retrofocus wrote:
Jon, great processing with C-41 and the Ektar films. Love how your greens and shadows turned out - I found Ektar very pleasing. Only issue is sometimes a bluish cast in dark shadows. How did you adjust the white balance in your digitized negatives? By dark and white point curve selection?
Thanks for the comments and I am glad you noticed. Most of my work is done in lightroom. I'm not into heavy editing with film but ektar does leave a blue cast in the shadows. I could compensate with a warming filter however what I did is use the gradient tool and/or the brush tool to balance out the WB in the shot. I would add some warmth to the shadow areas to even things out. Quick and simple though not always perfect. Sometimes I may bring the warmth down (and temp sometimes with that magenta cast that sometimes pops up) in the highlights for more even balanced. I find portra does not doe this as drastically however any c-41 becomes somewhat problematic from strong shadows to strong highlights. Just the nature of it. I choose to edit in post instead of carrying a bunch of filters. Come to think of it, even shooting digital I often run into this, workflow is the same.