Tamagawa Blimp
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An advertising blimp hawks its wares beyond the Tama River on a summer afternoon many years ago.
I’m finding that scanning old Kodachrome produces wildly fluctuating results. Sometimes the frames come out weak as water, sometimes they have dreadeful magenta or yellow casts (this one suffered from the howling magentas). Sometimes they’re nicely balanced and thick enough to do what you want with them. This shot was not one of those, and try as I might (well, for about 15 minutes as I recall), I couldn’t get the colours where they should be.
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Posted to Photographs • 2003.09.09 (Tue) • 16:47
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Posted by Paul Watson 2003.09.09, 19:57
You must have tried this but I will state the obvious just in case; Have you tried the AutoLevels in Photoshop or Fireworks? I find it corrects most colour problems from scans. I tried your shot and it does get rid of the magenta, though it is a bit bright afterwards.
Posted by Johan Svensson 2003.09.09, 20:38
I gave it a shot and played around a bit with the curves; pull the blue curve down a bit and it turns out OK. Took all of 15 seconds. :-)
Curves are what you want for color correction, not levels.
Posted by Johan Svensson 2003.09.09, 20:41
Hmm. Your MT appears to screw up the links in comments. If you use the internal Sanitize function for comments, make sure it says "a href" and not just "a" in the configuration, otherwise it won't allow the href attribute. Which is what gets chewed off.
Posted by jh 2003.09.09, 22:47
Johan —
The sanitize function is set correctly according the documentation, so this is a bit mysterious.
Here's a test link back to this page to see if it renders.
In Photoshop, by the way, I've been experimenting with a "Selective Color" adjustment layer recently instead of curves so still finding my way around there, I guess.
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