[filmscanners] Re: Scanning a foggy image

["Bob Frost" <bob@frost.name>]

Brian,

The different settings in Vuescan can have an enormous effect on the image.
I always save the raw scan, and then process it in Vuescan in six different
ways - it only takes a few minutes - and then choose which is best.

I use Whitebalance, Neutral, and None, with both the Film and Image
settings. Try some of these if you haven't done so already; Neutral or None
may give you a better result than correction for WhiteBalance.

With the Films setting you include color correction for the type of film you
select so that the imagae will look more like the original; with the Image
setting, you don't correct for film type so the image will look more like
the screen.

Bob Frost.




On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 08:43:07PM -0400, Brian wrote:

>     OK, let me ask a question. I have a rather nice slide of a boat dock
> with some small boats moored which I took up in Maine. There was a slight
> fog/mist in the air when I took the shot. A print made from the slide
> captures the foggy nature of the composition nicely. However, when I scan
it
> (Nikon Coolscan 4000) using ViewScan, the scanner/software seems to
> interpret the fog as noise(??) and produces a scan with more clarity than
> the original image has.
>     My question is, how do you scan slides or negatives which are somewhat
> soft with fog or mist and retain the look of the original scene? Failing a
> scanning solution, is there a tweak I can do in Photoshop to get the
> appearance back? I've been doing this for about a year so I'm not real
> experienced by I have learned quite a bit reading the emails on this
group.
>


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