Thanks Jack. I could burn in her face a bit more but she was no youngster and I didn't want to overemphasize the textures. (She still looks very good today at almost 50.) Her arms were deeply tanned, which created somewhat of a mismatch, so I pulls them down a bit.
Paul On Mar 28, 2013, at 11:14 PM, Jack Davis <jdavi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I think it's a well done scan, Paul. Her skin tone is very light, but you > allowed some nice shadow detail in her face. > Very nice scan overall. > > Jack > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 6:02 PM > Subject: PESO - Revisiting an Old Photo > > I shot this pic about ten years ago with the 6 x 7 and the 165 mm leaf > shutter lens. I used a Pentax AF 400T flash firing into a camera-jointed > umbrella,The film was Portra 400 exposed at f8 at 1/250th. I was never able > to get a good scan of it. Don't know why. Perhaps conflict between the > woman's skin tones and the background. > > Revisited it today, and I was able to get a pretty good rendering with the > Epson V500. I scanned it at 6400 dpi, using the Epson Scan software, which I > have found to be much better than Vuescan. I I did some additional color > correction and some dodging and burning in PhotoShop. Pretty happy with it > now. It's here: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17091312&size=lg > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
