Looking for help on this photo!! It is a scan from a negative, and it look very grainy. All the Slides I scan look great. If anyone has any sugestions to help me out with this I would be greatful. Some info, ISO 100 film, Agfa, Lens, I think Soligar 90-210 zoom, close to the 210 side. Scaned on a Dual scan IV, at 2400dpi. I have tried 3200, 1200, 800, the results are similar. Used 'Dust Brush' in Photoshop Elements. pleas help I am lost!!
Fabrizio, I tried vuescan a little, but came up with the same results. Other scans from the same roll come out better. I am having a 11x14 enlargement made to see how it looks. I was using 3200dpi, 8x sample, and dust brush. I came up with a scan that was better, but we will see how it prints. Other rolls (Fuji) scan much better. So I guess I will have to play around with different films. Slides come out great. The water falls were shot on Velvia, then scanned at 3200dpi, 8x or 16x I can't remember no dust brush.
Thanks for the help John
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Fabrizio Fiorucci{K:4871} 1/28/2005
John, I agree as well with Lea. I'm using the same scanner with good results: are you using the bundled software that comes with it? In the past I did some experiment with Vuescan but it was quite disappointing. I'm currently using the Easy Scan tool, at 3200DPI, 2x sample, and all other parameters set to their default values. Just have a look at my portfolio, most of the images are scanned with it.
This is a fine picture, if you have a good negative, would it not be simplier to take it to a good photofinsher and have a print made the size you wish??
THanks for your comments. I haven't started to play with the cropping on this one yet, but I do like the ideas. My problem is that the 4x6 print for this frane has no grain. I scan the negative, and all the grain shows up. I would like to frame this shot and hang it on the wall, but do not want so much grain.
I agree with Lea; the idea is nice, lights are beatiful, grainy pictures aren't always bad, although maybe this time the scan must have revealed too much of it (and I can't understand why you got this result). Putting the lighthouse on the left third of the image, like Lea suggests, is definetively a good idea.
John, hope you don't mind, but I played with this a bit in PSE. 1st I selected and rotated the image to straighten the horizon. Then I cropped it to get the lighthouse out of dead center. While the photographic "rule of 3rds" can sometimes be broken to good effect, I think it is a useful rule in this type image. Last, I selected the sky and used the dust and scratch filter to eleminate some of the noise. Last, I sharpened very slightly. I love the light on your image!
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