Photography

Old Austin looks great in grainy black‑and‑white, but you can’t spot the brick details or storefront signs that way. In this post we test a handful of historical Austin photographs. I pulled the best old black‑and‑white Austin photos I could find and ran them through my color‑and‑detail Stable Diffusion workflow. The post shows each original next to its AI pass and gives a little detail about the original image. Thanks to Reddit Texas History as the source of most of the images....

I’ve been using ComfyUI to enhance photos from a set of over 300 aerial balloon photographs taken by the U.S. Army’s 14th Photo Section during World War I. These images are part of a bigger archive that shows everything from ruined towns to giant trenches carved across the countryside, all captured from balloons tethered high above the Western Front. What I love about these shots is how they’re basically a window into a time when aerial photography was just getting off the ground....