Very badly faded photo, help needed!

[kizmiaz]

Prue!!!!!!
        Having been brought up on Chemicals and the dark arts, I would only recomend a return to those methods to someone I wanted to teach a very severe lesson to.
                                                 Screaming Denn

Really?

I used to love processing black and white photos the old fashioned way. The smell of the chemicals, trying to get the film out of its holder and onto the spool in the pitch black, the timer clicking away as you washed the sheets in the trays, waiting for that first glimpse of the image...

If I had the time, money and space, I'd buy myself all the equipment and build a darkroom. I just loved the sensation of getting an image through ones own hard work. Much more satisfying than "snap, download, edit" of a digital camera.

But not for normal snaps obviously, just for those occasional "arty" ones! It would be torture for everyday snaps.

Glen

[dennford]

Glen that was a bit of a dig!
       I was a bit of a Hypo-chondriac, but what I really want to point out is that for someone just starting out, with no prior knowledge. Todays digital media is so much easier, and you dont need to grapple with chemicals that can and have caused ill health.
       I would still help and encourage anyone who after learning the basics of modern photography (image manipulation) decided that they would wish to learn about how it was done not too many years ago.
                                                    Denn

[kizmiaz]

...what I really want to point out is that for someone just starting out, with no prior knowledge. Todays digital media is so much easier, and you dont need to grapple with chemicals that can and have caused ill health.

Absolutely Denn, couldn't agree more. Digital is ideal for a beginner.

Also, no waiting for the pictures to be developed, no wasted shots with the finger over the lens (don't do that sort of thing myself, obviously!! Yeah, right!) and an awful lot cheaper.

"Real" photo production will soon be a thing of the past, and those few who still remember how it was done will become like the wheelwrights, coopers, hurdle-makers and other varied traditional tradesmen, much in demand and highly prized for their "arcane" knowledge

Glen 

[PrueM]

Now you blokes, don't go putting Mrs Lizzy off, there's still fun to be had dabbling in the Dark Arts!!!! 

Just to prove the point, tomorrow I'm teaching my colleagues how to make photogenic drawings/salted paper prints, with a view to learning how early printed out photos were made, and how and why they deteriorate. 

The best thing about them is that there's no developer for the "hypo"-chondriacs amongst us (Denn!!  )

Agreed though, the old darkroom photography is not for snapshots.  What a pain in the proverbial....thank god for digital 

Prue