A portrait session with your next dinner

Colorized an undated vintage photo, probably taken at the turn of the century.

Winston Churchill, from a 1941 photo recolorized & stylized by Alex Y. Lim

Re colorized and stylized the photo of Churchill taken by Yousouf Karsh in 1941, using a pallet of brush strokes to give it lesser realism as a painting. Original colorized work here https://alexlimcolorization.blogspot.com/search/label/Churchill

Marlyn Monroe, colorized from a publicity photo set by Carl Perutz 1958

The original B&W was used as a cover for her book "Marilyn Monroes: A Hollywood Legend by Jessica Bailey, published in 2015.

Colorizing a Hollywood diva, Joan Crawford

Revisited an old colorized photo of Joan Crawford, from a photo of MGM's glamour photographer George Hurrel, ca 1937.  Initially colorized as this  https://alexlimcolorization.blogspot.com/2017/06/colorized-joan-crawford-in-blond-1937.html

Audrey Hepburn, my first colorized photo of Hollywood icon of simple elegance

Here's my colorized take of a 1950s photo attributed to both Arnold Newman andYousouf Karsh. Used significant colorization liberties

General Douglas MacArthur landing in Leyte, Oct 1944

Colorized a publicity photo shoot of Gen. MacArthur landing in Leyte that fulfilled his promise to return and liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation. Behind him was the diminutive Ge. Carlos P. Romulo and the on the extreme left was President Osmena who succeeded President Manuel L. Quezon who had died while in exile in the U.S. On his left was General Sutherland. Photo was taken by Gaetano Faillace. I made two versions for mid-day (more accurate as the landing was dong around 1:30 pm) and a dusk setting.

"After spending a day in a pub"

Two colorized vintages photos composited to form the subject, with a lot of digital editing/creative liberties.

Little Girl with Pet Kitten

Colorized a vintage photo of a girl posing with her pet kitten ca1900

Lighting up the street

Came across a desaturated picture of a modern European street leaving just the street lights colored and offered as a b&w downloadable PC wallpaper. Tried to scour the internet to see the original b&w or colored photo (so I wouldn't colorize) but no luck. At any rate, I like the compositional structure and completed the colorization of the scene with lens flares on some of the street light bubs.

4 boys called "doffer boys" who were part of the  Child Labor era in the US.  The jobs entailed the removal (doffing) and replacement of thread bobbins when empty in a factory in Macom,GA.  Colorized from a 1909 photo by Lewis Wickes Hine with some liberties on the background.

Mary Pickford, 1900

Colorized a vintage 1916 photo of one of the pioneers of American cinema, Mary Pickford (1892 - 1976) dubbed "America's Sweetheart" during her prime, posing with her pets, Born Gladys Louise Smith, Mary was among the founders of United Artist, and the American Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, or the Oscars.

Creating an Alternate World with colorization and compositing

I have been doing that for several colorized subjects, but still sticking to the general content outline.  Here's a commonly colorized subject of a boy in the slums of Baltimore tak.en by John Vachon in July 1938.  With my visual discomfort for useless vacant space (not all are useless though, there is such a thing as breathing space) I added a 19th century graffiti and a pet dog to create a slightly new visual content to the photo.  I like the experimented result.  Actually I had used compositing before to bring more details in my colorized, but they are mostly limited to what is hinted at in the picture and often lost due to fading,.  I also used this here  for adding a car in the rightmost background and changing the lady walking on the street to the left.   Also here: where I injected cat staring out from the window background.

Alfred Hitchcock, colorized photo with composited Psycho background

Stumbled on a highly detailed online photo of film director Alfred Hitchcock,  Has some fun compositing images from one of his more famous films, "Pyscho" on the background, rather than remain bland.

An Auto Wreck from a road accident, ca1921

Here's a colorized photo of an auto wreck in 1921.  Little is known other than it proceeded from a road accident.  Colorized in two color schemes with some creative liberties on the backdrop.

Birth of the American Flag,

This is my colorization take of a 1917 re-enactment of the event from a 1911 painting by Henry Mosler  The second photo is my attempt to correct the re-enacted image since the first US flag only had 13 stars representing the first 13 colonies. It was admitted that the time of re-enactment, the organizers did not have the original flag but used flag that was then  available, a 1917 flag containing the 50 stars

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