I often work to improve old pictures to share with the family. It is so easy to lose old photographs! The more copies that many people possess, the greater the probabilities that one copy with survive.
This image is a picture of my son, Brian, from about 1980. He is in the basement of our home in Russell, KY. Since he is wearing a robe and one of his parents had time to take the shot, I am going to suggest that the timing was a weekend morning, probably Sunday since he is already munching on Cheetos. The family ( read Wayne over the objections of his wife (;->} ) had just purchased their first computer, an Apple 2. Brian now uses computers to help determine the structure of proteins. And my wife later obtained a Masters Degree in computer science. The moral of the story is to provide the opportunities and let people decide what to do.
The original picture was taken with slide film using a common family camera. The timing was well before Sherri or I had any real understanding of photography. We were just taking pictures of the family. I first cleaned the film; and just before scanning, I used an air blast to further remove dust. There were still many black specks in the resulting file that I removed individually. The colors had faded in 30 years. I tried to improve the image in PhotoShop CS5 and then used Noisewear software to remove more noise and soften his features. The lighting came from two, high windows behind him.
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