Wow, I finally finished my first real photo archiving job. I was asked to archive a couple hundred old photos and negatives from the 1950s-1980's. It included old family photos, school photos, birth records, old school paperwork, other family documents and crazy-old negatives! The negatives were "tricky" and took days to complete. They were old 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" (aka: medium format) negatives! My mission was to scan all the items, both in an archival format (TIFF, 50-100MB per file) and display format (JPG - 1-7MB per file), and then organize them all onto DVDs. I got to use a lot of new and old skills, including: photo stitching, multi-format editing, color corrections, creating archival DVDs, DVD packaging, and DVD labeling.
It was both intense and exciting! I'm looking forward to doing more archival-based work (as well as getting photography in now that I'm done with this project!).
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