Monday, August 31, 2009
Scanning and film choices
I hadn't used Kodak Portra 400NC that much before I went home, but it is inexpensive and semi fast negative film, so development is a little cheaper, and so is the film. I wanted something fast because I knew I would be shooting from the airplane a lot. After scanning quite a few, the color pallete has left me a little disappointed. Most of my images seem too warm, and yellows/browns come through too much. I'd used E100G before, and the Ektar 100, both from Kodak, and seen better blues. Most of what I've scanned from my trip home has been either the Portra or Ektar, and I much prefer the look of the Ektar. The trip was a blast, and I shot a lot of film. The scenary in Alaska makes shooting around here (Spokane, WA) much less appealing. The few scans I've done of the Velvia 50 have had great color reproduction (the lone canoer, and noseup seen in the post below).
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This is odd, because my experience is the exact opposite. I find Ektar to be warmish and Portra to be coolish. To me, all of the pictures you've posted here seem too blue. What program are you using to scan, and what's your color balancing method? May I need to re-calibrate my monitor.
ReplyDeleteI can guarantee its not your monitor. I scan the images just to get them digitized so I can share them, and I really don't spend very much time on it, hence all the hairs/dust/stuff on all of the images. My color balance method is squinting one eye and moving the hue bar back and forth until I get frustrated/bored, or think it looks like what my, probably skewed, memory of the scene was. Its a Canon 8800F and i'm using the software that came with it, albeit through Photoshop CS4. I'm up for suggestions on scanning software though, as well as any other tips.
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