First of all, I love the colors in this picture. Looks like GNP somewhere. OK--How did you do that scan? I've shot three or four rolls of Reala and so far I can't get colors like that--unless I really push the post. Care to share how you scan and "fix" your Reala pictures?
wjlapier wrote:
First of all, I love the colors in this picture. Looks like GNP somewhere. OK--How did you do that scan? I've shot three or four rolls of Reala and so far I can't get colors like that--unless I really push the post. Care to share how you scan and "fix" your Reala pictures?
The location is Ice Lake near Silverton Colorado.
Reala has always scanned easily for me both on my Epson and Nikon, but I did tweak this one a bit. This one was scanned in Nikon Scan 4.02 and I just let it color balance the image, which it did fine. In fact, I've been really surprised by how well Nikon's software handles color negative. Previously I had scanned this in Silverfast Ai with the profile for Reala, which also worked well producing an almost identical result.
I moved the black in just a bit in the scanner software and left the white where it was. Then I applied a slight curve to increase the mid tone contrast. I may have altered the analog gain to keep the whites from clipping, but I don't remember. Once I opened it in photoshop I fine tuned the white and black points a bit in levels. Then I boosted the master saturation +10 or so and masked off the person in the frame. That is all.
Reala has been my favorite color negative film for its color, but the resolution/detail has been rather poor for an ISO 100 film and the grain is more coarse than some 400 speed films I've used, but it is possible that this was all lab created issues. I've seen weird little clumps in the film that almost look like silver halide crystals that haven't been replaced. I've been playing with Ektar this winter and I'll try it out some more this coming summer. I think Ektar will probably replace Reala for me. The one thing with Reala that stood out was the blue skies. I haven't found another C-41 film that produced such nice blue skies. They usually have taken a bit of a cyan tone instead.
wjlapier wrote:
First of all, I love the colors in this picture. Looks like GNP somewhere. OK--How did you do that scan? I've shot three or four rolls of Reala and so far I can't get colors like that--unless I really push the post. Care to share how you scan and "fix" your Reala pictures?
I echo that statement, i have a good 30 rolls of reala rady to shoot and i'd love to be getting results like this.
mrladewig wrote:
This seems like a simple snapshot, but its really not that easy to get a cat to sit still long enough to take a shot with a large format camera.
No kidding! I've tried a few times to take some LF photos of my friends 2 year old, I have much more respect for those who photograph children now, and I now know why there aren't many children in the photos from the 1800's and early 1900's
Peter Figen wrote:
Driving home from Mammoth Lakes a couple of weeks ago near the bottom of Sherwin Grade just north of Bishop. Very flat snowing light, but still interesting. Mamiya 7, 50mm f/11 T-Max100. Drum scanned on a Howtek 8000.
