I Scan Photos Blog
Old Negatives: Cleaning up Those Dirty Pictures
Throughout 2020, I have been scanning the thousands of B&W negatives that I have taken ever since I go into photography back in the mid-60s. All of them have been well organized, making it easy to see when and where they were taken, but not all are in the best of...
COVID-19 Protocols For Our Studio
To make your interactions with us safe, we have set COVID-19 protocols for our studio. As I write this in December of 2020, the state of California is seeing a new wave of the virus. Our studio hours are now by appointment only and we will be wearing a...
Scanning: Filming The Marlboro Man Commercial
Filming of a Marlboro Commercials Here is another photo that a customer brought into the studio to have scanned, a digital file, and prints made. The photo shows a film crew in the late 60s shooting a Marlboro man Cigarette commercial on the customer's ranch here...
Memories of my Old Fiat
My 1972 Fiat 128 In Owens Valley in 1978 I have been copying off some of my own photos this year ran across photos of an old car of mine. A 1972 Fiat 128. A four-door, underpowered car that was good for only about 75,000 before it was time to get rid of it. The Fiat...
Roy Rogers in Death Valley
Customers often bringing in some interesting photos to be scanned and restored. Here is one of the famous movie star Roy Rogers, with others in Death Valley in about 1982. This was a fun one for me because I didn't often hear my first name growing up. Having a famous...
Recent Restorations #2 James Dean Lookalike
This photo restoration was a real challenge. As you can see the original photo was not in good shape. Someone had placed clear tape over the photo, most likely to put the photo into an album. Over the years it has attracted dirt and yellowed. But I was quite proud of...
Recent Restorations Vol 1
I thought I would spend this week posting a few recent restorations we have done in our studio. As we get into the holiday season, and I think especially here in 2020, a year that has been unique, to say the least, many of us have seen the importance of family and...
A Q&A On Our Scanning Services
We are doing more and more scanning jobs in the studio, and we often get questions as to our services, what we offer and what we can do. Thus, this blog post. Q: I have hundreds of old negatives and slides that my dad took when we were kids. Can you scan them and make...
Scanning Black and White Negatives
I began my journey as a photographer back when I was just 13 years old, in the darkroom developing and printing B&W film. It was a birthday gift of a little darkroom kit. I have had a love affair with B&W ever since. Now I have the task of scanning the...
Stuck At Home? Time To Back Up Those Photos
I am writing this in March of 2020, right at the beginning of the outbreak, in the US, of the Coronavirus. The world is being turned on end. Gatherings have been canceled, schools closed, people are beginning to try and figure out what is going to happen with their...