VGN Images by Barriger Edited for Your Taking and Use

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Abe,
Thanks for doing this.  When I hit your link, I seem to only be able to
access a single image.  Is there a trick I am missing?.
Jim Cochran

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 10:28 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> You may have seen the recent discussions about the VGN images held in the
> John Barriger collection at the St Louis Mercantile Library.  If you have
> viewed them, you are aware that most of the negatives were scanned
> wrong-side-up.
>
> I have been through those 130-some scans and have culled 101 negatives
> which I deem worthy of keeping for my own collection.  They have all now
> been cleaned up in Photoshop and they are presently on Google Drive for
> your taking at this link:
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XI-6845YDPD0ZWRTPJ0jkLnPezwwYHWd/view?usp=sharing
>
> In working with these images, it became apparent that Mr. Barriger wasn't
> much of a photographer.  It appears the camera salesman did not even show
> him where the focus knob was on his camera !  It looks as though  he made
> his exposures without ever changing the focus or the apperture and shudder
> speed.  There is also a lot of motion-blur in his negatives.  But despite
> these shortcomings, they are priceless, for most everything he photographed
> is now GONE.
>
> From the collection, I culled out duplicate or near-duplicate images,
> negatives which were total wrecks because of exposure problems and those
> with hopeless focus problems.  I attempted to rectify exposure and contrast
> problems with the negatives, and to touch out dost and scratches on the
> negatives.  In using the Photoshop sharpening tools to overcome the
> bluriness of the images, some of the edges became a little "crunchy" but
> that was just the trade-off to fix the problems.  Also, I attempted to make
> most of the crop sizes 4x6", but where those proportions would exclude
> historical material, I adjusted the size of the crops to include more
> subject matter.  I will credit the St Louis Mercantile Library with
> scanning the negatives at 600 pixels per inch, but, given what they were
> working with, that effort was like putting a Jaguar engine on a bicycle.
>
> If you are able to use the cleaned up images, that shall be my recompense
> for the labor.
>
> -- abram burnett
> June is Turnip Awareness Month !
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