Oh, yes, immensely better. Most of the grain is gone and the color
looks natural except for perhaps a bit too blue in the foliage. But
maybe that's what it looks like.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/14/2012 11:40 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I finally downloaded Silverfast's HDR processing software and tried using
> that to process the same scan:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/144041637
>
> Is that better?
>
> Tina
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Ken Norton<ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> Color negatives scan fine:
>>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/143476719
>>
>> Ah! Fuji Press 800 is one of God's gifts to photographers. It's the
>> Tri-X of the color film world.
>>
>>
>>> And Astia, too: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/143565322
>>
>> This one looks a little harsh to me too. The skin tones stayed neutral
>> (as I'd expect from Astia, whereas Velvia would have turned her into
>> the Great Pumpkin), but the contrast is too harsh. I have this desire
>> to dig into those shadows and lift them up a full stop.
>>
>> The Fuji Press 800 picture is very close to what I really would like
>> to see from the slide scans. It's a touch flat, but far more
>> publishable. The slide scans, on the other hand, would be terribly
>> hard to work with in offset printing. Dot gain will completely block
>> these images up.
>>
>> I'm about a hundred miles away from my file cabinet with all my slides
>> at the moment. Won't be able to do any test scanning until the
>> weekend. But I will experiment with some Kodachromes to see if I can
>> recreate the look which you have in your scans. If I can duplicate the
>> look, then i can figure out how to correct it.
>>
>> I know Moose is chomping at the bit to Moosify your pictures, but I
>> don't think we're really any where near that point yet. We've got an
>> underlying issue to figure out first.
>>
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