Rosalie Peters

Another HM Model From The Mid 1960's With The Natural Look on Show!

How Much Editing Do I Do?

Someone asked the question on how much I edit the images published on here, which doesn't have a straightforward answer!  It depends! It depends on the size and quality of the original, but my view is that I only restore or enhance, but not alter.  Most of the time it's restoring colour, removing blemishes and scratches and tweaking highlights and contrast and re-sizing if they are large files.  Overall, nothing that drastically alters the context of the original.

I'll use another June Palmer shot as an example.

The original image scanned directly from a 120 film negative

 My Edit - A slight crop of the image, colours enhanced and restored & a few scratches removed and that is it!

The purists will say don't mess with the original, but I prefer the colours in my edit!   

The image is another JP original from John W of June as Joanna Kent in strawberry blonde wig on the beach and I love it!  I think it's the pose and June's bum!

June Palmer’s Last Professionally Posed Picture (Original)

I must have thousands of June Palmer photo's, mostly from the 1950's, 60's and 1970's, from early Spick & Span shots to Harrison Marks and then Arthur Howell.  If I thought about it really and had the time I should have done a site dedicated just to June! Anyway, what are not so common are shots of June later in her career in the 1980's before she gave up modelling.  Thankfully there are some around and below is one such little gem!

The Last Professionally Posed Picture of June Palmer.

This was the last image on the last film shot on 23rd November, 1987 at a studio in Chelmsford at about 1 pm.  How do I know this? Well it was taken by John W, who has supplied original June content for this site in the past and he actually took the shot himself!

John started photographing June at Arthur Howell's Strobe Studios in south London, which were advertised in the Amateur Photographer. These were group sessions, which cost £5 at the time. He also hired June for private sessions, which cost £40 for 2 hours, and continued to hire her at various times after Strobe closed, sometimes at Arthur's house and sometimes at a studio in Chelmsford.

John took the last shot above in Chelmsford and afterwards June told him she was going on holiday to the Bahamas and said she would look forward to showing him her all-over tan when she got back.  She later wrote to him and said she was getting married again and was giving up modelling.

So the above became the last professionally shot photo of June Palmer ... Wow!

I can't thank John enough for sharing this shot with me, along with his own person insight into his professional relationship with June Palmer.  As a big JP fan finding things like this are very exciting and even more so to know the background behind it.



Note: This is an original image and subject to this copyright notice, but can be shared as long as the image remains unaltered and this website is acknowledged as the source.