Lynn brought in this Polaroid of her rental property. She said she couldn’t
polaroid photo that we scanned
find anything on our website about working with Polaroid prints. We were glad that she brought in her photo because we certain do work with Polaroid photos and we can do some restoration work on them as well. This was Lynn’s only photo of the property and she needed to show some evidence of the fence that was once in her yard.
restored polaroid photo
It was unfortunate that the photo had been left in direct sunlight and had faded. We scanned in her Polaroid and did some quick restoration and color adjustment and then printed out a larger print for her to use as evidence in a court case. Today’s message is that we do work with Polaroid prints as well as any other type of print, document, map, slide, negative or most anything else you can think of.
Most of us appreciate the ease of our point and shoot camera. We don’t really want to mess with lenses and filters and adjusting focus. Understanding a bit about speed, aperture and ISO may help you take your photo taking to the next level.
from camera with incorrect setting
All three of these settings help to determine the exposure on your camera whether digital or film. The shutter is a cover that allows light to enter into your camera. When you hit the button to take a photo it causes the shutter to open and close for a brief period of time. The amount of time that it is set for or shutter speed determines how long the film or sensor is exposed to light. The setting for the shutter is measured in parts of a second.
Aperture is the size of the opening inside your lens through which all light must pass before it reaches the shutter. Aperture size is expressed as “f-stop”. The smaller the f-stop, the larger the aperture or opening is.
Shutter speed and aperture control how much light gets to the sensor or film. Shutter speed also controls time. A very fast shutter speed will capture the briefest of moments on your photo like people who are in motion. A slow shutter speed will give you a better photo if your subject isn’t moving.
with optimized lighting and contrast
The aperture also controls how much of a photograph is in focus. A very small aperture opening will keep everything in the frame in focus. While a very large aperture opening (a small f-stop) will only focus at one distance.
Since both shutter speed and aperture affect the amount of light let in when you adjust one you need to adjust the other. If you widen the aperture, letting in more light, you also need to shorten the shutter speed to compensate. The good news for those of us point and shoot photographers is that our cameras make the adjustments for us.
The final setting we are going over is ISO sensitivity. ISO sensitivity also affects noise or graininess. The higher the ISO, the grainier/noisier the image will be. But higher ISO also allows you to shoot with faster shutter speeds in low light. For most amateur photographers keeping ISO lower is preferred.
fond memories of the cows
A recent client asked us to create a one of the kind mug for him to give to his father for a gift. Taking 2 photos of his dad pulling a cow out of the mud hole that it was stuck in and adding the requested text. The story behind the sentiment is that his father has recently sold his herd and this image will remind him of difficult times with the cows.
memories trapped on floppies and zip disks
Another type of media that we can convert for you is floppy disks and zip disks. Though they are rather obscure today we can certainly do this digital transfer as well. The files that clients typically want captured from these disks are photo files. Recent client Eva brought in a record breaking 60 floppy disks and not so record breaking 4 zip disks. From these we captured 239 photos. She wants to use these long lost images to create several versions of a photobook about her late husband. Today we printed out some sheets with a small version of each image arranged with 16/page and with dates and titles so that she could work on arranging them at home.
Leave A Legacy on TV I was sharing about all of what we do at Leave A Legacy on the Tom Martino Show on Fox 31. I offered a Valentine’s Day special for your wedding and anniversary films, video, photos and slides.
glass stereo slide
This was a new one for me. Recently a client brought in about 5 of these glass stereo slides. I’ve seen and scanned both glass and stereo slides but not both rolled into one. We scanned in one of the two images and saved it as a jpg file for him on a CD.
The slide consists of two images (this is the stereo part) that are shot from a slightly different position. When put into a stereo viewer you looked through it and saw a 3D image of your photo. So the people are all three dimensional…kind of like what is coming out now…all of those 3D cameras! Anyway the two images are sandwiched between two pieces of clear glass and then it was held together by some thin metal. One slide is actually quite heavy for how large it is.
So when you see those new 3D cameras hit the store know that they are nothing new but rather something that great grandpa once owned and cast away for cameras that make single two dimensional images!
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