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Friday, May 26, 2017

LOOK BACK OVER KELBURN NORMAL SCHOOL’S FIRST 100 YEARS!

I am pleased to annouce that Kelburn Normal School's Centennial history book is now available. Jo from Carterworks was responsible for image digitisation, restoration and retouching.

LOOK BACK OVER KELBURN NORMAL SCHOOL’S FIRST 100 YEARS!

Kelburn Normal School - Celebrating 100 Years is a brand new 150+ page, fully bound, hard-cover photographic book charting the school’s first 100 years (1914-2014).

Using previously published historical information, newly sourced personal memories from some of the thousands of pupils who have passed through its doors, and hundreds of photographs from the school and national archives, it’s a fascinating look back at Kelburn Normal School.

The book is chock-full of images of the school and its pupils from the past 100 years. Is your child, parent or great/grandparent within its pages? Many have already found theirs!

Priced at $70, the Kelburn Centenary Committee is selling the book at cost, with no profit for the school. Postage ($7.50 in New Zealand) is additional, or books can be picked up from the school’s office for free.

28th June: A new shipment of books has just arrived so if you have not already ordered now is a good time to place an order at https://www.kns100book.co.nz/

We hope you enjoy looking back over the first 100 years of Kelburn Normal School.

Friday, December 4, 2015

More on photo editing before Photoshop

In a number of posts I have talked about photo editing in pre-photoshop times. A recent article in PetaPixel talks about how editing was done - quoting an early photographer...

http://petapixel.com/2015/12/01/this-1907-article-describes-how-photos-were-faked-a-century-ago/

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Photo manipulation before Photoshop at the Met

A couple of years ago I read a really interesting book called "Faking it: Manipulated photography before photoshop" by Mia Fineman which also was the basis for a Photography exhibition held at the Met. I was reminded about this when I saw a recent post in PetaPixel.com.

"Faking it" describes the art of photographic manipulation before Photoshop and shows that photographic manipulation started very early on in the development of Photography.

Mia talks about seven different types of photo manipulation which are designed to:

1. correct faults in the original photograph and to compensate for the limitations of photography (the example in the article below from PetaPixel falls in this category)
2. create "art" photographs
3. persuade people - for political and ideological reasons
4. amuse and entertain - "novelty" photographs
5. represent images for print
6. create surreal dreamlike images and
7. deliberately change the photographic image (using modern manipulations and composites pre-Photoshop) - she calls - Protoshop....

Its a fascinating read and shows that photographic retouching and manipulation is not new - its a real skill the requires a eye for detail and understanding of proportion, composition and anatomy and patience to re-create reality, its just the tools have changed .....

http://petapixel.com/2015/10/30/this-1902-photo-of-general-grant-is-an-early-example-of-compositing/

For those of us who live down-under the Met has put the entire exhibition online at: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2012/faking-it

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Instagram and vintage - they're fun but they are not the only option for your old slides & vintage photos

Recently I have noticed lots of fashion shoots with a vintage or instagram look. These are great fun. There are now tons of phone apps and photoshop tutorials that show you how to create these effects – which can look great if chosen well and applied to the right image….

I started to wonder where the idea came from to add these effects...............

I suspect it is a result of home scanning of family photos....

Old colour photos and slides naturally produce this vintage or retro instagram effect because the scanning process just copies the chemical damage caused to the film or print over time. While some images look nice, others just don’t work. A lot of people just don’t know how to fix this …..and think their only option is to throw their photos away!

The good news is you have options. You don’t have to put up with this chemical damage once your images are digitised. Any digitised image can be colour corrected and restored to bring out the true colours of the original image . In this photo taken in the early 1980s, the original is on the left, the restored one is on the right….

You can also get rid of other unwanted effects - dust, scratches, over exposure, shadow, and even people as in this example from my website which was a Kodachrome slide from the 1960s.

If you have some images sitting round home that look like this…

then give me a call ........they can be saved

Alternatively you can send your scanned photos directly to me via my file up-loader!

http://www.carterworks.co.nz/cwphotorestorev3_010.htm

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Early colour photography

Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii

One of the most amazing collections of early colour photographs is held by the Library of Congress, known as the Sergey Prokudin -Gorskii collection. These early colour photos were not easily viewable because the images were made up of three separate black and white glass plates which had been shot simultaneously with three separate lenses covered with a different coloured filter- red, green and blue. The colour image was formed when the plates were combined in a specialist viewer. It is believed Gorskii's camera was similar to one developed by Miethe in 1903. Between 1909 and 1915 Gorskii travelled around Russia documenting the country at the time producing both colour and sepia images. He managed to leave the country with around half of his collection that was later bought by the Library of Congress.

In 2000 the Library started scanning these images and many have now been restored, using the process of digichromatography. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html

One of the striking things about these images is the fact they are so real, yet they document a time that we most commonly see in black and white or sepia.