2008-12-04 // 17:53:02
g.
well, i love it, regardless of what you have done or not here ;-)
(I've seen a blue version as well?)
and pls. let me know if i'm right with 516 now vs. 781 before
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^ Took me a moment. 516 Now. 781 is darkness and shadow. |
2008-12-01 // 21:43:14
Urizen
Perfect picture.
2008-12-01 // 18:55:06
JanWolstenholme
haha! faux-trouble-maker strikes again! I would argue that colour correction is best done by completely avoiding the issue by calibrating your monitor/scanner/printer with IT8 targets (I'm not saying I do this, I'm not a pro these days) and the scanner stuff, well sure pixel by pixel is the thing to do but I bet my belly-button that the lady photographer armed with a scruffy ol' Hasselblad with a 16MP square format back would produce work with the same spirit as her polaroid work.
Sorry to detract from commenting on these wonderful pictures but it is such a perverse pleasure to discuss photography on Polanoid. These pics are really magic, I'd love to see a print of "Andi is patient".
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^ I know, talking photography is the one thing missing these days. I'd love to calibrate my scanner and have tried and failed on more than one occasion. However, I can typically 'fix' an image in seconds. The real trick is to resist the impulse to improve bad shots....at least for Polanoid, which I think is meant to showcase actual shots...but we all interpret the mandate differently. Aside from this, I've always stayed true to the mark. Doesn't mean I don't play on my own, of course. Now that Hassy with the 16MP back....I need that for Xmas! |
2008-12-01 // 10:33:50
JanWolstenholme
Go for it. Even with scanned film I (99%) never use photoplop, I limit myself to the darkroom equivalents available in Apple's Aperture; cropping,histogram adjustments, spot and patch to clean up major blotches/hairs from scanner. I find Photoshop(elements) far too cumbersome and get everything done in a jiffy in Aperture, Adobe Lightroom is the same by all accounts. A lady photographer we both know whose name starts with c seams to spend days cleaning scans in photoshop pixel by pixel...the results are of course lovely but the workflow is harder than using a PhaseOne Back so why not go digital. Good luck with film, I'll be interested to watch on flickr. I think I'm getting some chemicals for christmas, found a tank in my box of old stuff the other day.
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^ I've always used PShop to clean dust and color correct back to original...to not do so would be to present an inaccurate representation of the original shot. . .unless one is gifted with a high quality scanner, which I am not! |