While cleaning out the basement last month, I discovered a long-forgotten shoe
box full of slides. Since they had been down there for nearly 30 years and not
stored under ideal conditions, some have deteriorated, particularly some E-3
(or maybe even E-2) stuff I processed myself long, long ago, it now having a
pronounced loss of color and a shift of what color's left.
I've come close to getting the color back like it ought to be, but I'm still
not satisfied. This is a little JPEG of a straight 5400 dpi scan, with no
attempt made at correcting color, of a shot of my mother, who was a school
teacher, with one of her most favorite students, who was also my high school
sweetheart and first wife, acting silly out by the strawberry patch. (Southern
women for some reason get foolish around a garden.)
http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/media/192375/site1072.jpg
Mother died this past October, and Annette was killed in an automobile accident
in 1963, just over two years after we were married, and, being the sentimental
old fart I have become, now that I've found this picture after all these years,
I'd like to be able to make a halfway decent print, although it's not
particularly sharp, even though taken with a Pentax SLR.
I'm getting closer and closer to getting the colors right, but still no cigar,
so anybody have any suggestions that might help me get it right? I just can't
get the background green without screwing up everything else.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
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