So I rediscovered my uncle's old stamp collection which I inherited, maintained and expanded as a child. There are many complete and incomplete series from the 30s onwards. I have decided that I will digitize them and then probably upload them to a stock image site.
Here is a first testrun. An incomplete series of German stamps depicting third President of Germany (BundesprƤsident) Gustav Heinemann. Those were printed sometime between 1970 and 1973, which makes them around 50 years old.
To shoot them i used an inverse mounted tripod. The background is just a black t-shirt. To distance the stamps from it and blur it out I used the top of a clear plastic box for chocolates and iluminated them with 2 flashlights.
Setup:
I then imported them into Capture one for additional sharpening, unifying the lighting and adding saturation and contrast. When done I exported them as 16bit .tif to not lose quality. These tiffs I then imported into Affinity where aligned them around the right eye and removed some slight reflections and dust in the background. The uploaded images are slightly downscaled and hav minimally reduced quality. Otherwise the files would be too large.
Here is a first testrun. An incomplete series of German stamps depicting third President of Germany (BundesprƤsident) Gustav Heinemann. Those were printed sometime between 1970 and 1973, which makes them around 50 years old.
To shoot them i used an inverse mounted tripod. The background is just a black t-shirt. To distance the stamps from it and blur it out I used the top of a clear plastic box for chocolates and iluminated them with 2 flashlights.
Setup:
I then imported them into Capture one for additional sharpening, unifying the lighting and adding saturation and contrast. When done I exported them as 16bit .tif to not lose quality. These tiffs I then imported into Affinity where aligned them around the right eye and removed some slight reflections and dust in the background. The uploaded images are slightly downscaled and hav minimally reduced quality. Otherwise the files would be too large.
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