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Is the goal of photo colorization to depict reality as we would see it if we were there or to depict a color photograph? The reason I ask is that so many colorized photos look almost like wide dynamic range at best or often have a washed out painting quality, but in both scenarios lose the qualities/traits of photography. I'm not sure if I'm making sense with this, but do you try to preserve/incorporate light leakage of the camera, do you think about how different film brands (e.g. Fujifilm dxf 800) would have captured the scene and have the traits of a particular film's color and shadow rendering in mind? To what degree are you asking, if this was still a film picture, but using color film in a similarly constructed camera, how would it have rendered the scene vs. how would the human eye directly perceive this scene in color?

Thanks for the answer, but I guess I'm getting at something a little different. So when you imagine it as a color photograph, are you imagining a specific type of film it would have been shot with and aim for that film's particular nuances - like Provia vs Astia, or Fujifilm vs Kodachrome? Or if as a digital color photograph, imagine a specific camera's treatment of saturation, etc (e.g. Canon vs Pentax)?

So are you modeling the colorization with consideration of a particular hypothetical toolset that would have been used to produce the color image, or is that like a level of detail that's too deep to have any real payoff?