Y! A! N! K! E! E! S!
Here come the Yankees!!
Let's get behind and cheer the Yankees!!!
The legendary New York Yankees: Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig, and Derek Jeter To get a baseball cap, a bat, or a jersey signed by one of those New York Yankees players would be a dream come true for many baseball fans and sports memorabilia collectors. To get a custom poster-size photograph of the 1963 New York Yankees team signed by all of the players as a token of appreciation for his commitment, dedication, and hard work was probably the greatest birthday present that a boy may have received in his lifetime.
Being a batboy is not all fun and games and hanging around with your childhood heroes. In addition to keeping up with their schoolwork and house chores, the batboys are expected to arrive several hours before the beginning of a game to get the field ready and set up the equipment in the dugout. After practice or a game, it’s clean, clean, clean, and clean some more, not to mention taking care of dirty shoes, sweaty uniforms, and other parts of athletic attire. But for most of those who did get to be part of the legendary team, it was all worth it, and for the rest of their lives, they had great stories to tell and memories to share.
In such cases, a digital restoration and retouching become the only options for bringing back the vibrancy of the original colors, the sharpness of images, and the clarity of the inscriptions. Typically, the process involves making a high-resolution scan of a photograph to ensure capturing even the smallest detail, down to the stitching on a baseball and pinstripes on the team’s jerseys. Then the digital image is color corrected to bring back the original tones. And scratches, rips, or tears are carefully retouched from the photograph while making sure that the important parts of the photo remain true to their original appearances.
Once the client and the restoration artist are both satisfied with the quality and appearance of the restored image, it is ready for printing. To assure accurate color reproduction and to guarantee that the restored photographs will not change colors or fade away, Sebastian Wintermute uses only archival fine art papers and a professional multi-color printing process for all personally important and historically valuable photographs and document reproductions.