Exposing Images From 50 Year Old Negatives That are in Really Bad Shape by binaryflat

photography · @binaryflat · Dec 7 '18 (edited)

Exposing Images From 50 Year Old Negatives That are in Really Bad Shape

![NegPos.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQ4xYLkBZE6fYNZbyCqchGbeDSBnVYje7ZqWTpzNZFTf2/NegPos.jpg)

I found a packet of negatives in an old abandoned house from the 60s.
![house.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZWuiHh9Ztq39kM3XyTmNg9koTbVT8zJrn3Hc7YNpi3bm/house.jpg)

 They were all stuck together. I probably should have researched the subject first, but I just pulled them apart... Oops! I probably should not have done that! Oh well, can't go back now. 

From what I have found they cannot really be cleaned much. The emulsion, or whatever it is, comes off taking away part of the negative. I may halt with cleaning, and just accept what is there.

Nonetheless, I am getting some interesting images. I am using a scanner to scan in the negatives, and then Preview on the Macintosh, to invert to a positive, and adjust color. The first images are nice, considering I don't know what I am doing. (I feel kind of like a detective, although perhaps a bumbling one.)

I am going to keep playing with these, to see if I can get the photos closer to what they were intended to be.

Later, Cy Brown

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