Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 16 December 2007 in People & Portraits.
To think, all these girls would be in their 50's now (or thereabouts). I went into this Edinburgh shop and saw what looked to me like a lot of young girls from the same family working there. Everyone was very friendly and appeared to be very happy --as they also appear to be in this photo. I asked if they would pose for a photo and all of them emptied from the store and lined up just as you see here.
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Wow it looks like it was just taken, but by the hair styles the girls do look from the early 70's.
16 Dec 2007 7:15pm
@JoeB: It seems like maybe a little Ektachrome fading here, but I can't be sure --but by comparison with yesterdays image, the color seems to lack a certain vividness, though it may just be that the slide was slightly underexposed.
Looks like a fun documentary-to-be, 12-bit. How are you? We're having a huge winter storm. 12 inches of snow & counting. Great shot, btw.
16 Dec 2007 7:17pm
@Carson: Snow, what's that? I think it did get down to freezing here, or nearly so, last night, but it's in the 60's this afternoon.
Really cool, hot time will make everything Old. I as a child of late 70's, think of picture of these kind as related to beatles age. Very interesting.
16 Dec 2007 10:33pm
@Amir: Wow, had a nice long reply all written out and lost it with another site server error. I frequently have problems with the servers here. I guess I'm a slow learner. By now I should know that if I'm going to bother with a long reply, I need to do it in a text editor or copy it somewhere before I try to post it to the site.
These shots seem to have converted very well to digital, you're far more technical than me! What a great memory and view of (fairly) recent history; love the shop coats which probably hadn't changed in decades at this point, but have all vanished today! Also details like the modern lights but traditional store opening-times sign and old-fashioned way of lining up products in the window... Can't imagine shop staff being willing to abandon the store for a group photo today either!
17 Dec 2007 6:59pm
@Daroru: You're very observant. I had a rather long reply to Amir about societal differences between then and now but lost it in a server error and didn't feel like re-writing it.
I used to have an old parallel port film scanner that I thought worked pretty well but the manufacturer didn't support it with new drivers for XP; that put a halt to film scanning until a couple weeks ago when I got this new Nikon 4000 DPI scanner. It's a big improvement over my old one --more resolution for one thing, and more control. It also can detect and correct for dirt and scratches by using infrared light so I find post-scan cleanup to be minimal.
These girls were very friendly in an innocent and charming way --that I was obviously a foreigner and tourist may have helped in this regard. Today I think a young single man with a camera asking to take a photo of young females would probably be viewed with more suspicion and cynicism.
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