It has the look of something from another era. As in much older than 1990. And it does have something of a mysterious feel to it.
Wonderful photo of a beautiful young lady, whoever she may be. Cheers, frank On 12 July, 2015 4:42:23 PM EDT, John <[email protected]> wrote: >During my ongoing clean-up trying to de-clutter around here I was >cleaning up some stuff in my basement. I found an envelope with a >couple >of film strips. > >There was no date on it, but because of a couple of other photos, one >of >which I actually remember taking, I'm dating it to late summer 1990. > >Which means I most likely used a Super Program w/ SMC Pentax-A 50mm >F1.4 > >Based on the date & what I can see in another (hopelessly out of focus, >motion blurred) photo, I took this out at my Mom's house in the >country. >The little girl is (probably) the daughter of one of my sister's >friends. I remember them being around there that summer. > >https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/19634072932p > >I have no idea how these two strips of film ended up in my basement, >because the environment down there is not good for keeping documents & >such, but this is the second or third cache of old photos I've found >down there. All I *know* is *I* didn't put them down there. > >It's a fairly thin (slightly underexposed) negative on TMax-100 and >quite the worse for having been down in that basement for so long. The >emulsion is failing. I scanned it with a Nikon CoolscanIV ED & cleaned >it up in Photoshop. The Coolscan produces an RGB image even for B&W >films. > >I applied Nik Color Efects Pro Dark Contrasts & Silver Effects Pro >Antique Plate filters and used Tony Kuyper's actions for resizing & >save >for the web. > >Considering the sorry state of the negative I started with, I'm pretty >pleased with the results. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
