I worked hard this weekend putting my plan into action on the photo processing. I had my wife Gloria give me one of her old albums as at test. There were 375 photo’s in that beast!
In the previous post I mentioned a sideline business in which some people may be interested. That is developing electronic and printed book photo albums. This looks like a can do project. I was able to do great scans from the printed photo’s both B&W and color. Of course there are only good as the original material.
The consumer grade snapshot is not usually a work of art. The photos are usually not sharp and there is color shift with both the B&W and color. I had to decide what would be the most authentic. I decided not to alter the aged tones in the B&W. I could make them look better than new, but then they loose the old time flavor.
There is an example here in this post. I put all the remainder in my photo web page that I am not linking from here. It isn’t private but pretty boring stuff to non family.
I haven’t figured a sell price yet. There has to be a market. I was just thinking about all the people who have lost photo collections to fire, flood and storm. The technical generation is already doing digital photography, but the old stuff like I show here is in great danger. Just plain age is getting to it.
Dan’l