And I was wondering why my c41 negatives were looking pale, thin, and bit red/brown... Well I am an idiot and mixed the chemicals diluted 100% too much. Mixed a new batch up at ultra small working strength - 70ml for btzs tubes. 4 negatives look great, best I've done.
My Epson Scan software went a bit nuts. The preview doesn't match the final image for color negatives only, for some reason. They come out completely purple. I can dial in a bunch of green/yellow to counter it but that's a guessing game. But I did find a better way to invert color negatives and it gets me very close to what colorperfect (colorneg) gives, which is quite neutral:
Do a raw scan as a positive with no adjustments.
Invert in photoshop.
Use curves and find the clipping point for the black and white points of each individual color channel.
Then find a neutral gray point to remove any color casts. To do that create a new layer and fill it with 50% gray. Change the blend mode to difference. Create a new threshold adjustment layer and move the cursor all the way to the left. Slowly move it back to the right until you have an area you can use the eyedropper on. Click your curves layer and the middle gray eyedropper and select one of the black spots from the threshold layer.
Use Colorperfect.
That way you will get repeatability, and you can learn more accurately how a particular film will begave with a particular exposure in particular lighting. Also you will be able to fine tune your developing.
ceder wrote:
Superb portraits Pfiltz! May I ask what lens/camera and film you used for shot no.2?
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Appreciate it. New to film.
All images shot with my RB67 w/50mm Sekor lens, Portra 160 converted to BW via LR3. My RB is my first film camera. Now I'm looking to move into 4x5
I usually strike up a conversation with all my subjects. Usually talk about where they're from, past work experience and so on..
A couple more. Sorry for the quantities of images.
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