Bikie Days

Original photo

Most recently I have been restoring a couple of biking photos taken in Auckland in the 1960s. These photos were scanned and emailed to me and featured an irregular texture that showed up in the scanning process.  After a couple of additional scans I was able to restore the faded colour, back to the original black and white as well as remove the texture. Below is the end result.

Restored photo

Kelburn Normal School Photos scanned

Over the last few weeks I have been scanning a large number old photos from our local school in Kelburn, Wellington dating from the early 1900s through to the pre-digital present. The school will celebrate its centenary in 2014 and over the next wee while I will be restoring those in need of attention. As you can image some of the photos need some restorative work.  I will feature some of the before and after restorations on this site

My website is live

Today I launched my Carterworks website http://www.carterworks.co.nz.

Welcome

Hi

Welcome to my first blog.  Over the last few months I have been busy putting together a new website for Carterworks in betweeen art assignments and actual photographic restoration projects.

My most recent photographic project was to restore a damaged photo of an old Wellington College boy taken in the early 1900s.   His family were able to scan the photo at a high resolution and from this I was able to rebuild one foot which had been lost in the original photo and remove foxing and other signs of time.  I then produced both sepia and black and white copies of the photo at original and A4 size.  The original photo despite its damage still had lots of wonderful detail - you could really see the different textures of the materials - the silk flag, the persian carpet his shiny leather boots.  His family were delighted with the result and the college now holds the restored photo in its archives