Hi, I'm Jecinci, a 36 years old architect & 3D Artist from Romania with a passion for colorizing black & white photos. For me, colorizing black & white pictures is a hobby that opens a vibrant and dynamic window into the past, through which memories become a vivid reality.
I started this hobby of photo restoration five years ago, after seeing a tutorial on YouTube by chance, with an old photo of my grandparents and continued with other members of the family. The next step was to improve my skills, and, with the help of some of the best photo editing artists in the field (Olga S., Doug B., Dragos A., Florin R., Patty A., Jared E., Mads M., Jordan L. & others, to whom I would like to say a BIG "Thank you!"), I managed to do that (and will continue to do so, I hope).
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Young Princess Diana With Her Guinea Pig Peanuts At The Sandringham Pet Show, 1972
After a while, I started to concentrate on portraits until I managed to get a good grasp on them. This improved my "technical" Photoshop skills and gave me the courage to tackle other types of vintage photos like landscapes, war scenes, cars, city life, and all sorts of miscellaneous subjects.
George Washington Carver, March 1942
I like to colorize images that intrigue me and my imagination. Images I'm curious to see in color, besides portraits of important or less important figures, some more or less known, some more or less controversial. I like to give people that follow my work images that will set them on a path of discovery and a bit of knowledge. That will put a smile on their faces, or make them remember a part of history (like they do for me). By doing this, I also share with them a bit of myself, a bit of what interests me.
Albert Einstein Wearing His Levi's "Menlo Cossack" Leather Jacket, 1938
Frank Sinatra Arrested, Mugshot From 27 Nov 1938
I would like to thank the people who follow my work for their support, and I hope that I will be able to keep them interested in the future with the images I have not yet colorized. You can follow me on my social media and see my other works on my website.
Here is a part of my over 1300 colorized photos. I hope you'll enjoy them
The Lumière Brothers (Louis On The Left & Auguste On The Right) In Their Laboratory, Lyon, France, Ca. 1925
Billie Holiday And Mister, February 1947
She had a innocent look about her here, later photos show the pain and suffering
Girl With A Bird And A Dog, Boston, Massachusetts, US, 1920s
Newly Engaged Couple, Senator John F. Kennedy And Jacqueline Bouvier, Relaxing At The Kennedy Family Home In Hyannis Port In Cape Cod, Massachusetts On The 4 July 1953
Illuminated Tires Developed By Goodyear In 1961
Unpacking Mona Lisa At The End Of World War II, 1945
lmfao they all there staring and Mona Lisa just there with that smirk like "hullo".
Paul Newman's Navy Enlistment Photo, 1943
Audrey Hepburn
Charlie Chaplin In "Shoulder Arms", 1918
Here’s a fun fact: The pancake makeup that looks so white on the screen and in stills was actually a pale green. (I’ve done a lot of reading on the early days of cinema, and this is one of the bits that has stayed lodged in my brain.)
King Ferdinand And Queen Marie Of Romania Arriving At Dover, UK, For A State Visit, 12 May 1924
Clark Gable, 1946
Albert Einstein
King George Vi Riding With His Daughters Princess Elizabeth (Later Queen Elizabeth II) & Princess Margaret In Windsor Great Park, 21 April 1939
Marlon Brando, 1950
I love the idea of cold blue lighting on one side of his head and the warm light on the other.
Fokin & Fokina, Cleopatra Ballet Costumes, Stockholm, 1914
"Pistol Pete" - Frank Boardman Eaton
Giraffe Women Looking At A Guard, Posted At St. James's Palace 16th Century Main Gate, During Their Visit In London, 1935
These are the Kayan (Red Burmese) people of Myanmar (then called Burma). The rings go on when they’re very young and they wear them for the whole of their lives.
Romania, 1930s
Am I the only one who thinks that the colour photos seem to make some the pictures look older?
Frances Benjamin Johnston, Self-Portrait (As New Woman), 1896
Laurel And Hardy
Finnish Soldier Looks At A Burning Town, 1944
By the way, Rovaniemi is officially considered a city, and it's not just any city, it's located exactly at the pole circle, it's the hometown of Finnish Eurovision Song Contest winning rock band Lordi, and it's the place where you can visit the house of Santa Claus. In winter it is full of foreign tourists.
Fokin & Fokina, Scheherazade Ballet Costumes, Stockholm, 1914
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy And John F. Kennedy Cutting The Cake At Their Wedding, September 12, 1953, Newport, Rhode Island
Arnold Schwarzenegger Posing At The Victoria Palace Theatre In London, Circa 1968
That was just before women stopped being allowed to have any fat on their stomachs whatsoever or they were considered chubby, at least in almost all shows and movies (not necessarily music videos). In the movie industry, she's be considered plus-sized now. So stupid.
Bela Lugosi - A Hungarian-American Actor, Famous For Portraying Count Dracula In The Original 1931 Film
Desmond Thomas Doss (Hacksaw Ridge) & His Wife Dorothy, After Receiving The Medal Of Honor From President Harry Truman, October 12, 1945
Wonderful and spectacularly brave person who made a stand based on his moral values and never moved a bit (Pls forgive a humorous comment since he looks like CR7 with a moustache on this one)
Malcolm X And Muhammad Ali, New York, March, 1964
Neil Armstrong, Nasa Research Test Pilot, With The Bell X-14 At Nasa Ames Research Center, February, 1964
Butchers In A Bucharest Market, 1932
These are all stunning, but I bet this one took A LOT of work. Stunning
Martin Luther King Jr. And Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. Share A Laugh In Davis' Dressing Room At New York's Majestic Theater In 1965
Podu Ros Neighbourhood Viewed From The The Palace Of Culture With The City Pool In The Foreground, Iasi, Romania, Early 20th Century
Salvador Dali, 1954
US Civil War - Officers Of The 69th New York Volunteer Regiment Pose With A Cannon At Fort Corcoran - Col. Michael Corcoran At Far Left, 1861
Winston Churchill, Cigar In Mouth, Gives His Famous ‘V’ Sign During A Visit To Bradford (Lister's Mill) On December 4, 1942
Romanian Woman In Traditional Costume From The Early 20th Century
Audrey Hepburn Putting On Lipstick At Her Home In Mayfair (65 South Audley Street), London, September 1951
"The Rat Pack" In NY, Carnegie Hall's Backstage, 1960s
Main Square In Brasov's Old Town Centre, Romania, Early 20th Century
President Lyndon B. Johnson And A Turkey Presented To Him In The Fish Room Of The White House, November 16, 1967
Queen Marie Of Romania Visiting The Pyramids Of Giza, Cairo, Egypt, 1930
Fire Spitter - Cracheur De Feu, Boulevard De Rochechouart, Paris, 1949
Marlon Brando With His Father, Marlon Brando Sr., Los Angeles, April 1, 1955
Brando was a good looking man, though I think he had mental issues!!
Kirk And Michael Douglas, 1960
Michael’s face has changed so much, I didn’t recognize this as a younger version
French Soldiers & Red Cross Dogs Before Departing For The Front Tuileries Gardens (Place De La Concorde Gate) Paris, France, 1915
The Wreckage Of The Messerschmitt BF 109e4 In Kent On 5 September 1940 During The Battle Of Britain
Marine Dwayne L. Boice (Kansas City), 3rd Battalion 5th US Marines, Burns Out A Weapons Emplacement. North Korean Gunpit, Wolmi-Do Island, Inchon, 15 September 1950
My father was in the Korean War, and I found out at his funeral that he received three Bronze Stars. I’d had no idea.
Kirk Douglas As Michael Midge Kelly In "Champion", 1949
Bucharest, 1930s
Buick Wildcat 3
King George V On Horseback At Buckingham Palace In 1914
Marie Gonzales Of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, Circa 1930s
Germany, 10 Oct 1944
A Scene From "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1935 Film)
Avram Iancu Square, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1930s
Charlie Chaplin Visits Winston Churchill And Family, At Chartwell House, Near The Town Of Westerham, Kent In South East England, 1931
It is very interesting that Chaplin visited Churchill in 1931 (so - during Churchill's wilderness years). That would seem to indicate that he too may have chilled by the rise of fascism in Europe although, of course, Hitler's Chancellorship was some time off yet.
WW2 Flame Throwers Army War Show, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 27, 1942
Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager
Henry Ford In His 1896 Quadricycle During A Visit To Detroit, July 30, 1942
Princess Marie Alley, Iasi, Romania
Romanian Crime Thriller "With Clean Hands"
WW1, Corbie Albert Area, France, 1916 - British Army Soldiers Moving In Devastated, Wet And Muddy Conditions On The Somme Front At Ancre
Adolf Dassler, A Founder Of Adidas
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, 1946
Senator And Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy And His Campaign Manager, Robert Kennedy, In A Hotel Room During The DNC, Los Angeles, July 1960
I shook hands with Bobby Kennedy on his final swing through California—it was only a few nights later that he was shot.
Corvin Castle And The Main Market, Transylvania (Romania), Ca. 1900
Enrico Caruso, 1918
Enrico Caruso was staying at the Palace Hotel in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, which happened at 5:12 a.m. He was so terrified that he never returned to California.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
Clive Staples Lewis
Hiram Bingham III, 1917, A Possible Inspiration For Indiana Jones
Jane Maas
The colorization on this pic, like all the others, is masterful and adds dimension previously unseen. That being said, colorization is never meant to be "an improvement," as if the photo somehow fails in monochrome. It just makes the photo more real and immediate. Thanks for sharing your work.
US Civil War - 13 Inch Mortars - Ca. May 1862, Yorktown, Virginia. Battery No. 4, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, South End
WW1, Somme, September, 1916 - A 6 Inch Howitzer Being Hauled By Manpower On Caterpillar Tracks Through The Mud Near Pozieres
WW2 Alignment Of De Havilland DH98 Mosquito Mk.IV Of 105 Sqn RAF RAF On The Ground Marhamn, 11 December 1942
The most beautiful - and possibly the greatest - plane of WWII.
WW2 Troops File Past The Burning Wreckage Of A German Dornier Bomber, Shot Down While Bombing A Belgian Town, 14 May 1940
General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, General In The United States Marine Corps
Richard Bong, Ace Of Aces, 1945
Robert B., 355th Fighter Squadron, 60's
Very well done. You have a good eye for color and use it sympathetically. Far better job than most colorists I have seen lately. Will look for more of your work in the future. Keep up the good work.
I'm most impressed with your portraits and the amount of life brought to the images with your use of color. The subjects feel so much more real and tangible, like they could be someone passing you by on the street. Incredible work!
The colour really brings the life back into these photos! Well done!
Very well done. You have a good eye for color and use it sympathetically. Far better job than most colorists I have seen lately. Will look for more of your work in the future. Keep up the good work.
I'm most impressed with your portraits and the amount of life brought to the images with your use of color. The subjects feel so much more real and tangible, like they could be someone passing you by on the street. Incredible work!
The colour really brings the life back into these photos! Well done!
