Hello everyone… attached is an image that I am in the midst of working on after having drum scanned from an 8x10 neg. As you can probably see at a glance, there are lines that remain from the development of this neg that I would like to get rid of and still be able to use the image. If you can't see them initially, look in the sky, primarily on the left and closer to the horizon. In the past I have dealt with similar situations when the lines were dominant in a single channel, but in this case, they are equally present in the channels.
This, as well as pesky mottling, is something that seems to happen primarily when the negative is pretty dense as a result of longer exposures (around a minute or more). I probably should have just exposed separate negs, one for the highlights and one for the shadows, but I didn't, and now I'm faced with this issue.
Has anyone found a way to address such an issue without causing too much damage? I feel as though the softness of the sky does allow for a bit of wiggle room to get rid of them safely.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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