On 6/13/2012 1:26 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> PESO:
>
> I'm now scanning Kodachromes from Guatemala. While most of my Honduras
> photos are B&W, most of my Guatemala photos are color. Color seems to be a
> part of the people of Guatemala and to remove the color is to remove some
> of their personality.
>
> http://www.pbase.com/image/144026343
Nice subject/composition.
Lots of words under the bridge about color, etc., especially great detail from
AG's experience.
I have a much simpler proposal. It looks like this was shot in bright sun in
the tropics. If so, the image looks quite
underexposed for the subject.
I don't propose this as a finished product, as several of AG's comments still
apply. Still, the overall look seem to me
more like what was probably in front of the camera. Shadow/Highlight, Contrast,
Curves and, yes, I did mess with color
in the skin a little. Not at all intended to look like Kodachrome, but like my
recollection of what things look like in
that light
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Manley/Faviana_and_Reymundo.htm>.
BTW, a slight blue cast in sunlight is in not uncommon in the intense black
hair of many Indians of the Americas.
Perhaps exacerbated by being in the shade. I wouldn't take it as indicative of
an overall color cast problem.
I have not run into particular trouble scanning Kodachrome, but I use a Canon
FS4000 film scanner and VueScan. All but
the last few in this gallery are K64 from 1970, although 2 & 3 were badly
underexposed.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Havasu/>
I don't know what equipment you use, but it should be possible to come a lot
closer right out of the scanner. Like AG, I
know nothing about SilverFast but that it costs a great deal more than VueScan
and VS is very capable.
Simple Solutions Moose
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