My previous post was a quick image of a Paterson contact printer made of Bakelite used for printing large negatives, which leads me nicely to this post. I restored two very large negatives recently. They were a non-standard size of 6.5 inches by 4.5 inches image below...
Photo restored of Balliol Invicta Football Club 1910-1911 Division one Winners for Southwark and District. Amazing how these photos stand the testament of time and how we can compare the football kits from generation to generation, we can see here how they compare to Clapton Football Club.
Some more challenging photo restorations of 2011, enjoy watching! Through 2011 it was a busy year for photo restorations fact year on year I take on more work. I have put together a few restorations in this visual montage. Starting with the daguerreotype, a cracked...
In order to make a daguerreotype, iodine fumes are used to react with a silver-coated copper plate to form light-sensitive silver iodide. The plate is then exposed to light using a box and lens or camera and the image developed using mercury fumes, before being fixed...
Sometimes for first-time visitors, my photo restoration blog can be quite daunting. I have made a quick reference video of what I can do, so play the video below and in around a minute or two you’ll know what I’m about! Of course it is not all restorations...
The kids went back to school and the new school photos have been taken. Now you have collected your School photos, were your children smiling together? This is a common problem and with Christmas approaching these school portraits make great presents. You have time to...
Hi, all I just thought I would share this one with you. Its a relatively simple photo restore with a retouch and then a re-colour. It went very well. The hand colouring was done on separate layers per colour and then and set to a mixture of colour overlay modes,...
Sometimes your camera may leak light onto the film other than through the shutter, perhaps it was faulty or cracked of broken, dont despair most can be corrected, why not give us a try?
A few days ago I was presented with the task of restoring a very badly damaged old board based photo. It had been kept in a garage and had been subjected to moisture and excessive heat. This has caused the unprotected photo emulsion to the first crack and then flake...
Let’s say a huge chunk of an image is missing, an object or someone’s torso or perhaps a sky. These missing elements can be replaced using other photos taken at a similar time. This is very handy and it can work very well but what if there are no other photos...