Diplomacy
A client recently brought me an interesting assignment. Due to a recent fire, they had lost a ton of their treasured possessions, but one item that survived was a framed diploma from an ancestor of theirs, that was beautifully framed and miraculously preserved. They had inquired about getting it scanned, but due to its delicate nature it could not come out of its frame. The lab they contacted turned the job away, and so it came to me.
For pieces of framed art or historical documents that are too sensitive or fragile to come out from behind the glass, photographing them is the best way to reproduce them. This assignment would require quite a bit of technical precision, and patience. Quite a bit different from event or wedding photography.
In the end, with careful lighting, precise framing, and quite a bit of patience, the document was digitally captured, and beautifully printed in a fantastic local lab with archival inks on professional paper.
The final image turned out like this:
