This being a quiet time of year for wedding photography in Edinburgh, I visited my parents a couple of weekends ago. They live in France just outside Geneva and we had a great time walking in snow over a meter in depth.
While I was there I asked to have a look at my parent’s wedding photos. Unfortunately at the time my parent’s did not have a lot of money, so they mostly have proofs and only a few proper photographs. The photographs had stood up quite well, however the proofs were in a really sorry state and starting to mould. I imagine they weren’t meant to last over 30 years!
Anyway I decided to scan the photographs and go about restoring and upgrading them on my computer. A good exercise and I’m sure my parents (well at least my mum) will appreciate it.
Unfortunately the photographer seemed to have made some … interesting framing choices. Most of the photographs were taken in what appears to be the church cloak room and the décor is traditional 70′s. Particularly the carpet and the lights which appear to be coming out of various people’s heads. Apparently it was raining quite hard on the day.
One good thing was that my parent’s couldn’t afford colour – so most of the photographs are fairly decent black and white – although they lack contrast a tad.
Anyway I’ve done the first couple and I thought it would interesting to have them on my website.
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I’m particularly happy with the second one.
Further shots should be along soon.
This is some really good photo-shop work. The pictures now look like they have been zoomed in a couple of feet close, ultimately making the images a lot clearer.
I love how the pictures came alive and gave a dramatic aura when it was rendered with photoshop. This is a great way of restoring old pictures and it gave me an idea to do something like this with my parents ancient pics. Thanks