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renne
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(More photos after the break)

I've been dreading scanning these photos. From the outset I assumed scanning color transparency film would be a big pain in the ass, since I rely heavily on Negative Lab Pro for scanning negatives and don't have much Lightroom experience apart outside of the plugin. It turns out, I was right!


The results I ended up with do look good, but looking at the film itself I can tell I'm losing a ton of color detail in the shadows and highlights. Most of the browns in tree trunks lost their oranges and look much duller than the physical slides. I shot these on an overcast day, but even so the small amount of blue in the sky looks washed out after scanning. The greens are pretty but don't match what I see. Using the "Adobe Landscape" profile in Lightroom restored the greens a bit (i don't have any fancy third party LUTs i apologize).

I tried reshooting the roll with a lowered amount of light and more attention on the exposures to try to capture more of the dynamic range. While this kind of worked, I prefer the original scans. The reshoot just turned out too dull due to the reduced backlighting.

The next roll I shoot, I think I'll have the lab scan it first to see the results they get. I'd also like to try exposure bracketing and compositing the results in Photoshop to see where I end up. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the pictures regardless of my struggles.

This one is out of focus but the base of the tree looks like an ape stretching its arms out. Kino.


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in reply to @renne's post:

Multiple scan exposures and stacking is not a bad idea, the VueScan software I use has that multi-exposure option as a single checkbox option if you select Slide Film as the type of media you're scanning.

Either way, without you framing it as disappointing the shots wouldn't give that impression on their own! I've only been shooting expired stuff I got in a lot from a twitter moot last year but as I do more of the E-6 stuff I'm really itching to shoot some actual fresh positive film...

Can I really call myself an amateur photographer if I don't dismiss everything I shoot as mediocre? Scary...

My lab's scans tend to be pretty disappointing but since they're using a film scanner I wonder if they apply automatic stacking like that.

The only expired E6 I have is a 120 roll Ektachrome 160 from the 70s and it smells SO toxic that I'm afraid to run it through my camera