Washington Square Park scene

[A miller]

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Memorial Day

M3, 50mm DR cron, porta 160, with a skylight filter.

 

I thought about altering the skin tones to remove the pink'ish hue but then figured that this is precisely what the skylight was intended to render and so I left it b/c it does provide an interesting vintage look.

 

I deliberately positioned the trash can between the couple as I liked the fact that the domed shape of the can was similar to the shape of the heads of the couple.

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[stuny]

Adam -

 

Lovely. I too would not change the color balance but I'm curious what a slight increase in shadow slider would do.

[A miller]

Hi Stuart - I think you are on to something. Here's a revised version with the shadows slide a little to the left... Thanks for improving my shot

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[stuny]

Adam -

 

Thanks. That's better.

[tmldds]

Second version is very nice thanks to Stuart's hawk's eyes!

[A miller]

Second version is very nice thanks to Stuart's hawk's eyes!

 

 

Many thanks. Yes, I indeed derive a lot of value from the critical comments made on this forum, especially in cases such as this when I am digitizing a negative without even seeing a 4x6 print beforehand (too much extra cost) with my nikon coolscan which is good but I am not smart enough to optimize the workflow and usually get raw scans that are on the flat side and often need meaningful tweaking of exposure and contrast.

[Karl G]

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Nice couple portrait. I used to use a cool can back in the day, and the joke was that it was named for it's output. Cool colors and flat. I was shooting a fair amount of Porta VC 160 and it almost always needed boosting post scan to get close to the look of the prints as I recall.

[A miller]

Very interesting, Karl. That is exactly what I tend to get with my 35mm negatives, slightly faded and lacking contrast. Of course, this is fairly easy to correct in PP but you need to think of all the things that need to be done. It is easy to stop short of perfection simply because the picture becomes satisfying. I always have in mind that for printing purposes it is better to leave the image slightly on the lighter side as images tend to print darker than they look on the screen. But I am prone to leaving the images to light, as my initial post on this thread illustrates.

 

I will say, though, that I have had no problems with fading and contrast on scanning medium format negatives, even 45-yr old ones, of which I scanned about 750 in the past 5 or so months...

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[pauledell]

Adam,

 

The improved version is wonderful with the carefully planned framing, the bright clean colors and the sharpness.

 

Paul