Kenj8246 wrote:
The state capitol in Austin TX at first light this morning. Wish I'd brought a ladder. Chamonix field camera, Portra 160, Epson V700 scan.
There does seem to be now that I look at it here. Wassn't that bad on my monitor. I did a Match color-neutralize in PS. The building is actually kinda brownish in real life.
Nice shot Kenny, colors look a little off to me also. I really like the Van Horn pics.
I was also at NAS Millington. Spent a lot of time in Northern Mississippi!!
Here are a couple of recent shots:
In my barn Rope-9 by gary2881, on Flickr
Korona 4x5, 6.5"/f4.5 Ilex Paragon, HP-5+, WD2D+
North Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon North-Falls-16 by gary2881, on Flickr
Keith 5x7, Arista EDU 100, WD2D+
I have had this camera a year or so and this was only my second roll through it. Bought it for 1.99 at the thrift store. Really like the lens, much better than the oly stylus.
Kenj8246 wrote:
Nice, Dan. The Foma films seem to respond well to staining developers. I like to do my Arista in PMK Pyro because it's easy to keep and mix.
Nicholas, you're making me look forward even more to getting my Acros order in and irespooled and nto my Kodak Medalist.
Kenny
Thank you - I love the tonality of Acros in XTOL particularly the highlights - they are bright but don't block as easy as when I was developing it in HC110
Jon Buffington wrote:
Very nice Gary and Nicholas!
Thank you - really like the Pakon scans - so hard to find the scanner at a reasonable price. Do you have to do a lot of PP to the output to correct colour or do the inbuilt profiles work well enough?
nicoimages wrote:
Thank you - really like the Pakon scans - so hard to find the scanner at a reasonable price. Do you have to do a lot of PP to the output to correct colour or do the inbuilt profiles work well enough?
The baked in profiles are fantastic. If I do any adjusting, it is WB and that is primarily due to shooting in shade/evening. Also sometimes sloppy in my developing so get that magenta cast from bad temps/expired chems. However when I am doing it correctly, no correction needed. You can also do the correction in the PSI software so really working at that point with the raw file. I forget this though and do simple edits in LR (black/white point setting, little bit sharpening and that is it).
The pakon is really a joy to use. I got mine (plus model) back when they were $250. Nowhere near that now. The non plus though can use the TLX client software and get the same rez files, just a tad slower (the plus can use the PSI software, a little less clunky than TLX). If you like to shoot a lot of 35mm, it really is worth the money. I can scan a weeks worth of film in under a half hour with minimal to no post processing compared to what would take all day on a flatbed plus lots of color correction.
Gary Sommer wrote:
Nice shot Kenny, colors look a little off to me also. I really like the Van Horn pics.
I was also at NAS Millington. Spent a lot of time in Northern Mississippi!!
Jon Buffington wrote:
The baked in profiles are fantastic. If I do any adjusting, it is WB and that is primarily due to shooting in shade/evening. Also sometimes sloppy in my developing so get that magenta cast from bad temps/expired chems. However when I am doing it correctly, no correction needed. You can also do the correction in the PSI software so really working at that point with the raw file. I forget this though and do simple edits in LR (black/white point setting, little bit sharpening and that is it).
The pakon is really a joy to use. I got mine (plus model) back when they were $250. Nowhere near that now. The non plus though can use the TLX client software and get the same rez files, just a tad slower (the plus can use the PSI software, a little less clunky than TLX). If you like to shoot a lot of 35mm, it really is worth the money. I can scan a weeks worth of film in under a half hour with minimal to no post processing compared to what would take all day on a flatbed plus lots of color correction. ...Show more →
Great to hear that - does it have a profile for Ektar 100 - as this is the film I love to use and is the most challenging to colour correct particularly in the shadows.
Really like ektar
