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 >>>> >>>> — >>>> 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. -- %(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.
