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Thursday, May 5, 2011

What To Do With Old Landscape Photography Negatives

If you are one of those people with boxes of old negatives in your basement or hall closet, you are not alone. Photography has been a popular hobby with people ever since the invention of the first camera. One problem that professional and amateur photographers alike have always faced is deciding the proper way to preserve their art once it has been shot and developed.


The good news is that if you are one of those people with boxes of old negatives and pictures old enough to be in the historical archives, many companies offer 35mm slide scanning services, and digital photo restoration. Scanning a negative not only allows for the development of the image, but also enhanced digital clarity, even for the oldest negatives. Photo restoration can also repair sun damage and scratches.

While there are many companies that offer these services, here are some things that you should look for when choosing a photo restoration and slide scanning service: High resolution is very important so having 3000 dpi slide scanning services for 35mm slides, as well as 110,120,126,127, and 200 format slides is optimal. Also having state of the art slide scanners and scanning equipment is crucial.

Industry standard automated dust and scratch removal, utilizing programs such as Kodak Digital ICE. The slide scanning services that you choose should include a manual color rotation, cropping, red eye removal, rotation, and additional dust and scratch removal as points of service. Quality slide scanning image processing performed by qualified technicians who employ a trusted photo restoration program, such as Adobe Photoshop.

Additional photo scanning services, preferably 600 dpi photo scanning services for both priceless, antique photos, as well as newspaper clippings, postcards, and other medium is important. An experienced photo scanning and slide scanning, photo restoration service should also be able to offer its customers black and white slide and black and white negative scanning. The option to view and choose prints online, preferably with the understanding that you will pay for only the prints that you select.

Competitively priced services. Some companies outsource work to other countries in order to save their customers money and time, while others choose instead to do work in house, and are usually more expensive. Landscape photography involves a section or portion of scenery seen from a single viewpoint as the subject of the image.

Typically, people and animals are not shown in a landscape portrait, unless they are included in the composition to illustrate scale. Some photographers disagree as to whether man made structures, the coast, and cities should be included in a landscape, since a landscape is designed to showcase natural features.

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