Wet Street

Flooded street after a winter storm

5/5

Just a comment on some of the pics you have submitted. Some amazing subject matter but I think it is hurt by the type of film and or scanner you are using. I know there are some pretty vibrant colors in there but they just aren't coming through.

 

I've been scanning with a Nikon Coolscan at 300 dpi.

I've been using PS for years but don't really pretend to know it.

Any suggestions?

Perry

Not much for photoshop myself, still a lot to learn. Are you setting your black white and gray points before you scan? I have never used the coolscan but my scanner lets me do that and seems to bring all the colors into order, I am pretty sure you can do that in PS too, but not sure how off the top of my head.

 

Do your slides look the same as the scan? If so it could just be an exposure issue when it was shot. In the case of this photo if you are using a center weighted average meter then the sky at the top of the scene is going to throw off your meter readings.

Matt

the slides look better. The camera, a Nikon FA has uses matrix

sampling for exposure- A photojournalist friend of mine from NYC told me after looking at my slides on a light table that the camera had great exposure.

Yeah its not all of the images you have posted, only some of them. Not knocking your work, just trying to help out.

nice treatment of the subject matter. re: the color/saturation, the photos don't look "unnatural". it seems to me that some films boost the saturation to make the image pop off the screen/print. it looks like some photographers have done it again with PS automatically before they load them here.

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