Passion Flower

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Passion Flower on a highway median, Marina Del Rey California - Spring 1999

Canon EOS 5, 75-300mm f4.5 USM - set to about 135mm and f22, 25mm auto extension tube, 540 flash set to -2/3 handheld off camera, Agfa Ultra 50.

Composition? Focus? Color balance on my scan?

From my limited scanning experience, it seems to be a lot easier scanning in chromes than negs (at least with the Minolta scanner that I'm using). With chromes all I have to do is set the black and white level on the histogram and un-sharp mask. With negs, I always end having to screw around with the color levels. In this case, about 75 red and 50 magenta.

-- sheldon hambrick (sheldon_hambrick@hotmail.com), December 07, 1999

Answers

I kind of like the composition, but the color balance seems way off. Take a look at: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto? u=33633&a=447942&p=11450017 The composition isn't very good in mine, but the colors are a lot more natural.

-- Brad Hutcheson (bhutcheson@iname.com), December 09, 1999.

Man, a stereo pair of this would be absolutely a knockout!

-- Fritz M. Brown (brownf@idhw.state.id.us), December 09, 1999.

I agree. I haven't had too much luck with negatives (vs chromes) on this scanner. I've posted a copy of the original scan, so you can see what I had to work with. My immediate reaction was that it was way too green, and undersaturated. I bumped up the red and magenta to make it look as much like the print as I could. Any suggestions on what I could have done differently?



-- sheldon hambrick (sheldon_hambrick@hotmail.com), December 09, 1999.


I was agreeing with Brad, but thanks for the comment Fritz :-)

-- sheldon hambrick (sheldon_hambrick@hotmail.com), December 09, 1999.

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