OscPics Services

At OscPics, we are able to work from digital cameras, prints or negatives and can provide a number of services to sort out common (and some not so common) problems. A few of these are shown below.

Light Balancing

Do you have photographs that are not quite what you saw when you took them? Does the beautiful sunset look pale and washed out, but the family group in the foreground appear dark and completely featureless?

This photograph has been selectively lightened, so that the main subject detail can be seen, but the background left alone as much as possible. This is one of the most common problems and is something we specialise in at OscPics.

Red-eye is another really common problem, which is caused by flash bouncing off the retina at the back of the eye. Some cameras have built in red-eye compensation, but this is not always successful and can cause the subjects to blink due to the multiple flashes preceding the main flash.

The following picture shows how this can be sorted out.

Removing Red-eye

Colour / White Balance

Everybody has taken a photograph of something important, only to find it has a colour cast that our eyes can compensate for but our camera can’t. Photographs taken indoors under normal house lights can look orange, under fluorescent lights can look green and a whole range of colours are created outdoors. With the arrival of digital cameras, this can be made even worse if the white balance has been set and then forgotten. The next picture could well end up very surreal!

The previous photograph falls into the latter category, in that I took it in daylight, but with the camera’s white-balance set to tungsten, which compensates for the orange light by colouring the shot blue.This is quite extreme and the colour cast makes it difficult to see the details. This picture has been colour balanced.

The image is still not quite right. The following picture shows a combination of Light and Colour balancing. Notice how the sky is slightly darker, but the rest of the picture has more detail.

Many photographs have distracting backgrounds or details that ruin an otherwise good picture.

This photograph has had the background colour toned down. The bright light across the top of the ear has been removed and a new tag added. The picture has also been cropped slightly, to remove some irrelevant detail.

As a final touch, this picture has also been manipulated to give the impression of an oil painting.

Removing distracting detail

I was really disappointed with this picture when I realised I’d included the car on the drive. With a bit of work, I managed to remove it and greatly improve the photograph. While I was at it, I brought back the detail in the sky

As an alternative, we can also add or exchange details. Do you have a photograph of a wedding group which is perfect, except that one person has closed their eyes? If you have a second shot with the offender’s eyes open, details can be swapped round to make the shot better.

Removing unwanted details

The following picture has been quite badly damaged. Honestly, this picture was torn first, scanned and then repaired – not the other way round!

If you look closely, you can still see a mark in the top of the white border.

Repairing damaged photographs

The following picture has been treated in a completely different way.