 150%[/B] [ATTACH]1878.vB[/ATTACH] [B]Javanese girl (1885) at 150%[/B] [ATTACH]1879.vB[/ATTACH] [B]Javanese girl (1885) at 200%[/B] [ATTACH]1881.vB[/ATTACH] [B]Javanese girl (1885) at 1000%[/B] [ATTACH]1880.vB[/ATTACH]

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