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[chrism]

tuco,
I used the trick of scanning a blank frame with Vuescan, locking the exposure, then re-scanning, locked the film base and saved the settings as a preset for Portra 400. Then I did a raw scan and used ColorPerfect to get the colours just about right. Finally, in LR I used the WB dropper to find a neutral spot and clicked. Not much else needed. I don't usually go to those lengths, but the two portraits were taken under fluorescent light and the initial scans had green shadows, so I felt I ought to make the extra effort.

[snay1345]

Desert Road, Mamiya RZ67 on FP4 stand in Rodinal

[snay1345]

Storm in the desert, taken at the same time as the one above but I rotated a bit. The clouds were moving away from the road, I showed up about 10 minutes too late for the storm to be able to be captured with the road. I think that would have made for a better photo.

[snay1345]

Mailboxes with Joshua Tree

[tuco]

tuco,
I used the trick of scanning a blank frame with Vuescan, locking the exposure, then re-scanning, locked the film base and saved the settings as a preset for Portra 400. Then I did a raw scan and used ColorPerfect to get the colours just about right. Finally, in LR I used the WB dropper to find a neutral spot and clicked. Not much else needed. I don't usually go to those lengths, but the two portraits were taken under fluorescent light and the initial scans had green shadows, so I felt I ought to make the extra effort.

Thanks. I've been down the raw scan->ColorPerfect road some years ago. A roadblock at the time was ColorPerfect did not have OSX support. I don't know what it's like now. I've e-mailed the guy at Vuescan and asked if he'd add more color profiles for modern films but apparently he only updates it for running on scanners and not color scanning.

[Corran]

My girlfriend Meagan had to say goodbye recently to one of her favorite prints I've made. I donated THIS big print to a local charity and it was auctioned off. I was surprised and elated that it ended up being the 3rd highest-priced piece in the auction. Now if only they would buy my prints when I have them at shows/galleries, as this one was actually at one time (it didn't sell, obviously, and was priced much lower than the auction hit). It's for a good cause though.

Here she is in front of the print as we left.
Leica III, 5cm f/2 Summitar wide-open, Tri-X, SPUR HRX:

[tuco]

My girlfriend Meagan had to say goodbye recently to one of her favorite prints I've made. I donated ...

Really nice print you donated. At first I thought it was the one on the wall with her head shadow on it.

[Corran]

Thanks tuco! Yeah that other print was from a friend of mine, of the mill her and I were documenting back in 2012-2014.

Now something way different. I'm doing a bunch of social media content creation for the college this semester. Took photos of our dance students auditioning.

Leica M9, 50mm f/1.1 Nokton (my new favorite lens for available-darkness photography):

[tuco]

Now something way different. I'm doing a bunch of social media content creation for the college this semester. Took photos of our dance students auditioning.

Leica M9, 50mm f/1.1 Nokton (my new favorite lens for available-darkness photography):

What f-stop was that?

[Corran]

I think somewhere between f/1.1 and f/1.4.