hertha

Year: 2017

  • Photo Restoration

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    Photo Restoration

    I’ve spent the last few days reviewing Photo Restoration and Scanning courses on Lynda.com.  I had already partially restored the  Wedding Picture I posted the other day, but I wasn’t satisified with the result.  One of the bigger challenges was to remove glare from the scanning process.  I tried several different scanning procedures to resolve the…

  • Wedding Picture

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    Wedding Picture

    I have several copies of my grandparent’s wedding, but I found an original print.  Quite a difference in quality over the other versions I have. As well, the tone is much more pleasant.   The front row are my great grandparents, left to right: Max Hertha, Anna Hertha, Berta Schellhorn and Heinrich Schellhorn.  Beyond that,…

  • Christmas Dinner

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    Christmas Dinner

  • Scanning

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    Scanning

    As note earlier in my post Remnants, I’ve returned to scanning photographs from the family photo albums.  I came across one of my grandfather’s office when he worked in Sonneberg Germany (about 1927).   Looking more closely at his desktop, after noting the telephone, I saw something else: his pen holder set.  The outline is…

  • Potato Dumplings

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    As I noted earlier (Christmas Break), I’m using food and diet as a culture marker within my documentary work.  Potato dumplings were a big thing in my family.  Dumplings are interesting because they are a part of many diets, including Chinese and Indian, and thus there is an interesting point in common. In any case,…