A Portrait of Jane
Added 2023-09-13 17:04:50 +0000 UTCAs some of you know, I gave up darkroom photography three or four years ago. It was partly about the isolation, partly about concern for toxic chemicals and their effect on me, and mostly because I just prefer to work in daylight these days. However, I have MANY film negatives, mostly medium format and 8x10. This is an example of a 120 negative I dry scanned on a flatbed scanner, and then 'cleaned up' (more or less) in Photoshop. This is not the ideal way to scan a negative. Most of the b&w images I have posted in the past have been scans of prints, which to my eye are of better quality than this one. My questions to you are these:
1) Do you feel like the image quality of the above image is good enough that I should share more here?
2) Do you even want to see more at all (scanned b&w images)?
3) Do any of you that are photographers here have experience with 'wet' scanning on a flatbed scanner?
Comments
I like how this looks.
Tits And Giggles
2023-09-21 01:25:18 +0000 UTCAgree they are interesting and beautiful. I’d like to see more! Scanning should give a faithful reproduction but set up can be a pain. If the scanner software isn’t up to it there are good third party packages
Paul Sammak
2023-09-17 00:41:55 +0000 UTCI agree with George’s responses above - it’s a different aesthetic but no less interesting!
J E R FRIEDENBERG
2023-09-14 10:30:09 +0000 UTC1. Yes, the quality is fine. First, it is the image that is most important and, second, I think of it as a different format (like instant film) where it doesn’t need (or even be desired) to be super sharp. 2. Yes, I would enjoy seeing more of your scanned black & white images 3. I have zero experience in scanning images so I can be of no help unfortunately in that regard
George Streng
2023-09-13 18:57:54 +0000 UTC
