Hello!

The main reason for my making this blog is for me to share some of the photos that I have restored. I genuinely enjoy doing it, even if some of the photos might take a while to fix up.

Most photos that I have on here are my own, but a few I have done have been asked by other people to fix up and color.

Please feel free to email me at LangstonPhotoRestoration@yahoo.com if you would like me to restore some photos for you! I do it for free for now. Don't be shy! You'll be doing me the favor, I find this to be fun.

I hope you enjoy looking at some of my work. To me, taking an old photograph and fixing the scratches, removing to dust and even adding color is like bringing that moment in time back to life again. (It's especially fun to listen to Frank Sinatra and other musicians that the person or people in the photograph might have listened to back then!)

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Contrast and Great Uncles

Here is a nice example of a photo I added color too! I didn't change much about his jacket, I thought it looked nice that color. Photos like this professional one of my great uncle (I'm fairly sure this was taken in the 1950's, there was no date on the back though) are some of the easiest for me to add color to. They have the simple background, and excellent lighting. Sometimes when the contrast (how dark the darks are and how light the lights are) in the photograph isn't very good, it makes it very difficult to add color.
For example, a photo with very low contrast would be something like (this)
While a photo with very high contrast would be something like (this).
So anything somewhere around the middle is very easy to add color to, like this photo of my great uncle Alexander (Although his tie was a pain in the butt)!

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