Thanks Moose, I really appreciate the efforts. You know post processing is not
my strength (that's an understatement :-)). I do not think it is an issue with
the scanning software, Epson Scan. Rather, I just do not like to play with
curves etc. in Photoshop. The only reason I even use Photoshop on these images
is that it is easier to clean up dust spots etc. than with Lightroom.
Having said all this, there is also the question of preferences--I tend to lean
towards muted tones and dislike overprocessed images (part of the reason why I
have never gotten much into post-processing). Your examples are not in that
category, and I definitely like what you did with the first image, and to a
lesser degree with the couple walking on the pier.
Cheers,
Nathan
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
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YNWA
On Mar 26, 2011, at 1:04 AM, Moose wrote:
> On 3/23/2011 3:14 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>> I have added 10 pictures shot around here with my Fuji MF rangefinder to my
>> film gallery. Start with this one:
>>
>> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Sometimes-I-use-film/7590141_XFqsu#1226387893_E2Nfr-O-LB
>
> Some excellent new images there!
>
> But I'm not sure your scanner software is doing you any favors. To my eye,
> you are capturing excellent subjects for MF
> B&W film - and the scanning process, almost certainly the software and/or
> settings, is making them far less than they
> could be.
>
> Have I done more than that in my examples? Sure, but just a good job of
> scanning would make huge improvements!
>
> It's doing a good job of retaining the whole brightness range, avoiding
> clipping at top and bottom of the histogram. But
> it's expanding the mid tones upward, compressing the upper mid range/lower
> highlights into huge spikes near the top of
> the histogram. In most of the images, highlight tonal detail is compressed so
> much that it just looks white.
>
> Fortunately, with no clipping and the compression up at the top of the
> histogram, there's enough data to do a fairly
> nice job of recreating more properly spread tonalities. Working with good
> scans at fill size in 16 bit would be subtler,
> which might or might not be noticeable in a web image compared to what I've
> done below.
>
> The first image is strongly affected by this. In the original you posted,
> there is almost no detail in the stone on the
> left. Squash the highlight spike down and spread it out and, Bob's your
> uncle, there's all kinds of textural/tonal
> detail in the stone.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Others/Wajsman/Sometimes_I_Use_Film&image=SIuf_Plaza_deAa.jpg>
> (In all of these examples, just click on the left of the image to see the
> original.)
>
> Same effect, although less significant with this subject.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Others/Wajsman/Sometimes_I_Use_Film&image=SIuf_MonCafea.jpg>
>
> Here, the effect makes the image very flat, by taking so much contrast detail
> out of the buildings.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Others/Wajsman/Sometimes_I_Use_Film&image=SIuf_Conversationia80.jpg>
>
> On this one, I may well have gone too far for some in taking away the misty
> look. Even so, look past that for a moment
> to see how the scan compression made almost all the interesting cloud detail
> invisible.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Others/Wajsman/Sometimes_I_Use_Film&image=SIuf_Playa_de_Postiguetia75.jpg>
>
> Now this is just a beautiful image - when the clouds aren't seriously
> compromised.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Others/Wajsman/Sometimes_I_Use_Film&image=SIuf_Salinas_de_Santa_Polaia60.jpg>
>
> Here, the red filter held the clouds through scanning, but the building and
> foreground again lost detail.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Others/Wajsman/Sometimes_I_Use_Film&image=ISuf_Casa_Marilynia70.jpg>
>
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