Photo Enhancements Commentary

Restoring Faded Photos

Photo Enhancements — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:06:57 +0000

Sharyn contacted me about having 5 faded photos restored. They were recent prints done in the last 10 years of family ancestors. Printed using the Fuji Pictrix printer, many of these types photos have severely faded within a short period of time.

Sharyn thought they were beyond help, but I was able to bring back nearly all the missing details, adding a sepia colour tone to give back that old aged look.
Link To Restoration Webpage

Troy Packer Canvas Giclee Prints

Photo Enhancements — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:43:32 +0000

Troy Packer emailed me about having these two art works printed onto canvas. Situated in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, Troy is an up and coming artist. One of his works titled “Little Taniwhas” won first place in the Northland 2010 Yellow Art Awards and is now displayed on the Northland telephone directory. He also took out the national title in the same competition.

Troy was looking for a quality printer to do his work and was very happy with the final prints of these two works. More of his work can be seen on his website www.troypacker.co.nz

Restoring Photo - Removal of Red Colour Cast

Photo Enhancements — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:15:34 +0000

Ivan called in with this photo taken in the 70s in need of photo restoration. Typical of many photos taken in the 70s and 80s, the image has gotten a progressively worse red colour cast to it. Fortunately, there was enough remaining colour left to bring most of the colour back without spending a lot of labour on it.

Measuring approx 9 x 12cm the image was enlarged to 8 x 12 inch without losing any detail.
Photo Restoration Main Page

Removing Fungus From Pet Photo

Photo Enhancements — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:51:49 +0000

Paula contacted me about the restoration of this photo. It suffered badly from fungal growth over the photo. Luckily the important portion - the dog’s face was largely intact. All the damage was removed, with a dark background used to hide most of the damage. Usually photos this bad are beyond help, but in this case Paula was very happy with the end result.

Photo Panorama Print Urupukapuka Island

Photo Enhancements — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:34:59 +0000

Neil contacted me about making a panorama photo print for him. Using his small Canon IXUS compact camera he’d taken this photo on Ururupukaka Island in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. The photo printed to 900mm x 300mm and looked clear and sharp.

Montage Photo Put Onto Canvas

Photo Enhancements — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:48:50 +0000

Michelle was recommended to come and see me about printing photos onto canvas. She’d had this wonderful photo montage prepared by a graphic designer whom then got Michelle to see me. It’s a series of pictures taken while on vacation in Cyprus and Serbia. We decided to slightly enlarge the canvas so it had a white border surrounding it.

Measuring 460mm x 365mm Michelle took advantage of my winter promotion special, and got it all done for an excellent price. The print came out looking wonderful and Michelle was thrilled with the result.

Canvas Printing Main Page

Canvas Print - Black & White Montage Omapere

Photo Enhancements — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:57:34 +0000

Paula came to see me about having four photos put onto canvas. They were photos taken of where she grew up on the Northland west coast at Omapere.

We disussed what sort of layout would look best, ending up with this simple but effective vertical canvas, with the photos printed in black and white. It measured 620mm x 250mm size and will be going overseas to her cousin as a gift. The photos consist of the Omapare destination, view from their bach, the bach itself and the family ancestral burial ground and home mountain behind.

Canvas Printing Main Website

Hockey Photo Update from Whangarei

Photo Enhancements — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:58:32 +0000

Hockey photo update from Whangarei, Northland. On Saturday prem teams Hikurangi and Kamo played off, while on Sunday Northland U18 men played a series of matches, this one being against Counties.

Hockey Photo Link

Black and White Landscape Prints

Photo Enhancements — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:14:33 +0000

John Searing, creator of sand hopper gallery, contacted me about having a series of black and white landscape photo prints made. He’d had issues with previous printers not being able to get the tonal range right on his images. Also getting true neutral black and white photo prints had been a problem.

With the HP Z3100 printer, making his prints was easy to. John’s work can been seen at his website sand hopper gallery

Scans of Paintings

Photo Enhancements — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:35:45 +0000

Fiona Goulding contacted me regarding having her artworks scanned for archival and future reproduction. Fiona is a visual artist with four oil paintings she wanted high quality scans made of. Above are 2 of the 4 she had me do. Fiona was very happy with the final copies made.

If you’re interested in purchasing any of her paintings Fiona can be contacted at fiona.goulding@actrix.co.nz