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04-19-2021, 11:36 AM   #22546
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I do believe that it is looking for a title? A time and place for deep thinking/soul searching, REFLECTING!

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Out of interest, what was your process to get the colours right this time? I’ve seen the tutorial you wrote for Emulsive a while back - is your colour neg workflow the same today?

To my eye the colour balance here looks spot on.
Emulsive??

My color negative scanning/editing is basically the same as what I wrote in the tutorial that is on my website. After nearly 7 years of playing around with the method I have a much better understanding of what I am looking for color-wise, and then how to achieve it using only Levels and Curves. The only real change is that I more often adjust the color curves of individual (Red, Green, or Blue) color channels. If I have say, a reddish cast to highlights but a greenish cast to shadows, I can fix that using a subtle S curve with the green channel. This will add green to the highlights and remove green from the shadows.
There are some minor changes to my scanning method but they're really not very big.

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Although I recently acquired a really nice Zeiss Contax IIIa and I forced myself to go out around the neighborhood and shoot half a roll in it. Took me a week to recover, but I might have a few new shots to share here.
So the roll of film I chose for testing my recently acquired Contax IIIa ended being an expired roll of Kodak MAX 400 that really hadn't aged well.
It did it's job though and showed that the frame spacing was good and the shutter works well (even exposure across the frame) at all the speeds I tried.

This is one of the more decent frames from the roll ...




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Emulsive??

My color negative scanning/editing is basically the same as what I wrote in the tutorial that is on my website. After nearly 7 years of playing around with the method I have a much better understanding of what I am looking for color-wise, and then how to achieve it using only Levels and Curves. The only real change is that I more often adjust the color curves of individual (Red, Green, or Blue) color channels. If I have say, a reddish cast to highlights but a greenish cast to shadows, I can fix that using a subtle S curve with the green channel. This will add green to the highlights and remove green from the shadows.
There are some minor changes to my scanning method but they're really not very big.
Don't mind me, I could've sworn I read it on Emulsive!

Anyway, thanks for the info. I love shooting colour neg but colour balancing is always a struggle. I need to learn to get more comfortable with curves...
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Don't mind me, I could've sworn I read it on Emulsive!

Anyway, thanks for the info. I love shooting colour neg but colour balancing is always a struggle. I need to learn to get more comfortable with curves...
Color balancing is easier if you put a grey card in the middle of every shot.
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Outstanding!
I do believe that it is looking for a title? A time and place for deep thinking/soul searching, REFLECTING!

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Thank you, I am pleased that you like it! Superia created a definite mood there. For context, this was a short trip my wife and I took in late February 2020, basically right before the world ended!
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For fun, here is the Fremont Rocket when it was at an army surplus store in downtown Seattle in 1991. And another after its art deco upgrade when moved to Fremont.

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For fun, here is the Fremont Rocket when it was at an army surplus store in downtown Seattle in 1991. And another after its art deco upgrade when moved to Fremont.
You’re acting like it’s the center of the universe

I got my M135 f3.5 in Fremont. Fun place.

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For fun, here is the Fremont Rocket when it was at an army surplus store in downtown Seattle in 1991. And another after its art deco upgrade when moved to Fremont.

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Super cool! It's definitely a good subject for B&W.
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For fun, here is the Fremont Rocket when it was at an army surplus store in downtown Seattle in 1991. And another after its art deco upgrade when moved to Fremont.

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I remember the "rocket" from when I was a kid growing up in Seattle. You could see it from Aurora entering the tunnel southbound.


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Super cool! It's definitely a good subject for B&W.
And let's not forget about the Fremont Troll...

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