After a few years of admiring Charlie's scan from his extraordinary travels, I finally got off my non-photographic end and scanned 1000 frames from a trip I took in 1977 as a 19 year old through SE Asia, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Israel. Seemed a good way to turn 55 next week. Here's the first BW image taken in Sri Lanka.
Oooh! Oooh! Oooh!
Give me more!
Not just because they're scans (from color slides, B&W negs or )
I want more because this is an excellent image with perfect processing and is from a place to which I never traveled. Plus a few other reasons.
Muchos Kudos!
Charlie
Joe, Douglas, Chris: thanks very much. I'll be working on these for years, though less than the 35 years they lay around the basement. Don't reckon I have that much time left!
Charlie: the film is Fuji color slide film, though I've long forgotten which type and what ISO. I had two cameras and I think I had ISO 100 in one and 400 in the other. These were scanned by ScanCafe to produce reasonably high res TIF files. This is my first experience with scanned film and I'm a bit startled by the softness of the images. There is also a fair amount of color noise in the ISO400 images. I've been using some of the NIK software to work on these, starting with their noise reduction software (DFine) and then using Vivezza to improve various areas. Followed by tweaking in PS. Boatload of work!
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