Well I did a "print screen' of Godder's latest and took it a bit
further based solely on what I remember of popular interior decoration
back in the day
around the time I would guess this photo was taken.. "eggshell" or
"off-white" would likely have been the wall color as opposed to gray...
I just alternated adding red and green in little bits at a time in
Photoshop elements to go for the wall color think it might have been.
https://annsan.smugmug.com/Other/Stuff-to-show-PDML-for-various/n-vWHWf/i-9D55Tj7/A
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On 9/30/2021 9:01 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
How you scanned it isn't particularly significant, although a holder will
generally make the negative easier to handle and flatter if it's a good holder
for the format.
I played with the image a little further … Color balance and skin tones are
always so fussy! Bumping up the color temperature to +31 and the tint to +22
gives more pleasing skin tones albeit at the expense of some increased magenta
and violet overtones in the shadows. Not unpleasantly much, though: I'd go with
this for the better skin tones, and then use the radial filter tool to
desaturate and neutralize the corners and edges … thus:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/gdgphoto/xtQ432
Doing this kind of image processing is fun. :)
G
On Sep 30, 2021, at 2:53 PM, Gonz <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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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/
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