Sixty Years of Transport Photographs

Black & White to Digital

I first started taking photographs in my early teens during a family holiday on the Isle of Wight.  I began by using my grandfather’s folding roll-film camera.  Miraculously a few of those early photos have survived.

By the mid sixties I had progressed to a 35mm camera using colour reversal slide film.  Many of these photos were taken on Agfa or Fuji film, or more dubious brands.  Time has shown that such images have not survived as well as those taken on the more expensive Kodachrome.

Later still there was a switch to colour prints.  Happily I had kept most of the negatives, so at least the variability of printing by high street photo labs has been avoided. Eventually along came digital photography.  Reducing the marginal cost of each photo to zero led to the inevitable explosion in the number of images.

Digitising and Correcting

Almost all the 35mm slides and negatives were digitised at home using a specialist Nikon 35mm film scanner; a few were professionally scanned.  Where appropriate automatic colour correction was applied at the time of scanning.  The early B&W photos from roll film, plus a small number of colour prints where the negative was missing or badly damaged had to be scanned from the prints.

Images have been adjusted as necessary using Photoshop, although finding an acceptable colour rendition from some of the older photos has been problematic.  As far as possible images are normalised to a standard 300 dpi.  Digital images larger than A4 at this resolution have, in most cases, been reduced in size.

Viewing & Using the Photographs

One click on any of the images will open a “lightbox” where you can scan through all the photos in that gallery.  The size of the image will depand on your device.  To view a photo full size you can either:

• On a PC: Right Click on the “lightbox” image and select View Image; or
• On a Mobile Device: Double Tap on the “lightbox” image and use Pinch to expand the image.

My purpose of putting these images on a website is to share them.  You can download Full Size versions of all the photos, but please respect the Creative Commons License shown at the bottom of each page.  Photo sizes vary between 0.5MB and 1MB.  If you wish to include any of the images in publications or for other commercial purposes, please contact me via permissions@ultimabrighton.net .

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