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Exposure in film

Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 15:23:56 No.2928529 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2928549 >>2928559 >>2929122 >>2929556

Hey guys

So I'm new to film photography and editing as well. I recently took a few photos at sunset with the sun behind my subject. I've just got the film developed and I see that my subject is underexposed.

Is there a way to edit the exposure to bring back her colour and light etc.? Be it in Photoshop or Lightroom.

Any tips appreciated.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 15:44:59 No.2928549 Report

Quoted By: >>2928663

>>2928529

lift shadows with curves as much as you can, but you have no usable information there, its a flat shadow with almost no detail.

expression is bad, so it was a bad photo anyways.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 15:52:03 No.2928559 Report

Quoted By: >>2928663

>>2928529
1: Resize your shit

2: Film often has a lot more information than you see in a jpeg scan. Try rescanning or going back to your tif file to pull the exposure up. That said, in general err on the side of overexposing negative film and underexposing slide film.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 17:25:28 No.2928663 Report

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>>2928549
I dig the expression. But thanks I'll play with curves.

>>2928559
Unfortunately the place I get my stuff scanned only deliver in Jpegs. I asked today if I can get it in any different file format and they said no.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 17:29:48 No.2928668 Report

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>shooting into the sun
>shooting a backlit subject
>not using a fill flash or turning round
>not overexposing to compensate
>not scanning yourself
>not resizing your shit
You get what you deserve.

BurtGummer !!1cdp+8vuoOY

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BurtGummer !!1cdp+8vuoOY Mon 19 Sep 2016 17:53:33 No.2928698 Report

Quoted By: >>2928743 >>2928840

Lift the curves on the left - compensate for the loss of contrast with exposure adjustments (offset and gamma sliders)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 18:44:33 No.2928743 Report

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>>2928698
Yeah, op, this is probably the best you'll get since there's so much lost detail

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 20:29:42 No.2928840 Report

Quoted By: >>2928871

>>2928698
Thanks man I appreciate the help.

I'm going to look for a place to scan in better quality files.

What's a cheap scanner that I could get to do it myself?

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/\M8U5H !!zJbpV0948+w Mon 19 Sep 2016 21:04:40 No.2928866 Report

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There isn't much detail there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 21:08:38 No.2928871 Report

Quoted By: >>2929244 >>2929350

>>2928840
I hate to do this but, do you already own a DSLR?

DSLR scanning is one of the cheapest and high quality ways to scan 35mm negatives. Next up are dedicated scanners like the plustek and then second hand flatbeds.

All three can yield fairly usable results and will give you complete control over exposure when scanning. Most labs just accept the auto exposure value that the scanner outputs, which much like your camera's meter is usually wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 21:21:38 No.2928884 Report

Quoted By: >>2928886 >>2928887 >>2929247

best i could do for you op

just learn from this and shoot better next time

first few rolls of film arent usually great for most people

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 21:22:49 No.2928886 Report

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>>2928884
dropped pic

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 21:22:58 No.2928887 Report

Quoted By: >>2928888

>>2928884

>forgets image

Probably is for the best.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 21:24:21 No.2928888 Report

Quoted By: >>2928931 >>2928938

>>2928887
fuck off mate, better than the other abominations from the tripfags

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 22:20:28 No.2928931 Report

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>>2928888

Yeah, gotta love those green shadows you left.

Amateur.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 19 Sep 2016 22:28:11 No.2928938 Report

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>>2928888

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 02:12:38 No.2929110 Report

Quoted By: >>2929247

Pulling information out of shadows is always a fucking nightmare, avoid it like the plague. Good luck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 02:36:41 No.2929122 Report

Quoted By: >>2929247

>>2928529
When shooting with a backdrop like that, it's best to overexpose by about 1 to 1.5 stops. The camera's meter will be exposing for the bright light behind her.

Just as a general rule, overexposing color neg film is a good way to do it. It'll give you good exposure in the shadows and you won't clip the highlights. It's the opposite to how you shoot digital. On film it's really easy to lose detail in the shadows, where as on digital it's really easy to lose detail in the highlights

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 04:43:06 No.2929182 Report

Quoted By: >>2929247

Yeah if it's a color neg just expose for your shadows. It'll handle the highlights just fine. I always meter with a handheld meter. I place the meter under my subject's chin and take a reading.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 06:50:16 No.2929244 Report

Quoted By: >>2929350

>>2928871

Hey man.

How do you scan with a DSLR?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 06:52:40 No.2929247 Report

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>>2929182
>>2929122
>>2929110
>>2928938
>>2928884

Thanks guys. Yeah I'm definitely still learning. I'm used to digital when you can just look to see if you got the shot right or not.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 08:17:29 No.2929323 Report

Quoted By: >>2929365

> muh film dynamic range
kek

If you had shot with digital you could just use one slider to fix this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 08:48:41 No.2929350 Report

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>>2929244
>>2928871

Ok I googled it.

That looks like a mission and a half.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 09:02:33 No.2929365 Report

Quoted By: >>2929370 >>2929523 >>2929545

>>2929323
lol if he'd have shot this on digital the highlights would be clipped to shit

swings and roundabouts

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 09:05:01 No.2929370 Report

Quoted By: >>2929523

>>2929365
maybe if it was 2005 or a Canon

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 12:02:38 No.2929523 Report

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>>2929365
this>>2929370

get on with the times grandpa.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 12:29:55 No.2929545 Report

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>>2929365
This is just a quick exaggerated edit to demonstrate how far you can go with digital.
Also this was shot with a nx300 (old samsung camera + crop sensor) an a6000 or a nikon crop could yield even better results, not to mention a non canon FF camera.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 12:42:12 No.2929556 Report

Quoted By: >>2929580

>>2928529
Open in photoshop
press ctrl+alt+4
create a levels adjustment layer
ctrl+i
Use settings on the screenshot and work from there

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 13:10:38 No.2929577 Report

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hey
you guys are adjusting the jpg
how much detail can you get back if you scan it differently?

Edit the curves before you scan
would that help?

notop

notop Tue 20 Sep 2016 13:13:11 No.2929580 Report

Quoted By: >>2929588

>>2929556
pretty good guy
how would you compensate for the green tone?
would you even?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 13:37:09 No.2929588 Report

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>>2929580
Well you can do that in a gazillion ways in photoshop, easiest way would be with a selective color adjustment layer , choose the green color and move the magenta and yellow slider around.

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