Last night a friend of my was showing me pictures of his grandmother, grandfather and other members of his family tree. Pictures were taking some time around 1947 or 1948. The pictures are in color. The pictures had too much blue in them. Film aged? No filter on the camera at the time to filter out the color blue?
Not enough information. Were the photographs taken outdoors or indoors?
--Bob
Bill 45 wrote:
Last night a friend of my was showing me pictures of his grandmother, grandfather and other members of his family tree. Pictures were taking some time around 1947 or 1948. The pictures are in color. The pictures had too much blue in them. Film aged? No filter on the camera at the time to filter out the color blue?
Red fades faster than other colors.
It's impossible to say for certain.
It could be that the images faded over time. Often one color fades faster than others, causing a color shift.
It also could be that the wrong type of film was used. There have been films created for daylight use as well as films to shoot under tungsten lighting. If you mix them up, you get odd results.
Images of a subject in the shade tend to be "cool" toned. Particularly when the sky is a clear, bright blue, that can tint shaded subjects quite a bit.
Filters can be used to correct issues at the time... or could be used during classic printing processes. Today it's much easier... setting custom white balance when shooting works great. But so long as images are the original RAW there is lots of latitude to change things after the fact. JPEGs have less latitude, but can be adjusted to some extent.
google
old color photographs turning blue
There are numerous suggestions.
--Bob
rehess
Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA
Some of my 30-40 year old slides/negatives scanned bluish, so I adjusted the colors on the scanner and restored them to what I remembered, so the color information may still be there to be found.
M1911 wrote:
Red fades faster than other colors.
Yes the reds do fade the fastest. It is not to hard to scan and adjust the color If you have Photoshop, let’s do this. Just go to choose image. Then go under adjustments and then down to match color. And this amazing button, it’s very simple. It’s called neutralize. When you turn on the neutralize button, boom it gets rid of the colorcast just like that.
jlg1000
Loc: Uruguay / South America
Bill 45 wrote:
Last night a friend of my was showing me pictures of his grandmother, grandfather and other members of his family tree. Pictures were taking some time around 1947 or 1948. The pictures are in color. The pictures had too much blue in them. Film aged? No filter on the camera at the time to filter out the color blue?
Maybe tungsten film used?
Bill 45 wrote:
Last night a friend of my was showing me pictures of his grandmother, grandfather and other members of his family tree. Pictures were taking some time around 1947 or 1948. The pictures are in color. The pictures had too much blue in them. Film aged? No filter on the camera at the time to filter out the color blue?
PSE has a color correct tool that likely can take care of this.
jlg1000
Loc: Uruguay / South America
Architect1776 wrote:
PSE has a color correct tool that likely can take care of this.
The OP is asking on the reason some 80 year old *prints* might have a blue cast, and nothing about on how to scan, correct and print again these.
jlg1000 wrote:
The OP is asking on the reason some 80 year old *prints* might have a blue cast, and nothing about on how to scan, correct and print again these.
So?
Who knows why?
Different storage can do dozens of different things.
I guess you can give ALL dozens though.
I have many with yellow casts, blue and other colors.
Guess you know it all so rather than bash me give an INTELLIGENT response as to exactly why there is a blue cast in those exact photos.
Regardless of the cause, the prints can be scanned to digital and then corrected in PP.
dmagett
Loc: Albuquerque NM/Sedona AZ
Bill 45 wrote:
Last night a friend of my was showing me pictures of his grandmother, grandfather and other members of his family tree. Pictures were taking some time around 1947 or 1948. The pictures are in color. The pictures had too much blue in them. Film aged? No filter on the camera at the time to filter out the color blue?
I don't know about print film. However when I scanned in slides from the 1950's. Kodachrome was perfect. Any slides I took with Ektachrome all turned blue,
rmalarz wrote:
Not enough information. Were the photographs taken outdoors or indoors?
--Bob
Prints or transparencies?
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