Kelley Bromley

Ok, so in other posts I have mentioned that I found some old photos that I had scanned years ago when my screen resolution was 800×600 and I thought 100dpi and a 300×400 picture was a good idea. The original scanning session, via parallel port, took forever, and it took me the majority of one summer to scan all the photos. Now, I thought these photos were left back in Newfoundland, but I was going through what I thought was my “photo box” and it turned out not to be filled with prints, but with ALL the original negatives! Now I had forgotten that I had packed these when moving from Newfoundland, as the majority of the packing happened in the wee hours of the morning, and in fact up to the morning the day the movers were scheduled to take our stuff. Anywho, when Lionel and I got to Vancouver we bought a flatbed scanner with a negative attachment that can scan 35mm film at 1200dpi and we tried it and they’re AWESOME! Of course most of the pictures were taken with a $20 Regal camera and are dark and horrid, but nothing a little photoshop won’t fix. I’m so happy! So, over the next few weeks I will work on the photos and have some nostalgic photos up from junior high and high school! (more…)

So Lionel and I upgraded to the Nikon D80 camera a few weeks ago with Linda and Charles’ help and we’ve really been enjoying it! I have some pictures of my greenhouse assembly to post, along with a big backlog of pictures from the Toshiba, but in the meantime I thought I would share these cool bug shots. THE CAMERA IS INSANE!!! If you look at the large version of the picture you can actually see the little hairs on it’s body!!

I’m not sure what kind of beetle this is but we see him or her every now and then on our patio, it sticks around for a few days, and then goes away for another month or two. Despite the long seven-story climb it never comes inside our house even though we leave the patio door open all the time. It likes to stay by the patio glass. When I saw it again I just had to take a picture! My attempts at documenting it with the Toshiba have been laughable and in no way as cool as these! (more…)

I’ve finally added some old pictures I scanned while I was still in Newfoundland. I’ve adjusted all of them, but I just wanted to point out some examples below.

Before	After	Description
		Repaired tears and folds. Could have done better, but I’m pleased with the results.
		Adjusted colour and levels, removed mold and burns, corrected for camera motion blur.
		Adjusted colour, levels, and smart sharpened.
		Repaired several folds, cloned over holes. Adjusted color and levels. Sharpened.
		Gradient color adjustment for nonuniform colour deterioration. Sharpened.
		Adjusted color and levels. Sharpened.
		Repaired fold, adjusted levels, sharpened.
		Gradient levels adjustment for nonuniform darkening. Sharpened.

To see these and other photos from the past visit my Oldies album by clicking the photo to your left. Lionel did a great job on Sam and Steve’s photos where they’re wearing sweaters and just graduated from Kindergarten because they were printed on textured paper and he removed most of the texture using a Fourier transform. You can see these by going to Sam or Steve’s album within Oldies. (more…)