Commentary: The original photograph (shown at the top of the page) was taken from a Brownie camera that came equipped with a lens smaller than a ping pong ball, and yet with a little work we can pull some pretty discernable features from within the depth of field of the original shot. Ordinarily, such enlargements taken from small prints will only reveal so much, with blurring to be expected... and yet, this is still a perfectly lovely image, perfect for web or email...and perfectly viable for print, as well.
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Commentary: This sample montage shows you what can be revealed from a thumbnail photograph (a termthat was coined in the early days of photography and not from the digital age of web design, as one might suppose). From a tiny one-inch print, we enlarged it to a decent photographic size (represented digitally below the original). The large, restored image on the right is a web-enlarged version for sample purposes only, showing you the detailed work of the restoration. However, as mentioned above, photo restoration doesn't have to be limited to prints; sharing images via email attachments or on a website is an excellent way to repurpose your old photos. Also, if your mom is like mine, she cornered my grand parents before they passed away, and had them identify siblings from old photographs like this one... the only problem being, she penned in the name right on top of the photo with ink. That's something we can correct and restore, as well...The squalling infant was my great grand uncle Jack, the boy holding him was my namesake, Perry Tice Allison.
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