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Tony W.
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My name is Tony, I'm 20 years old, from Southern California, and I found some old family photos in my great grandmother's wooden cedar chest. I've been scanning the negatives that interest me and maybe they'll interest you too.
I scan all my photos at 2400 (3200 for b&w) dpi, color correct them, and adjust value settings in Photoshop (Dave sometimes does a few more adjustments). Then I scale them down and upload the photos here.
More recently, a family friend told me that he'd opened a trunk that he inherited in 1964 (when he was a kid). It hadn't been opened since he got it until now. In it was a little box of negatives that his uncle, Bill Bliss, had taken from the thirties until the trunk was closed in 1964.
He knew of my hobby of scanning my own family's old photos so he let me borrow them to scan. But because it's not my own family that's in the pictures, I know less about them. Still, they're here for your enjoyment.
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