I have an issue with olde-timey large format and/or roll-film photos presented like this. Most of the ones on that mashable article look scanned and minimally processed, for example the church is obviously and distractingly crooked in one of them.
I've seen this sort of thing before: negatives get scanned in, and in the name of "not interfering with the artistic vision", they don't get even a minimal white/black point adjustment, let alone a grey point that would make skin look like skin or any other reference you might want, or rotate the image to straighten that damn church up. All of these methods have an equivalent (or analog) in the photochemical darkroom, and all were routinely applied.
So why do the ding-dongs scanning these in not 1) do at least a little bit of post besides "invert", and 2) publish the raw fucking scans as well?
