[Leica] IMG: A Walk in the Woods

[Peter Klein]

Tina:  What a lovely shot. The distant hillsides look otherworldly.

As I mentioned earlier today in your "Kodachrome Scans" thread, I'm not 
sure how much of these color shifts are a function of Kodachrome itself, 
and how much are due to the aging of the transparencies. Or maybe both. 
A lot of old photography books mention bluish "aerial haze" and the need 
for skylight or UV filters to compensate. I'm wondering if the dyes used 
in Kodachrome were hyper-sensitive to UV, and this manifested itself in 
purple clouds and cyan-blue trees, particularly in mid-tones and dark tones.

Back then I was mostly a daily-life Tri-X guy. But I always shot 
Kodachrome when I went hiking or on road trips with my family. It was a 
time of innocence (to tie in with Paul's Simon and Garfunkel reference). 
We didn't worry about laboratory-grade color balancing with 
transparencies. We shot daylight or tungsten. We used UV or skylight 
filters, or occasionally a CC. And what we got was what we got.  Now, we 
have to deal with all that in every shot.  With hundreds of people on 
the Internet to tell us how we messed up.

Digital is easier. Except when it ain't.  :-)
--Peter
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 > PESO:
 >
 > Another Kodachrome scan from 1989, Bavaria, Germany:
 >
 > https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/170062858
 >
 > The trees in the background were much bluer but I subtracted the blue.
 > That's about all.  I did try Neat Image which made it plastic so I 
faded it
 > by 75%.
 >
 > It looks like my memory.  I don't know the people but they fit in the 
scene.
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Tina