pfish wrote:
Twok - I am loving the colours and skin tones in your recent photos
Thanks, the last shot's skin tones are compliments of some very expired Velvia.
pfish wrote:
Thanks for the compliments guys. She is actually casting glass not metal, but perhaps the methods are more similar than they are different?
Its more a fascination with furnaces, melting stuff and making it glow than about the material. I kinda thought it was glass based on the second shot. The poured section didn't look like metal. Doesn't matter, I still like it.
mrladewig wrote:
I have read that fluid mount scanning is like taking a veil off the film in scanning. I would have to say that I would agree with this description. I think there is some increase in sharpness (probably coming just as much from the betterscanning holder), but just as important, it seems like colors are better defined. I have had film drum scanned before, so I knew what I was getting into. The improvement on the Epson flatbed was mostly in the clarity.
mrladewig wrote:
Its more a fascination with furnaces, melting stuff and making it glow than about the material. I kinda thought it was glass based on the second shot. The poured section didn't look like metal. Doesn't matter, I still like it.
Being a glassblower myself, I know where you're coming from!
Kidtexas - I was using my Nikon FE in aperture-priority auto mode, I think these were at f2 but I don't remember for sure. I was using expired, non-refrigerated Sensia 100 and I had the camera's meter set for ISO 100 but I got the film pushed 2 stops when I had it developed. I was basically just firing away and hoping for the best due to a very limited time frame and lack of experience shooting slide film.
Ahh just curious. I was wondering why everything but the glass was so dark - I didn't think hot glass was *that* bright. Slide film and pushing makes sense. They came out great.
mrladewig wrote:
I have read that fluid mount scanning is like taking a veil off the film in scanning. I would have to say that I would agree with this description. I think there is some increase in sharpness (probably coming just as much from the betterscanning holder), but just as important, it seems like colors are better defined. I have had film drum scanned before, so I knew what I was getting into. The improvement on the Epson flatbed was mostly in the clarity.
A couple 100% crops from the same 4X5 film.
k.brown wrote:
Now you just need to get Silverfast!
I have Silverfast Ai. I feel that I get better scans in EpsonScan and stopped using Silverfast a couple years ago. Ironically, it is because I get better color definition and separation in EpsonScan.
After looking at Coolscan 8/9000 prices I decided to try and get the most out of my humble V500. I'm glad I did -- customizing the profile for each roll in Vuescan makes such a huge difference.
Not much of a picture, but the first scan I'm happy with. Now really looking forward to getting my 6x7 stuff back.
My XA (which I never leave home without) overexposes by 2 stops, I guess the light cell has lost its sensitivity over the years. Pulling the film in developing gives me a very low contrast photo and adding contrast in post makes it too grainy grrr
Any idea how to adjust an XA's lightmeter before I go and buy another one (which will probably have the same problem)?
