The Viral Web App That Brings Old Photographs To Life With Animation

A heritage website has found fame for its web app that can animate old photographs to bring the dead briefly back to life. But how effective and realistic is it? Before I made the leap into full-time photography, I had begun experimenting with restoring and colorizing old photographs. Several decades ago, not long after my grandad had passed away, my mum bought a service at a local photograph development store. It increased the size of an old black and white photograph and then colorized it, so my mum paid for the shop to do this to her parents’ wedding photo. I remember my grandmother being touched by it and her reveling in the extra layer of memory that color provided. I was impressed too, but while it was well researched and the colors carefully chosen (they had even found the correct colors of each of my grandad’s medals that hung on his uniform he wore as his wedding suit), it wasn’t well executed. Twenty years ago, I hadn’t seen anything else like it, but as I learned photography, I realized it was no longer anywhere near the peak of what was possible. So, for fun, I began to restore […]

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