My version…
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What my old pictures look like.
darktable-4.5.0+1173
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My guess would be that this is the “oh s***t my negatives are fading with age and need to digitize ASAP” effect
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Used an old Techicolor 3 Script-fu and Retinex for brightening/contrast. Did not add any aging effects. 
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B/W film look:
processing ind dt:
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finishing with gmic light glow filter in GIMP
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I heavily favour “Analogue Style” when I process my images, but for me that means making the image look like it was taken on film and scanned yesterday, not like a 50 year old 6x4 print you found in a shoebox.
Partly because its much easier… you can always go to more effort, but I find that simply using filmic to bring everything into range and slapping one of these LUTs on gets you nine tenths the way there very quickly indeed.
EDIT: and I always use G’MIC to apply film grain. It’s not perfect, but the TMAX 400 setting is much more pleasing than anything I’ve got out of darktable’s grain module.
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Are the halos around the children intentional, or artifacts?
They were intentional, but looking now again on the picture, I overexaggerated a bit. 
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Gave it a try for fun. Used Darktable 4.5, and mostly sigmoid and rgb primaries
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Which Island is this?
Bass Rock
You can take a tour boat around it or even onto it for the day but, in the later case, I’d probably wear a wide-brimmed hat and boots. There’s a vid on the seabird centre’s website from a wildlife photographer talking about being shat on and beaked by the gannets.
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Here you go, you can rock this. 
Dress is optional…
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How to have fun on a wind-swept island!
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