I've been doing some scanning lately. . . .
May 8, 2020 20:14:30 #
and have found some REALLY old pictures that I still like. The last few are just to show you some of my favorite friends (none of which are still with me). I have done some PP work on these, but not a lot. Mostly they are just as shot, on Kodak 100 or 200 film. I did have to spend a LOT of time spotting these, as the dust removal doesn't seem to work on either SilverFast nor the Epson program.
Wouldn't this be a delightful place to camp?
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There's something special about a huge boulder reaching for the sky.
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This is not in a cave. It's a canyon wall, photographed near dark with a pinlight.
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Pete
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George
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Chiquirritin (but she was over 16H!)
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May 8, 2020 20:50:55 #
Very nice set, Kathy! I am the first to say that just because something is old does not mean you cannot still like it (LOL).
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Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
Your scans are better than average. Don't know about anyone else, but I've gotten better scan results off 35mm negative films (using a variety of pro-sumer scanners over the years) than I have off transparency films. (Larger film formats are less an issue for obvious reasons.) I wish I knew why. In any event, scanned film images exhibit a typically different 'quality' --by which I do not mean 'good/bad, better/worse,' instead I mean in terms of acutance and apparent sharpness and such-- than images shot digitally, but (after the inevitable and sometimes seemingly endless spotting that tends to be required), but they still make excellent images, much as you've demonstrated.
Nicely done, Kathy.
Nicely done, Kathy.
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UTMike wrote:
Very nice set, Kathy! I am the first to say that just because something is old does not mean you cannot still like it (LOL).
Thank you, Mike. Sometimes I'm surprised at how much I really like the pictures that I took a long time ago. Glad you like them.
May 8, 2020 22:39:40 #
RichardTaylor wrote:
Good set, and good old photograhs do not age.
Thank you, Richard. At least if one takes care of their negatives they don't age.
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Cany143 wrote:
Your scans are better than average. Don't know ab... (show quote)
Thank you, Cany. I did both negs and slides. Both did pretty well. My problem seems to be getting consistent performance from the software.
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