Gonz, Thanks!
I'm at home now. I grabbed the original you posted into Lightroom Classic, cropped it, and applied corrections. I noticed that it was left to right reversed according to the rebate markings, so I flipped it horizontally. The result is a bit cooler than what I did on the iPhone with Snapseed, possibly a bit more 'neutral' to what the original print might have looked like … I captured it in the Develop module so you can see the curves and settings I used as a hint to future corrections of similar negatives. https://www.flickr.com/gp/gdgphoto/E4cPjb Better or worse .. I can't say. LOL! I do a lot of this, mostly with B&W negatives. The part that's hard with negative images is that when you invert them in LR, the controls mostly work inverted and they weren't meant to work that way … it becomes quite hard to execute fine control. So I often rough out approximate corrections, export to positive 16-bit TIFF files, import those, and do the finish editing on the positive images. Makes it a lot easier... enjoy! G > On Sep 30, 2021, at 11:09 AM, Gonz <[email protected]> wrote: > > That looks great, and more natural too. I was having issues with > color cast and such. > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 11:28 AM Godfrey DiGiorgi > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Ten seconds with Snapseed using color balance and curves netted this from >> your thumbnail: https://www.flickr.com/gp/gdgphoto/N777Kf >> >> — >> G >> >> >> >> — >> Godfrey DiGiorgi - [email protected] - 408-431-4601 >>> On Sep 30, 2021, at 8:54 AM, Gonz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Scanned an old negative. Played around with the usual knobs, but cant >>> seem to get it to look decent. There is not enough dynamic range here >>> it seems. I've seen articles somewhere where they make old photos >>> like this pop out almost to new. How does this work? >>> >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/66982297@N02/51535604096/in/dateposted/ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> --Gonz -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
