Thanks, Godtrey, It looks a little closer to Dan's now. I didn't have it on a holder, just flat on the scanner. I'm going to try putting it on the holder, though its a very odd size that I don't remember my scanner having it. I have a couple of medium format B&W's that I found in a book from the late 1800's that I want to try to recover as well.
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 4:30 PM Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gonz, > > Thanks! > > I'm at home now. I grabbed the original you posted into Lightroom Classic, > cropped it, and applied corrections. I noticed that it was left to right > reversed according to the rebate markings, so I flipped it horizontally. The > result is a bit cooler than what I did on the iPhone with Snapseed, possibly > a bit more 'neutral' to what the original print might have looked like … I > captured it in the Develop module so you can see the curves and settings I > used as a hint to future corrections of similar negatives. > > https://www.flickr.com/gp/gdgphoto/E4cPjb > > Better or worse .. I can't say. LOL! > > I do a lot of this, mostly with B&W negatives. The part that's hard with > negative images is that when you invert them in LR, the controls mostly work > inverted and they weren't meant to work that way … it becomes quite hard to > execute fine control. So I often rough out approximate corrections, export to > positive 16-bit TIFF files, import those, and do the finish editing on the > positive images. Makes it a lot easier... > > enjoy! > G > > > On Sep 30, 2021, at 11:09 AM, Gonz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > That looks great, and more natural too. I was having issues with > > color cast and such. > > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 11:28 AM Godfrey DiGiorgi > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Ten seconds with Snapseed using color balance and curves netted this from > >> your thumbnail: https://www.flickr.com/gp/gdgphoto/N777Kf > >> > >> — > >> G > >> > >> > >> > >> — > >> Godfrey DiGiorgi - [email protected] - 408-431-4601 > >>> On Sep 30, 2021, at 8:54 AM, Gonz <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Scanned an old negative. Played around with the usual knobs, but cant > >>> seem to get it to look decent. There is not enough dynamic range here > >>> it seems. I've seen articles somewhere where they make old photos > >>> like this pop out almost to new. How does this work? > >>> > >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/66982297@N02/51535604096/in/dateposted/ > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> --Gonz > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- --Gonz -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
