[pure-silver] Re: fence row project negatives


On Sep 22, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:


"Shannon Stoney" <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I scanned the flat negatives and put them on my flickr site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonstoney/
I didn't do anything to them to "fix" them in photoshop. These are just straight scans. 

To begin ... the scans are bad.  You don't have information
in the scan for the vegetation, it's all driven out by setting
the white point to the sky.

Scan only for the vegetation in the foreground.  Set the
white point to the lightest highlight in the veg. and the
black for the blackest shadow (or to the unexposed film).


OK. Can you do this in the regular Epson scanning software?
In effect I set the white point to the sky when I exposed and developed the film, because I placed the sky in Zone 7.
I noticed a few minutes ago that when I "fixed" this image in the levels, I couldn't keep the sky at 5%; it went to 0. That told me something right there: stop metering the sky. 



Let the sky and the far trees go where ever they go, don't
try and keep them.

Now go into PS and play with curves to get the image you want.
This will give you an idea of what you will need to do in the
darkroom.

Do the same for the sky and trees: scan for and adjust just for
this part of the image - this will give you and idea of the burn
and required burn contrast for that part of the image.
Hey, cool. Ok, I might need to play around with the scanning software because I've never done this before. 

--shannon






Nicholas O. Lindan
Cleveland Engineering Design, LLC
Cleveland, Ohio 44121
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