Rosemary - circa1969

As I get fewer phone calls for people who want to be photographed by this old man I have been enjoying the technique of going through my film negatives (no layers work for digital pictures!) and scanning two by putting one on top of the other. These scanner negative sandwiches without mayonnaise work best when you use photographs from a same session.

Today I decided to go close to home. I have a large binder with my negatives (colour and b+w) beginning in the early 60s in Argentina and principally then from 1967 onward photographs of the family. I saw these two of Rosemary wearing one of the many lovely Mexican dresses she had. The sandwich may not be all that flattering but it does convey that Rosemary was always full of enthusiasm and a sense of wonder about our life together.

For those who might wonder on the how here are my tips. People constantly tell me that my portraits have great eyes. With my 22-year-old Photoshop 8 I lighten the whites of the eyes. This particular negative has suffered through the years as I took it around 1969. The colour shift is extreme.  To remove the yellow/red cast I added cyan and blue. I also desaturated the colour to make it less intense.

And there it is.