Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jay, I went back and re-looked at the Oktoberfest shots and do not see this effect, really. Maybe a bit of bleeding of highlights but not like this. Maybe it is just this film. There is no Photoshop diffusing going on, I scan using Vuescan and my Photoshop manipulation is subject to strict self-imposed limits (basically cropping, levels, unsharp masking and spotting). I have cleaned the scanner today per Tina's suggestion and hope for the best. Thanks for your comments and suggestions! Nathan Jay Burleson wrote: > Hello Nathan, > > (snip) > >http://www.wajsman.com/44.jpg > >Incidentally, it looks on the scans as if the black areas, especially > >from the witch's clothing, "bleed" into the surrounding bright areas. > > I noticed this right away. Actually, your B&W scans from the Octoberfest > looked like this also. The look received a couple of comments but I don't > think you connected the questions with the screen image. > If you were doing wet printing you'd achieve this look by diffusing the > image whilst printing. That makes the blacks diffuse. But, since you are > doing digital scanning from the negative... > Do you have a Photoshop "Batch" command set up for running the scans? If so, > maybe you accidentally stuck a "diffuse glow" into the action. > I honestly don't know if it could be a dirty lens in the scanner. It seems > to me that a dirty scanner would cause more degradation than that. Maybe > Mark Rabinier would know - he had a dirty scanner recently. > Anyway, keep up the good images! > > Jay Burleson > "It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of > our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done > for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in > return. " > Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. > UPDATED 5-30-01: http://www.jayburleson.com/ > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html