Maybe my monitor is fooling me but your version strikes me as a bit
overexposed or undersaturated. But I don't suspect the monitor because
your own Kodachrome scans look perfectly normal to me.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/14/2012 4:53 AM, Moose wrote:
> On 6/13/2012 1:26 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>> PESO:
>>
>> I'm now scanning Kodachromes from Guatemala. While most of my Honduras
>> photos are B&W, most of my Guatemala photos are color. Color seems to be a
>> part of the people of Guatemala and to remove the color is to remove some
>> of their personality.
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/image/144026343
>
> Nice subject/composition.
>
> Lots of words under the bridge about color, etc., especially great detail
> from AG's experience.
>
> I have a much simpler proposal. It looks like this was shot in bright sun in
> the tropics. If so, the image looks quite
> underexposed for the subject.
>
> I don't propose this as a finished product, as several of AG's comments still
> apply. Still, the overall look seem to me
> more like what was probably in front of the camera. Shadow/Highlight,
> Contrast, Curves and, yes, I did mess with color
> in the skin a little. Not at all intended to look like Kodachrome, but like
> my recollection of what things look like in
> that
> light<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Manley/Faviana_and_Reymundo.htm>.
>
> BTW, a slight blue cast in sunlight is in not uncommon in the intense black
> hair of many Indians of the Americas.
> Perhaps exacerbated by being in the shade. I wouldn't take it as indicative
> of an overall color cast problem.
>
> I have not run into particular trouble scanning Kodachrome, but I use a Canon
> FS4000 film scanner and VueScan. All but
> the last few in this gallery are K64 from 1970, although 2& 3 were badly
> underexposed.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Havasu/>
>
> I don't know what equipment you use, but it should be possible to come a lot
> closer right out of the scanner. Like AG, I
> know nothing about SilverFast but that it costs a great deal more than
> VueScan and VS is very capable.
>
> Simple Solutions Moose
>
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