I’ll bet the originals were large format, with great depth of field. Wonderful detail and focus.
Meanwhile, I think there is room to improve his AI of blinking. Seems too quick and frequent, and a ‘signature’ of his work.
The sidebar features other colorizers with the same AI
Or the AI has added field of depth, the detail and focus. Hard to know. Maybe the AI also scrubber any makeup that was on the faces too. They are so natural and soft which we don’t think of as qualities of early photography... at least I don’t. I think of something like bleached out pictures.