11 Responses to “Christmas Morning (04360006)”

1. bob koller Says:
   January 14th, 2008

   Delta 400 and HC110b look like a good combination. Good tones and highlights.

2. matt Says:
   January 14th, 2008

   Bob, so far I’ve only scanned one of the two rolls that I shot like this, but so far I’m underwhelmed by the amount of shadow detail. It’s not bad, but given how dense the highlights are - dense enough to require scanning as a positive - I’d have expected more detail in the shadows.

3. bob koller Says:
   January 14th, 2008

   Well, the highlights have detail. Did you apply curves to image to get shadows to show? What EI did you expose at? I try to scan so as to capture maximum information, even if the scan looks flat. Also, I use the multi-scan feature of VueScan. Then I can adjust the contrast with the editor. Regards, bobk

4. matt Says:
   January 14th, 2008

   I usually aim for a scan that involves minimum manipulation, with the idea that the closer I get before I started moving data around in PS, the better.

   These were shot at 400. The negs turned out pretty dense, too dense for scanning with the default curve from the scanner, so I switched to scanning them as positives, which flattens them out. I then applied a curve to move the shadows down, and a bit of USM to add some local contrast, but there is a bit more noise in the shadows than I like.

5. bob koller Says:
   January 14th, 2008

   Matt, do you use multi-scan? What scanner do you have?

6. matt Says:
   January 14th, 2008

   I use an old ScanDual IV. I don’t use the multi-pass scanning feature; all the testing I’ve done hasn’t convinced me that it’s worth the time.

7. matt Says:
   January 14th, 2008

   FWIW, some of what I’m seeing as noise may just be the increased grain of this combination.

8. bob koller Says:
   January 14th, 2008

   Did the “Dancing About Architecture” photo come from the same roll? You don’t like that one either?

9. matt Says:
   January 14th, 2008

   It did. And I do like these fine, but I think I had higher hopes for this combination, although I’m not entirely sure why, now that I think about it.

   Perhaps I’m feeling particularly picky today, although the more I look at these, the better they look.

10. bob koller Says:
    January 14th, 2008

    I have not developed film since 1979. Your activity is getting me interested in doing my own again. I’ll have to solve the problem of handling chemicals, since I have a septic system.

11. matt Says:
    January 15th, 2008

    Bob, if you use the Ilford wash method, the total amount of liquid used in all parts of the process is just under a gallon a roll for one-shot processes. At those levels, storing the waste water, developer and fixer for later disposal shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

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