Some of the night shots have taken on a green tone from HID or mercury vapor lights. That is one of the reasons I do not like slide film in difficult lighting. It seems much more difficult to fine tune color temp in slide film scans than when scanning color negative. That specific type of lighting is really difficult to correct anyways, but it seems more difficult in slides.
Some of the night shots have taken on a green tone from HID or mercury vapor lights. That is one of the reasons I do not like slide film in difficult lighting. It seems much more difficult to fine tune color temp in slide film scans than when scanning color negative. That specific type of lighting is really difficult to correct anyways, but it seems more difficult in slides.
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Thanks! I don't even care to correct the colors as these are all lab scans and I leave for Hiroshima shortly so I don't have the time to fix them. Slide film is so hard to scan anyway. It looks so much better on the slide than it ever does scanned. I've had no luck figuring out my V700 and it turns out all of my height tabs are the same size, so there is no way I see to adjust the film plane heigh. I'm about to give up on this and sell it.
I've lived in DC (and now, 35 miles out) for 17 years and I don't think I've ever attempted as many images of the city (protests aside) as you have. Maybe I just take it for granted, and clearly that's a mistake.
Well composed protest shot. The camera angle provides some tension through the frame adding to the obviously tense situation.
Its hard sometimes when you live in a city to see with fresh eyes. I lived in Denver for 10 years and have very few shots from the city and its a beautiful city too. I had alot more shots from the places my work took me, Singapore, Brussels, Paris, New York. I work alot harder on getting local shots now that I live in Colorado Springs. It also doesn't hurt that I planned the DC trip with photography in mind and that I had some ideas on what and when I wanted to shoot. The one thing I wanted to shoot but didn't was some night shots of the monuments. We were just too tired by the end of the day to go back to the hotel, grab the tripod and head back out.
I've worked or traveled in cities all over the world from SE Asia to Old World Europe, midwest, east and west coast US cities. As I mentioned before, I used to live in the DC area and I've traveled there before. What I love about DC is the scale of the city due to Lafayette's design. When you're in a city designed for maximum capacity like New York, it can feel like your walking in a canyon. In DC, the wide boulevards and limited building height give the city a very human scale and in my opinion provide a very open feeling to the city. I probably could have spent a couple of weeks there photographing architecture, people, etc. I've only scanned about a third of the film so far. I've certainly cherry picked some of the best first, but I've still got alot to scan.
TWoK wrote:
I've had no luck figuring out my V700 and it turns out all of my height tabs are the same size, so there is no way I see to adjust the film plane heigh. I'm about to give up on this and sell it.
That would be this one, which I titled "Spying on the Nudist Colony".
I have a second sheet of this shot processed much better (because it was done by someone other than myself) which I'll try to scan sometime soon. In this case I processed it in my Combi-Plan tank with developer that was too warm. The result was a very grainy image from 4X5 Ilford Delta 100. I've also been very frustrated by uneven development with this tank. I keep getting variation in my development across the sheet.
All i have to say is wow. The images your showing are some of the best examples of film scanning i've seen! Keep them coming, always nice to see.
I feel bad that i have my 5x4 and Blad sitting in my bag which rarely gets used! I'm currently lacking a lightmeter and film scanner though which dampens the motivation! Although watching these images being posted makes me feel a lot more inclined to go buy a meter! :-)
Here's another pic from my first roll of Tri-X. I was pretty impressed by the amount of detail I was able to pull from the scan. Original scan was at 3200dpi and gave me a 8700x6600px file. The crop is from downsized version, 4300 x something. Makes my 5D files look tiny.
This was shot at about F8ish, and 1/20 sec, handheld.
