Flatbed Scans of Old Negatives

Title: Graduating Twins with Brother and Mother.

I am spending a good deal of my time this summer going through and organizing boxes and boxes of photographs and ephemera I have produced and collected over the last thirty years. I have come across a box of black and white negatives I produced in the early 1970s and am experimenting with scanning these negatives on a flatbed scanner.

Title: Abandoned Family Pickup.

Employing Photoshop, I've been making adjustments to render a decent print. I discovered with my first few negatives that the process of scanning tends to create artifacts that were not in the original photographs. Surface scratches, dust and blemishes become an intrinisic part of the image.

Title: Monument To The Domestic Life

The images above are representational of the group. Look at all the images in my photo set "Negatives" at Flickr.