Man you guys are wizards. I haven't a clue as to how to perform this kind of magic.
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 9:02 PM ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > ann > > 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 > >>>>> > >>>>> — > >>>>> 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. > > -- > ann sanfedele photography > https://annsan.smugmug.com > https://www.cafepress.com/+ann-sanfedele+gifts > https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan > https://www.createphotocalendars.com/Shop/annsanfedelecalendarsandbooks > -- > %(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.
