Photo Editing and Restoration

Photograph restoration

The picture below is of a mother and her daughter. Taken in 1931.

The original paper print had suffered some quite severe damage over the years and unfortunately was long gone, but there was a copy negative of the original print.

I printed the image onto black and white paper from the negative using an enlarger in the darkroom.

This print was then digitally restored, using professional editing tools, not AI!

There is a fine line between removing the damage without making the image appear too ‘new’.

You can see the before and after using the slider on the image below.

Photo editing

Very often there are no second chances in photography; you have to run with what you’ve got.

The picture below was from a kitchen interior shoot. The so-called pro photographer returned from the shoot with some less than ideal pictures; poorly exposed, perspective issues, levelling, you name it, it was there. We couldn’t go back and re-shoot, but at least I was able to tidy things up to produce some (only just) usable images.