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B&W Enterprise Photos in TMOST

alensatemybuick1 said:
Well, I'm looking for something rather specific, i.e. to have all 3 B&W photos of the big E and the 1 photo of the Galileo, as printed in TMOST, all in 8x10 glossy form. I just need that one shot I've mentioned above, for a binder of some of the paper Trek items I own. I found a company that sells very nice quality versions of two of the images of the Big E from TMOST (nice enough resolution that the "tallywhacker" is even visible), but they don't seem to have that elusive final shot I am looking for. I even considered printing a B&W version of Doug Drexler's CGI Enterprise, that closely approximates the image I seek - close, but no cigar. I suspect I will find exactly what I am looking for...it'll just take time.

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I hate it when people put their damn watermarks all over these classic pictures. Unless you were actually there and shot the picture, what right do you have to put your markall over it? I restore classic Trek pictures all of the time and put a little signature on the bottom right corner. Even though I RESTORED the picture, I do not own the rights to it and I am happy to share it with other fans.
 
So what are you hating on, exactly? The watermarks in the pics earlier in this thread were from the EBay auctions I linked to a few months back; i think most people can understand why a vendor would do that. I did that in case anyone wanted to know where to get such clear photos. But for the heck of it, Yesterday I decided to post the best possible scans I could make of those photos (which I had paid for), sans watermarks, and even threw in the one I had of the Galileo.

FYI, I did my best to restore that top saucer photo I found on the interweb; I'm traveling today, but this evening I will provide the hyperlink to the (washed out) original I found and then perhaps you can demonstrate your capacity for generosity and restore it for us all - I admit that my own skills are limited in that regard.

spockboy said:
I hate it when people put their damn watermarks all over these classic pictures. Unless you were actually there and shot the picture, what right do you have to put your markall over it? I restore classic Trek pictures all of the time and put a little signature on the bottom right corner. Even though I RESTORED the picture, I do not own the rights to it and I am happy to share it with other fans.
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alensatemybuick1 said:
So what are you hating on, exactly? The watermarks in the pics earlier in this thread were from the EBay auctions I linked to a few months back; i think most people can understand why a vendor would do that. I did that in case anyone wanted to know where to get such clear photos. But for the heck of it, Yesterday I decided to post the best possible scans I could make of those photos (which I had paid for), sans watermarks, and even threw in the one I had of the Galileo.

FYI, I did my best to restore that top saucer photo I found on the interweb; I'm traveling today, but this evening I will provide the hyperlink to the (washed out) original I found and then perhaps you can demonstrate your capacity for generosity and restore it for us all - I admit that my own skills are limited in that regard.
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Well I am clearly not hating on you. I'm talking about individuals who have these pictures and decide that if they are going to share them, the world damn well has to know the name of the person that provided this particular copy. A copy, as I have already indicated, that had nothing to do with them in the first place. I wasn't picking on you. ;) (Oh and I'm sorry about your Buick)
 
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Fair enough - I guess, but the only watermarks in this thread were on photos that were available for sale, not offered as gifts.

Here's the original version of the "saucer top" image I recently found and did my best to "restore" (in case anyone here would like to take a crack at it and improve upon my amateur efforts).

https://swaggernotstyle.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/tos_bts_031.jpg

Same article has some other nice photos, including a shot of the E rollout depicting Richard Datin in a quality I don't recall seeing previously.

https://chrisklimek.com/2016/08/

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Actually in my own resto. attempt, I changed the contrast / effectively darkened the ship a bit so some of the details (like the famous "rust ring") would not be quite as washed out. A tradeoff between matching the other photos and losing detail I guess.

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alensatemybuick1 said:
Actually in my own resto. attempt, I changed the contrast / effectively darkened the ship a bit so some of the details (like the famous "rust ring") would not be quite as washed out. A tradeoff between matching the other photos and losing detail I guess.

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Damn it!
Why did you post the link to the high contrasted one and not this one?

Too funny.
 
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