Saturday, July 14, 2012

Refurbishing a Family Photo

This photo hangs in my grandmother Wanda's guest room with the missing piece taped in. Yesterday, I took the liberty of sprucing it up for her.  It took several hours, but the progress shows!

 Of course, all of these images have been greatly reduced for showing on this blog, but you can still click on the image and zoom in.  The black and white photo has the names of each person listed along the bottom, right on the image.  I did my best to decipher Bertha's handwriting on the back on the photo to record the names.

If you are family and would like a copy of these images, leave a comment and I'll get you the full-sized version! I can send the BW version with or without the text.

Original Photo
Note: Part of image is torn out.
Image is faded and has significant water damage.
Water spots are on each face.

Refurbished Photo
Note: Fading from side-to-side is balanced.
Water spots are removed from faces.
Major water damage removed from context.
Contrast and vitality repaired.

Refurbished in Black and White
Note:  The sepia image lost some tonal integrity to damages.
This BW image removes all traces of lost color integrity.
Names are included along the bottom of the image.


Label on Back
Note:  Written by Bertha, the small child in white on the left.

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