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On 9/17/2022 at 6:54 AM, ser_franklin said:
no worries, my pleasure. I have a lot more to share, but i've been refraining from doing so as much as i could have/wanted to because there is a very annoying Instagram page named stephseymour.rare which clearly takes my scans from here (as well as other people's scans) and watermarks them with their own Instagram page name as if those pictures belong to them when they didn't buy the magazines those pictures come from (some of those old "rare" mags are really pricey, i can attest for that), nor did they scan any of those pictures themselves. I don't mind anyone sharing my scans at all, on the contrary i support that (as a matter of fact, my previous profile name here is brazilianaffair, all those scans are mine too), but for someone else to just slap their name on them like they had anything to do with the fact that those scans even exist it's a different thing, and it's rude, when i am the one who spent the big bucks to get those mags and catalogues, and who took the time to scan and share them. Sorry for the rant, it's not directed to you, but I know that that person takes my scans from here because this is the only place I post them. If anyone wants to share them on thefashionspot or other forums please do, i don't have a profile there, just please don't claim them as your own. Or buy and scan your own mags. Thanks
Hey, I follow that instagram account and because the timing between your posts and that account is so similar I just assumed you were the owner of the account. That is definitely aggravating that they are taking credit when you are the one acquiring the rare mags and doing the scanning! I've seen what are almost certainly my scans on instagram pages and it has never bothered me, but that's because I've had my catalogs and mags for a very long time and I'm not spending big bucks these days to make new scans. I also did not realize that you are one and the same as brazilianaffair! That explains everything
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According to her brother, as reported by Rolling Stone:
According to Jacobs, Dean was staying in New York with her fiancé, Luke Volker, when she started experiencing some “minor” symptoms that concerned her enough asked Volker to go with her to an emergency room. She then died in a matter of hours, Jacobs says, with the exact cause of her death still pending an autopsy that was underway Wednesday.
“This happened literally within the span of a day: getting a headache, going to sleep, waking up her boyfriend and saying please take me to the hospital,” Jacobs, 21, tells Rolling Stone.
“We still aren’t entirely sure (what happened). There’s an autopsy being done which we know might take quite a while. But what we have heard it that there was a viral infection in her lungs,” he says.
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On 6/27/2021 at 5:40 PM, fumi said:
For @RocketQueen and @BlueAcadia🤎
Escada 1990
Scanned by me
Apple M1 & VueScan 9
Epson V550 - 24Bit Color - 400ppi
Restoration & Color Corrections - Adobe Photoshop
Uncompressed TIFF File & Lossy JPEG
JPEG Image(s) - (TIFF Files shown as attachments)
Amazing work! I use the same software w/ same settings and also spend a lot of time retouching/cleaning up in Photoshop. I noticed there's a bug in the version of VueScan (9.x) I'm using, where the descreen filter doesn't cover the entire image (leaves a border around the edges that's not filtered). I've been manually applying the minimum amount of gaussian blur to remove the halftone pattern, which is more accurate for preserving detail.
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56 minutes ago, ser_franklin said:
I've seen this pic only super small, she looks amazing, thanks. VS was on a whole different level back then! Have you heard that the company has announced that they will not use the "angels" anymore starting this year?
Yeah, and I guess the Angels had served their purpose and we're totally played out (just like the V.S. fashion show), but I'm not a fan at all of the new direction V.S. is taking. The ideals of female aesthetic beauty and "sexiness" are not going anywhere, so if V.S. no longer wants to carry that torch that's fine - no shortage of other outlets happy to celebrate that kind of beauty - but it's such a complete reversal of their whole image that I could see it not working out. "Go woke, and go broke."
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On 6/26/2021 at 12:29 PM, RocketQueen said:
Hanae Mori 1994
Photographer: unknown
my scans
I just scanned that image on the right yesterday and was going to post! I'll post it anyway because I spent some time trying to make it perfect. I also scanned a bunch of other images from V.S., editorials, and ads. A lot of them are images that have been seen before, but these will be my super HQ scans
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5 hours ago, ser_franklin said:
i have rescanned that one, and switched it, will do the same for the remaining ones as i'll get the time. I have some more catalogues of her, will upload them soon. Not the Spiegel one unfortunately, that would have been great to see
You rock! Thanks so much. Is your scanner by any chance one of those scan/print/fax combo type machines? Something looks funky even at the higher resolution. The best quality is with a dedicated flatbed scanner. The one I used I actually got for free from a friend, and the only issue is that it's not very big. Depending on where you are you could probably find a used one really cheap. The tech hasn't really changed or improved much in 20 years as far as I know.
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25 minutes ago, dimple said:
I would love to get the pic of her from VS where she was sitting in a chair with her legs crossed in stockings. Hottest picture i've ever seen in my life.
Is it one of these? The one from 1993 is a giant file, the other two are high res but smaller. Forgot resolution since I scanned them a long time ago.
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On 5/30/2021 at 1:13 PM, ser_franklin said:
Stephanie Seymour with Charlie Haugk, may 1990, wearing Gianfranco Ferre', by Alberto Tolot
my scan
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I would love to see the one quoted above (Stephanie Seymour with Charlie Haugk) scanned at 400dpi or better. She looks so beautiful there.
She looks great in the German catalog you scanned - I wonder how much catalog work she did that is now lost to the ages. I had the Spiegel 1992 (giant) catalog at one time, but I let it get thrown out, which I know regret. She had tons of photos in it which I've never seen since. This one:
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4 hours ago, fumi said:
Escada 1991
Scanned by me
Apple M1 & VueScan 9
Epson V550 - 24Bit Color - 400ppi
Restoration & Color Corrections - Adobe Photoshop
Uncompressed TIFF File & Lossy JPEG
JPEG Image(s) - (TIFF Files shown as attachments)
Amazing!
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2 hours ago, ser_franklin said:
Thanks for the hints and suggestions... Technology is not my forte 🥴, but i'll give it another go soon, since I have more scans as well 👍🏽
You'll thank me later, trust me! Here's another post from a few years ago with my scans, and in the post I said "600 dpi, no blur or descreening," which is maybe overkill, but no doubt the best quality:
One more:
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Great content, ser_franklin, but allow me to give you some tech advice with scanning: If you're going to take all of the time to handle the originals and put them on a scanner, you need to be scanning at 300dpi minimum resolution, maybe even 400dpi. Keep the originals, and then process another copy with a very subtle blur of only 2-3 pixes (I forgot the exact settings), which won't affect details but will eliminate the interference patterns of the dots on computer screens so the scans look good at any zoom level.
If you search my posts you can see examples of how scans look with these settings. Here's one:
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Stephanie Seymour
in Female Fashion Models
Your work is always appreciated!