Sheila in the studio

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This is another scan but , from an old print I had to try to clean it up a bit.. Never tried to work with black and white..Help all you can ... This was shot with TRI-X at 1600ASA and developed with Diaz something I can not remember... And if someone tells me it is not sharp kiss my you know what...

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This was shot with TRI-X at 1600ASA and developed with Diaz something I can not remember... And if someone tells me it is not sharp kiss my you know what...[/QUOTE]
Have any of you been in a sound studio??? I have not in awhile....

Swartzy

I have indeed
been in many sound studios....in fact, I still frequent them

I like it. What I may suggest is running it through a noise filter...not so much to make it look plastic or unreal, just to diminsh a bit of grain. The shot is definitely cool!

BTW...I really appreciate photos like this as the other side of my life is a professional piano technician....get to have lots of fun tuning for varied artists.

Nice shot.

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Swartzy wrote:

been in many sound studios....in fact, I still frequent them

I like it. What I may suggest is running it through a noise filter...not so much to make it look plastic or unreal, just to diminsh a bit of grain. The shot is definitely cool!

BTW...I really appreciate photos like this as the other side of my life is a professional piano technician....get to have lots of fun tuning for varied artists.

Nice shot.

Tri-X AT 1600 ASA made noise or grain , the shot is what matters...
Thanks.....

dlacouture

Hello!

I was wondering, if you have Tri-X, why is it that we can see some red discoloration? (see the mic...)
Don't you scan in B&W? I have a dImage Elite film scanner, and my b&w does not produce RGB files, only one channel, 16bits TIFFs.
(I've just read your post again, and finally understood : this comes from a print, not the negative itself! Sorry!)

Apart from this technical remark, your pic is great... The feeling is here, the voice nearly heard...

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Swartzy wrote:

been in many sound studios....in fact, I still frequent them

I like it. What I may suggest is running it through a noise filter...not so much to make it look plastic or unreal, just to diminsh a bit of grain. The shot is definitely cool!

BTW...I really appreciate photos like this as the other side of my life is a professional piano technician....get to have lots of fun tuning for varied artists.

Nice shot.

I will try that , Thanks for the suggestion...

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dlacouture wrote:

Hello!

I was wondering, if you have Tri-X, why is it that we can see some red discoloration? (see the mic...)
Don't you scan in B&W? I have a dImage Elite film scanner, and my b&w does not produce RGB files, only one channel, 16bits TIFFs.
(I've just read your post again, and finally understood : this comes from a print, not the negative itself! Sorry!)

Apart from this technical remark, your pic is great... The feeling is here, the voice nearly heard...

Scanner is an HP all in one fax machine, I will try to get the brown out of it , thanks for pointing that out to me...

photogmomma

You know, this photo isn't very sharp....

! Seriously, I think reducing the grain a *tad* might be nice. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE grainy photos and probably have too many of them, but some of the grain is a tiny bit distracting. There's also something red on the microphone that I suspect is from scanning.

But all that said, I love this shot! I love the gritty feel - I can almost hear her voice - and the man in the background. Gorgeous capture!

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photogmomma wrote:

You know, this photo isn't very sharp....

! Seriously, I think reducing the grain a *tad* might be nice. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE grainy photos and probably have too many of them, but some of the grain is a tiny bit distracting. There's also something red on the microphone that I suspect is from scanning.

But all that said, I love this shot! I love the gritty feel - I can almost hear her voice - and the man in the background. Gorgeous capture!

I said the sharp thing for a friend of mine who has never shot film just digital was giving me a hard time. I will go back and re-scan the image and do the Noise Reduction today and see what I come up with next time. I will get the hang of photoshop eventually... Thanks for the comments...

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photogmomma wrote:

You know, this photo isn't very sharp....

! Seriously, I think reducing the grain a *tad* might be nice. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE grainy photos and probably have too many of them, but some of the grain is a tiny bit distracting. There's also something red on the microphone that I suspect is from scanning.

But all that said, I love this shot! I love the gritty feel - I can almost hear her voice - and the man in the background. Gorgeous capture!

I think this looks better. Thanks again for the help....

photogmomma

Awesome!! I really like your rescan of it! I love grain, but when it becomes overpowering, it takes away from the photo.... And it doesn't anymore! Nicely done!