s16mm Test Negative Processing

Wednesday, December 09, 2009
This is from a core Justin lent. Over the past month I have gone back to work on the colour neg processing. Colour negatives require a much wider range of process settings than other material. We have been working on stabilizing the colours and recovering them accurately.

These frames are ½ resolution images (if you select :original size) from the film sequence.
A single set of parameters was used to processing the whole film although part of it was in bright daylight and part was in a reception room (I assume at night).

The camera work was good so that it was possible to get non-blurred frame grabs.

I suspect some of the oranges are suppose to be redder but the goal here was to get the colours stable so that any tweaking would be predictable.
In fact I think the saturation is too high on all of the original images – life is just not that colourful. But the film of our lives can be whatever we want (and can afford).

If these frames were used to print 4 by 6 photos I would suggest some mild sharpening.

Thursday, December 10, 2009
Well the computer ran all night and re-processed the RAW files.
This resulted in the 16mm_JLNeg_xxxxxxB.jpg version of the images beside the previous pass
As you can see the a) The chroma has been reduce, colours slightly shifted, and the darks dimmed a bit.
The B version are not as bright and colourful as the first but are moving towards reality.

In particular the night shot at the food table looks a lot better.

It is with remembering, the same processing setting were use for all frames, no Notching was done from the wedding to the reception.
I have no desire to be in the editing business.