Alf came to see me about having a proper panoramic photo made of the view from his house. Situated in Ngunguru, Northland, New Zealand, Alf had taken a series of photos and taken the best of them and hand joined them togther. With mismatching colours, large tape joins and generally looking a mess, Alf wanted a nice large clean panorama photo print.

Alf had taken his photos with a film camera, and still had the negatives. Using my wonderful Nikon 9000 slide and negative scanner, I was able to produce large detailed images, and join them together to produce an 820mm wide print. The difference between the before and after prints was night and day. Colours were better and all the marks in the sky had been removed. Alf was thrilled with the end result.

It’s not what you think! Not a domestic dispute ending with the bride being removed. Laurel called in about having a photo of her husband in his army uniform on his own. He had passed away 17 years ago, and Laurel was getting his army medals mounted with a picture of him going with the medals.

Laurel wanted a simple photo where her husband was standing with a plain background behind him. I removed the bridal image, filled in the missing parts of the image and added in a simple graduating background. Laurel was extremely happy with the final result.

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Claire contacted me about getting a quality panorama canvas print done of the top picture seen here, taken in the Bay of Islands. She’s taken a panoramic scene with her camera, with the camera then building the view. Unfortunately it didn’t do a good job. The middle was missing part of the image and the right side had a curvature to the ocean. It didn’t look good, but this was the one Claire liked the most of all the panorama photos she’d taken.

Using the 2nd panorama image shown I was able to use it to fill in the missing portions. After further enhancing, the image at the bottom was produced - quite a tricky job to get right. This was printed and mounted onto a 300mm x 1000mm frame. Claire loved the final look and is giving it to her mother as a birthday present.

Ian came to see me about printing a large panorama of his home town in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. He had a series of photos to join together to make one long panorama print. However, as we discovered there were a few gaps in the photo, so it couldn’t be easily stitched together.

With the gaps there, I was able to hand fill in the missing pieces to give one complete image. The final photo panorama print was 141cm x 25cm in dimensions printed on matt paper.

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Shelley called me about having the woman from this photo removed. The photo was of a couple and their children taken over 10 years ago. Since then the man and his wife had split up. Shelley thought the photo of just the father and 2 kids would make a great gift. The hardest part of doing these sorts of jobs is making the changes look seamless, a person should be able to look at the photo and not notice anything out of the ordinary.

The difficult part of this one was redoing the man’s face where his wife had previously been leaning against. This was rebuilt along with the shirt. The boy was shifted over with shadow detail added. The man’s fingers had to be fixed where he had been holding his wife’s hand. The hand holding the boy on the back was lowered slightly to reflect the boy was closer to his father. Finally the background was added in to fill in where the boy had been previously. All in all a very difficult job to get exactly right, but Shelley thought the final result looked great. It was printed to a 500mm x 600mm size.

Ann saw me about having this photo restored and altered. It had started to suffer from silvering around the edges and was looking a bit tattered. The picture is of her father’s speed boat, used back in the 60s by his family. Ann wanted just a picure of the boat, so asked me to remove the lady and the water skis. The silvering was fixed, the woman/skis removed, background added in place, and the photo turned back to black and white.

Another interesting canvas print added to the canvas prints category this week. Among the canvas prints I’ve been making, this was a little more difficult to do. Bob came to see me about having two photos joined together and printed onto canvas. They were images taken looking from Kauri Mountain, Whangarei, Northland looking out to sea. Bob lives up in the hill where the photo was taken and liked a permanent reminder of the location.

The photos themselves were stained and marked and needed a bit of restoration work. Once the marks were removed the photos were joined together. The more difficult part was removing the outer shadows on each image, resulting from the type of camera used. These were reduced to produce an overall pleasing inage. A black border was used for the sides to preserve the whole image. A photo print was also made along with the canvas one. Bob says they’ll look good hanging in his office and now says he’ll need to find some more images to print.

Brent called in to see me about having a photo enhanced. His mate Wayne had caught his first Marlin back on the 15th of February off the Tutukaka coast. Brent wanted a few basic tweaks done to the photo to make it look better. I got rid of the red-eye in Wayne’s eyes, lightened up his skin tones and brightened up the image. Brent got a 6 x 8 print done to have framed. For the record it weighed 118.2 Kg, caught off the launch “GPS”.

Brent called in a few days with some smoked marlin as a thank you for the work done. Mate, that fish tasted bewdy!

With all the canvas prints being done at the moment, this was an especially nice one to do (all the other ones were nice too!). Lee had these two photos of her nieces she had taken. She liked the one where the two girls were hugging closely to each other.

Unfortunately she’d cut off the bottom of their bodies. So with a bit of photo alteration magic I created this canvas print of the two images combined in the bottom photo. One of the hardest parts was fixing the missing parts of the little girl’s chin - everything must look like an original photo. Lee wanted me to remove the black bag in the background just keeping the greenery.

As there was limited room at the bottom of the image, Lee was happy to have the bottom of the canvas print wrap left plain white. She was thrilled with the final result.

This must be one of the more unique canvas prints I’ve done in a while. Wendy came to me with a 6 x 4 snapshot of this Indian woman looking to have it printed onto canvas. It was taken in 1990 in India. Wendy liked the colours of the image and said it would blend perfectly with the decor of her home.


As it was, the photo would have lost too much of the woman when printed onto and canvas then mounted. So I extended the bottom and sides to retain most of the image. This was printed to fit an A2 size frame. The image came out perfect. Wendy and her husband were so pleased, they even called me when they’d got home, saying how well it looked hanging on the wall.