Photo restoration & enhancements
A PICTURE SAYS A THOUSAND WORDS
You’ve got a bunch of photos that convey what you have and what you do, but the composition, cropping, lighting or colouring just isn’t good enough for your website/brochure/ad/social feed/etc.?
Ever noticed that the moon looks so big and beautiful in published phots, but when you take your own pictures of it, it looks pathetic and puny, and nothing at all like the majestic orb you gaze at in wonder?
Have an awesome photo of yourself with friends or family that unfortunately just has this one jerk in it? Wish you could just erase them from the picture?
Trying to scan an old, precious print, but it’s just not turning out right?
I can fix all that.
IT'S NOT SMOKE & MIRRORS
It’s having the right, pro tools and software; plus a critical eye, a few tricks, talent and know-how. Then, like magic, mundane and mediocre photos can be transformed into just the right image for the purpose at hand. And if your photos are already good quality, then they can be manipulated to serve any purpose you want!
The black and white sketch-like image, beside the above paragraph, is from a photo of me. Incidentally, standing outside the Dragonspace shop on Granville Island, Vancouver.
BELOW, FROM TOP —> DOWN:
My work on this photo was for One Girl Can, a local charity that raises money for girls' education and equality in Africa. It sets the tone on the cover of their funding proposal template for 2020, which I also designed and edited for them.
The woman on the beach is my mom at Sauble Beach, ON, taken in either Spring or Fall. It's an old 35mm slide photo from the 70's, which I scanned and restored.
The sunset with the big, crescent moon is a photo I took at Bonniebrook Beach in Gibsons, BC. I enhanced the original to add drama to the colours and enlarge the moon so that it would look as big and beautiful in the photo as it did in the sky that evening.
The yellow house is one of the photo enhancements I did for Watch Hill Bed & Breakfast. You can see more of my work on their website.
The next image is a photo of me and my dog, Hurley, that I just had some fun with, adding richness and drama to the colours, as well as sprinkling the sky with stars — and pretending my eyes are stars too!
These last two are again from 35mm slides, which I took while travelling in India in the early 90's. It's amazing what can be done with old photos that you might otherwise consider to be too old or damaged to use anymore.
