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   pinkpix · 2011-10-07 19:16

   awesome shot, and awesome location. Love the colours in all the shots! Did you do some digital enhancing or is it all natural?

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   12_12 · 2011-10-07 20:56

   @pinkpix: I use a epson v500 to scan the photos. Some extra vividness might come because of my screen adjustment - others often have a bit less palely colours than I have, but I'm pretty happy with that but on some screens the photos look way to extreme. The other thing is that I cross processed the film (in that case a KODAK EBX in C41). I actually doubt that there is a sort of natural colour you get from scanning film (specially with xpros). PhotoLabs I tried rather did a really bad job or it looked similar to what I scanned (often a bit sharper), but I just tried it twice and I once got one of these "all-photos-in-small-sheets" because they didn't write my name on the envelope and I only wanted the negatives. A friend of mine tried printing photos from one and the same negatives, the differences where huge. The only pure analogue would probably be developing in a darkroom and there you can and do control the way the photo looks like as well. Its a quite difficult topic what is "real" and what not. I once talked to a guy in a photolab and he told me the same thing. He said that some labs just don't want to spend that much time making the photos look good by proper usage of the machines they have (actually scanners), what comes with the fact that its getting more expensive and therefore for a lot of labs less profitable. I don't know what the scanner I use does, because its very different to photoshop: before I got a photoscanner i tried to scan the photos with an normal scanner and then inverted it and tried to get rid of the orange mask(i found some tutorials on youtube). It can work but its very, very difficult and takes ages and the results are not very good...

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   pinkpix · 2011-10-08 12:38

   Crossing always gives that extra bit to the colours, too bad labs here aren't willing to do it.
   But you're right about the scanning and things being (not purely) analogue. I also scan my negatives with a flatbed scanner, but of course there is an autofix in it, making them instantly 'enhanced'. But your colours are so bright and vivid and I love the contrasts! Just keep up what you're doing :D