Colouring an old wedding photo . A few days ago Barrie Warby contacted me with a plea to help him fix up his mother’s photo. Unfortunately, it was stuck to the glass and heavily faded. He posted me his prized photo, carefully wrapped, still in the frame, glass...
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...
. Often It is asked if it is possible to perform an old rolled photo restoration. It is only a digital copy of your original that I restore, not the physical image itself. Actually conserving the surface of the picture is something best left to photo conservators, who...