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Turbulence

Searching for calmer seas in today’s turbulent world . . .

This photo was taken by a Zenza Bronica S2 medium format film camera with a Nikkor-H 1:3.5 f=5 cm lens and Kowa L39•3C(UV) ø67 filter using Kodak Portra 160 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
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raingirl said:

Yes, calmer seas would be nice - except for your photos. This is so very gorgeous.

I thought maybe it was a film image when I first saw it. I don't know how I can tell, but even once film images are translated to a screen, they have a different feel to them. (I'm not always right, but often have a good sense about it.) Thank you for continuing to use film - it really is the best.
4 weeks ago

Scott Holcomb replied to raingirl:

I have a freezer full of film and a dozen different medium format film cameras.
I cannot succumb to digital cameras quite yet . . .
4 weeks ago

Annemarie said:

wonderful
Have a nice day my friend!
4 weeks ago ( translate )

Scott Holcomb replied to Annemarie:

I will stay out of this water!
4 weeks ago

William Sutherland said:

Outstanding shot!
4 weeks ago

Scott Holcomb replied to William Sutherland:

It was a superb day!
4 weeks ago ( translate )

Patrick Brandy said:

Excellente photo bonne journée.
4 weeks ago ( translate )

Scott Holcomb replied to Patrick Brandy:

Thanks!
4 weeks ago

raingirl replied to Scott Holcomb:

good man!

Do you have a local place that develops your film, or do you do that also?
3 weeks ago

Scott Holcomb replied to raingirl:

Oscar’s Photo Lab develops my film in San Francisco.
I scan the negatives and do the digital post processing
3 weeks ago

raingirl replied to Scott Holcomb:

Oh, nice to know about that place. I have a nephew in a suburb of S.F. that is getting interested in cameras. I'll let him know about Oscar's.
We have Blue Moon Camera in a suburb here in Portland, Oregon.

I used to do a small amount of b&w film processing, but I never liked it. Partly I was always scared I would mess up and all would be lost. Printing you can re-do, of course, and that was always the fun part. I never even tried color film processing.

Do you have a setting you often use for the scanning? I find the settings in the Epson V600 to be a bit confusing sometimes as they seem to be about the whole scan bed, so when I am scanning just one film strip I don't understand what resolution etc would be best.
3 weeks ago

Scott Holcomb replied to raingirl:

I scan the negatives at 3200dpi and do not use the Epson software directly. The Epson drivers are imbedded in the Image Capture program on my MacPro. All adjustments are performed in Photoshop such as cleanup, contrast and color adjustments. The final process is to embed exif data into the edited jpeg using a third party application. I spend at least 30 - 40 minutes of post processing on each photo that I publish.
3 weeks ago

raingirl replied to Scott Holcomb:

Thank you so much, Scott. I also don't use the Epson software directly, but what dpi to use has been confusing for me.
30-40 minutes post processing? You are fast!
2 weeks ago