Blue fog

pasvorto · Blue fog

I was on vacation last week. It was very foggy. I took a number of pictures of a rocky outcropping. Now the weirdness starts.

I got the prints back and they look fine (to a point). I scanned the negatives and they come out very blue. Through PS I can almost get it back. However, it still has a blue tint. I used a levels layer, then a saturation layer to lower stauration and increase brightness, then the brightness/contrast filter to increase brightness a bit followed by a little more contrast. It still has a light blue cast to it.

Funny thing is that not all the fog negatives scanned that way. Some came out the proper grey.

Any ideas on how to avoid this in the scanning process or how to PS it back to where it should be? Could all of this be avoided by shooting slides?

creators

I am not a film person, so the only advice I can offer is where I would engage digitally. When I am scanning all I want the scanner to do it give me as true a copy of the original as possible. As far as I know no scanner software exists that is a patch on the sophistication of PS, so I don't allow the scanner to mess with it as far as possible. So next is - can you put up an original scan to play with?

pasvorto

I would love too, but they are huge! TIFF files

creators

pasvorto

When I say huge, I mean 150MB+ ! I am scanning at 4800 dpi. Maybe that is way too much, but I figured I could always go smaller or crop.

I can save one as a JPG and upload it and see.

creators

Thanks for the chuckle! A little resizing, maybe, for our humble purposes might work.

pasvorto

here is a bird. Not fog, but the same problem

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hil26

Now thats the effect I get when trying photos in an aquarium, or below sea level glass windows. I have no idea - sorry

pasvorto

The funny thing is the prints are not blue. So I can only assume that

1) the negatives "changed" since they were originally printed

2) my scanner is having issues (although it is only with this batch of negatives)

3) God wants me to go digital.

creators

Rightho, here we go. I don't have a clue where you are at so I wont put up anything too long winded now.

All I've used here is a levels adjustment layer and used the eye droppers till I got something very close
to what my eye said was alright. As it happened it was still a smideon blue so I just reduced
the blue channel a touch.

pasvorto

Eyedropper... never thought of that. You are da man!

pasvorto

Although, the bird is very, very white in real life.

creators