The Life Of Hans Langer 230 Photos

Hans (Josef Johannes) Langer was born July 12th 1942 in Prague, Czechoslovakia and passed away peacefully March 1st, 2017 in Christchurch, New Zealand. 

This was the slideshow for my Fathers funeral. Only a few pictures I did take in here. This is uploaded to my website as this is a service I can provide for you. And that is to organise and scan all the precious photographs at the ultimate resolution of your family or family member. This can be one of the best things you can do to provide the ultimate memories. 

I use the best flat-bed scanner to do this. Then upload onto a program called Lightroom to cull, crop, colour & exposure balance and reorder. Then in photoshop clean off dust & scratches on the most important and beautiful photographs. Clean off dust & scratches on faces and bodies of the next most important beautiful photographs. 

You can also provide me with digital files from compact cameras & DSLR’s to organise. Can also provide me with mobile images as well.

You can receive anywhere between 1 - 350 images that really tell an amazing story about the persons life. These images are nicely numbered in order as jpgs for you to keep on hard drives and get prints of. There is a big quality difference between you buying a cheap scanner and doing it yourself. The most difficult part though is motivation and productivity in doing this yourself. I do not mind if you are with me the whole time we do this. As its quite fickle and you can help me choose and pull out the photographs and re stick them back in the albums etc.. You can also help me choose which images to clean up more than others..

If you like you can provide me with 10 songs and we make a slide show like the link you see below with Hans’s Youtube I made of him. I think he has around 5 songs and its a 22 minute show. When I told folk at the funeral its 22 minutes long people told me how they thought oh no how boring but after folk were saying its the best slide show they have every seen and made the funeral so interesting. 

I have just finished doing my Mums slide show so Im prepared. As with Hans’s I locked my office door for the week till the the funeral and worked as fast and hard as I could to do it right. I have actually done myself from all my photos since a baby till I started shooting on digital DSLR’s. 

I think this could be an ultimate world wide service. We have had hundreds of hours of photos taken of us and then spend hundreds of hours taking photos ourselves. The fortune spent on camera gear, films and developing and printing, albums,,, and then they disappear. Looking at Albums now has really become extinct. When there is a fire in the house it maybe not the photo album you think of taking out first but your hard drives. 

So this service can be for one photo to scan, clean and email to you at the highest resolution and quality possible = $125. Or a persons whole history that I estimate would take 40 hours of non interrupted dedication full productivity = approx. $5000. Im working on $125 per hour.

I can organise quality prints for only the cost of the lab would charge me for no extra fee. So an 8x10 / 8x12 inch / A4 size would only be $10. 

The whole history includes all your photo albums even the one that you maybe not be in but that includes great great grand parents and people we don’t even know. Like in my fathers his pictures from Germany before he came to NZ. Probably my favourite part. Some old albums pics are so small like 2cm square. My scans from that come up looking awesome!

Here is his Youtube automated slideshow with music and includes his biography. Well worth a quick skim if you are thinking of maybe doing this.