[Leica] Retro Blast... IIIA and a Summar

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

Richard,

That probably wasn't the original scan, was it? It was a JPG file, not
a tiff. I hope you are scanning to tiff.

Anyway, assuming it was just a jpg of a tiff file ...

I would suggest that you tweak the histogram in your scanner software.
Find the two extremes (white and black) and move little sliders so
that nudge the two extremes of the scale. I think that will help you
out quite a lot, leaving you less to do in Photoshop. An original scan
need not be that flat.

Anyway, I'm glad you chose that shot to illustrate your point. I like it.

Daniel

On 12/1/05, Richard <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote:
> You would be right if it is just lazyness. Here's the original scan:
> http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/tmp/crop0018.jpg
>
> As you can see, unfortunately, I got some water spot and dust issues on
> this roll. Some part of my process is not right on developing and I am
> still tweaking. Most are not this bad. Anyway, it sure is not laziness that
> cleans those spots :-)
>
> BTW, I work well over 60 hours and I have 2 full time employees working for
> me. We are a teeny company but I don't think anyone has ever called me
> lazy. To each their own...
>
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please
> use richard at imagecraft.com)
>
>
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