This photo describe my deceased grandmother holding me as three-month-old infant.
From left photo is 30-year-old original color photography with faded color over the time today. On the right scanned photo is fixed, modified color fade format to bring this into digitalized format.
The color film photography materials are not permanent and can be destroyed by improper storage and enclosures such as high temperature and high relative humidity, air pollution and dirt. This could become more difficult to take care of this in a long run.
Digital photography is big advantage. Having a permanent storage on digital media is cheaper, and easy to take care of. Once all of the digitalized photos are sealed, burn those into disc storage format such as DVD, make extra back-up copies and save them into different safe locations.
This is my big and long project is to scan all of my family albums to take good care of this to make my mommy and daddy happy. I had my emotion hit hard during my own time while scanning the photos of my ages through the time. At least, sometimes I enjoy, sometimes I do not, if I'm not [me] in the picture.
I am still not finished this project yet. Approximately 1,000 photos more to go. I always can be a patient.
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I am of two minds on this. I recently did the same with a photo I had of my grandparents. Although, it needed fixing more because I took a sh*tty picture. But anyway, I have a thing for the effects of time on photography. I suppose you will have both at this point, but I love the way the color changes. I guess it reminds me of the impermanence of memory.
Posted by Christopher @ Inaudible Nonsense | November 18, 2007 11:08 PM