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Portra 400 on a SWC/M
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Portra 400 on a SWC/M
Cool shot!! What exactly is going on?
To add to the thread, here's an image of 3 of my friends, all photography students here at the university. Shot with a new Fujica G690 camera I'm trying out, 100mm f/3.5 Fujinon (Tessar), on Fuji 160C film, cropped to 8x10 ratio, bounce flash:
http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/...su-0543ssc.jpg
Bryan, it's the Reclaiming Spiral Dance.
Took this in May 2013 at Valley of the Gods, UT. I was all set up to photograph something else at nautical twilight when one of those pink clouds lit up Rooster Butte and Setting Hen Butte. I quickly switched lenses and was able to get this shot. Pentax 6x7, 55-100mm zoom, Velvia 50. Since I don't have a gargantuan GND to cover the 55-100, I lowered the sky a bit in Photoshop to match my vision.
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120 Ektar 100/Rolleiflex Automat Tessar on a trail on Mount Battie in Camden Hills State Park. Starting to think of iso 100 as slow. 20 years ago, it would be considered normal speed.
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img545 by philbrookjason, on Flickr
JP that is out standing!
My friend Ed and his F2, after we did some hiking to take in the fall weather. Pentax 67, 55-100mm f/4.5, Portra 160NC, last shot on the roll of 220:
http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/...v14-0537ss.jpg
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Fujica 6x9 and Portra
Glad to share how I scan. I turned down my resolution for the sake of the screenshots; I usually work at 2.5k res but that doesn't matter with regard to color/tones. I basically scan to get all the range captured, and adjust contrast and fine tuning post-scan.
See the settings on the left... for 4x5/8x10 I do lower res.
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Basically, set the tone curve to flat for the RGB channel and it will stay flat for each color. Then set the sliders on the input-output gradient to the extremes for the RGB channel and it will stay like that for each color. Then in each color (as shown with Blue), I set the range on the graph to include the range that was prescanned with a little room on each edge. If the L/R sliders are in the colored area, you are clipping highlights or shadows. Do that later if you want in PS. Go through each color and then the RGB. You'll end up with a pretty close scan in terms of color balance with contrast a little low. I save it as a TIFF and open it in PS.
Then in PS I can pay more attention to curves and contrast and finer color balance if I have successfully captured it from the scan.
Now the 21st century thing to do would be to do each of these adjustments to a layer, but I started with Aldus Photostyler for editing scans if that dates me. (Aldus was swallowed by Adobe in 1994) I adjust each color as the scan is rarely accurate with regard to light and dark for each color. I scan B&W film in as color too, since the pyrocat stain is a color unto itself and throws the blue channel off to one side a bit. The right side of the histogram is white, left is black. I like some black or close to black in many photos. I don't often have pure white though; nothing is super bright white in the photo and avoiding clipping the white produces some natural realistic look, particularly as most people's monitors are too bright. If you were printing, you can't print pure white anyways on the inkjet, so keeping it off white is practical. Why does setting the light and dark for each color produce decent color balance? Because white is a even mix of colors and black is an even mix of colors (in pigment, but not in transmittive). That leaves room for error in the middle, but that's super easy to correct with a minor curve adjustment in whatever color is off or using the color balance sliders which I won't demonstrate.
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Now, I did blue last and the sky was lacking in cyan a little bit and the ground was lacking in red, so I pulled the red curve down in the sky tones and up in the lower tones. Color balance tool can do this too.
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Overall it was lacking a little contrast, so I added some with the RGB curve. This is a good time to make any final adjustment to the white/black points with the sliders here.
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This is pretty quick work: I probably spend a minute adjusting things in the scan, and 2 minutes in PS. I'm not a high volume shooter. If I were I'd say this was slow and I'd have to give up a little color control to more automated scanning methods.
Oh yeh, do any crops before you start editing curves in PS. Rotate at any time you feel like it. After saving my work, I do a resize and save for web for posting online.
JP, I was wondering, in Epson Scan, when you focus the active area in the histograms (for each color), does it to a histogram stretch and divide that selected area into 256 values? Or does simply keep those existing values and relegate the exterior values to 0 and 255?
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7406/...d1037821_z.jpgWildflower by Kirigakuresaizoh, on Flickr
Mamiya 7II, 80mm, Provia 100
Derbyshire Wye - Forget-Me-Nots above Black Barn Weir
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HolgAgon (freepdfhosting.com/b316cbe2ff.pdf) Fujichrome Velvia 50
RR
My scanning and PS process is the same as jp's. I scanned and Photoshop'd two 4x5 transparencies yesterday in this very manner on my V700. I can get the original look of the transparency with manual adjustments in the software. With Epson Scan the automatic settings clip tones and colors, and never give me the original colors and never the proper contrast range of the film. It's worth learning how to adjust the manual settings. Photoshop works goes easier too.
Some autumn color shots made in a local park on negative film (Ektar and Agfa Optima 100). Developed at home in what now seems to be slightly degrading chemistry (after many rolls and sheets). Mamiya 645 handheld, 80/2.8 wide open, mostly 1/60s, so not the sharpest pics one could imagine. But still satisfying to have made these quickies. Scanned with a 4990 and the software it came with. Color and contrast to taste with curves and hue/saturation. Yes, I do like candy bar colors, sue me...
http://www.koraks.nl/galleries/snaps...2_KE645_02.jpg
Ektar
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Agfa Optima
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Agfa Optima
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Ektar
One of my first twin lens shots, two flashes on a bracket one bounced off the ceiling, I really need to re-scan a bunch of old stuff now that I have a decent scanner. My kids, taken a little over 30 years ago with a Yashica "A".
Then, from about 20 years ago with an Agfa Isolette.
Then, about 13 years ago, Mamiya 645 w. Tiffen Warm/Soft FX II.
Then three years ago, the boy greeting his bride after his last tour (not color, but it's the last medium format I've got of any of the kids). Taken with a Zeiss Ikon and a shaky hand.
On the main thoroughfare around Jackson Square, you'll find the a brass band playing nearly every day the same ol' New Orleans theme songs and demanding "tips for pics," with many a tourist posing with an errant trombone or trumpet pressed into their hands by the band leader. However, if you travel deeper into the French Quarter, 'round back of the Cathedral, you'll find the real New Orleans jazzers, usually playing in the street and drawing a huge crowd. Last year I saw a an amazing Creole Clarinetist, with a killer voice too. This time around was a full jazz quintet with some awesome tunes. Boy do I love me some jazz.
Here's a couple shots - Pentax 67, 165mm f/2.8, Portra 400:
http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/...ring/noj-1.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8642/...ecd34b9a_c.jpgSnickers by DevalJoshi, on Flickr
Rollei 2.8GX
Portra 400
500C/M, Zeiss CF T* 120/4, New Portra 160, Jobo C-41 Press Kit
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a neighbour procured me a mobile building crane so I could photograph my village from about 25 meters high.
This picture was taken freehand (low wind blowing) fujica gw 690 wide open 1/250sec kodak portra nc 160 epson v 750
I enlarged it for the village shop 70x100cm no problem
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Bentonite Hills - Capitol Reef National Park
Rolleiflex 3.5E - Kodak Pro 100 (PRN)
petrópolis
yashica 635, rollei cr200
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8647/...5641dbe9_c.jpgSem título by pedro cruz.
violeiras
pentax 6x7, 105mm, fuji 160ns
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7551/...37692053_c.jpgSem título by pedro cruz.
pentax 6x7, 105mm, fuji provia 400x
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8582/...c6417246_c.jpgSem título by pedro cruz.
Tuco and SCM, great stuff. SCM, those colors are wicked!
pentax 67II 90mm
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8644/...993cd956_o.jpgdouble yellow by vinnywalsh.com, on Flickr
Thanks Marty. Hope you are doing well on your road trip (despite the broken camera :()
I am home now. Got back about two weeks ago. Still processing, scanning film. Just got the E6 and C41 chemistry yesterday. :cool:
BTW that guitar is a National brand. Not a cheap instrument. I would love to own one.
Cool, good luck with the color processing!
Thanks, djdister & Vinny!
I just got back my first roll of Velvia 50 from the processors yesterday. These were my first slide film shots I've ever made. I think I'm going to like using it!
Shot on my Mamiya RB67 ProS with a Sekor KL180mm lens on Velvia 50.
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Winter Morning - Velvia 50 by Colorado CJ, on Flickr
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Winter-Morning---Velvia-50---2 by Colorado CJ, on Flickr
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Udaipur, Rajasthan, lake and city palace. In the palace museum is a great collection of Indian photography from 1857 to 1957,
a lot of high quality hand-coloured large format photos (done by indian miniature painters). The entrance was nearly hidden.
photo taken by 6x9 rangefinder Zeiss Ikon 3.5 f=10.5cm Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar Kodak Portra160, Epson v750
Shots from the Renaissance Fair, RB67, 150SF, Ektar
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Amazing statue on banks of the Rhone in Lyon
portra 160
Rolleiflex Automat Tessar
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8580/...3a7d5871_c.jpgtest du Rolleiflex retour de révision 004 by Bokey Shutter, on Flickr
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8574/...275b0a18_c.jpgtest du Rolleiflex retour de révision 003 by Bokey Shutter, on Flickr
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Rolleiflex 3.5E - Kodak Pro 400 (PPF)
silence that precedes the leap
yashica 635, fuji 160ns
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Linhof Technika 70, 53mm f/4 Super-Angulon, Fuji Pro160:
http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/...k70-1202ss.jpg
Mamiya RZ 67 on Kodak Ektar 100
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7204/...426ab66b_c.jpgUntitled by Shutter_Inc., on Flickr
Sunset.....testing my 10 stop ND for the first time.
Mamiya RB67
Portra 160
50mm Sekor C
5 minute exposure with 10 stop ND and 2-stop Soft edge GND
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I acquired a Shen Hao 612 back from Ed Bray and tested to see if I could get the hang of it. Turns out it's pretty easy to use and the 6x12cm format is definitely worth some more exploration!
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Both on Ektar 100. Looks like my developer has finally run its course, so I'd better get me a new kit.
Here's a mix... Portra 160 in the rolleiflex.
Jaguar Heritage Driving experience, Honiley Warwickshire UK
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8748/...f4fb5fef_z.jpgimg963 by philbrookjason, on Flickr
And some loosely Eliot Porter inspired coastal stuff at Squirrel Island Maine last November.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8689/...dae225ff_z.jpgimg978 by philbrookjason, on Flickr
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7622/...a4902ccb_z.jpgimg975 by philbrookjason, on Flickr
Pentax 67, 35mm Fisheye, Portra 160NC:
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Fuji GW690III
Kodak Portra 160NC @125