A neighbour asked me to scan some old photographs of her mother as part of a collage that she was creating. After whipping them on the scanner and pulling them into Photoshop, they all received a hefty working over to make them presentable again. My learning curve with regard to retouching old damaged photographs was astronomical and yet I am just scratching the surface.
The reason this is all so exciting is because two albums filled with my grandfathers World War II pictures recently fell into my lap. Many of the pictures need lots of love and care, which all takes much precious time. I had been frightened to start, but now am thoroughly inspired.
Take a look at this picture, a postcard from the war. I am fascinated by the amount of detail, clarity, and sharpness in a photograph taken by somebody 70 years ago without any incredible digital interventions. Imagine getting this right in a war zone in the rain with big heavy equipment. And it tells a such an incredible story...
3 comments:
wow wow wow that war photo is a stunner, looks like soldiers and ghosts - seriously.
On a serious note Mark old chap, you need to copyright your photies by adding text and copyright legal notices...
Example
© Copyright 2009
Photographs & text are Copyrighted to ##.com.
Do not use our content elsewhere without prior permission.
Please contact me should you wish to use my content, be that for what ever reason.
Web Feeds
Written consent is required from ##.com should you wish to use our web feeds for content on another website.
The following conditions to web feeds will apply;
* Partial feeds only, photograph only and no text.
* “Originally posted on ##.com” as a title.
* A link to ##.com placed at the bottom of each post to Cape Town South Africa.
+ Adding text to your images...
One day you going to be surfing the net and one of your pics is going to pop up and there will be nothing you can do about it, not even claim credit!1
Later gater
PS need beer + braai
You are so right - must get my act together! Beer + Braai = YEAH!
I do so love photographs... old ones, new ones, I can look at them over and over again!
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