My parents' wedding, August 28, 1971.
My mom sent me this photo to fix up which I was happy to do--it was simple and only took about 15 minutes--just the crease at the top, a bit of discoloration and few splotches really.
More restoration: Mommy Restored & Kleiner Alex
Once we move back to The Land of Milk and Honey I plan to have my own photography business (portraiture) and I think photo restoration, in addition to stock photography, would be a nice addition. Why? Because unless you can time travel, photo memories are all you’ve got and they’re probably faded, yellowed, and on non-archival photo paper, which means they will continue to age. That's were I come in. Give me your photo, I'll scan it and spruce it up and even make prints on my fancy photo printer which uses archival quality inks and paper--these images should last 300 years, or so they say.
Word of warning: If you are printing your digital images and then dumping the files you are going to be sorry. The paper most prints are made on is good for about 7 years , after that you're going to get fading and discoloration. Be sure to save all of your images on a CD, whether you think you'll print them or not. Dad, remember this please. :)
1 comment:
Affable,
Indeed you are correct and the CD makers are really marketing to people's fears on this. For instance you can buy archival gold CDs which apparently last 200 years. I bought a particular brand of these thinking I needed to jump on that bandwagon and the gold peeled off and I lost 3 discs with original RAW images on them, probably close to 300 images.
The trick to CDs lifetime is keeping them out of light. Some purists I know even keep them in the fridge.
I always back up onto 2 CDs using a different 'non-peeling' archival gold cd, I keep one disc at home and the other in a remote location, back up on my external drive, and lastly I upload jpeg versions of my RAW files to shutterfly as a last resort :)
Tiring stuff but worth it :)
Thanks for reading,
Christina
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