trainrider47 Wrote:
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> On the dark slides try doing several scans
> at different exposures, with up to three stops
> over-exposure, then use an HDR program to
> combine them. That may work better than
> shadow recovery in Elements.
Thanks, Michael -
In one of my ex-Sperry-ments I tried scanning once for the sky and once for the foreground, cutting the sky out of the latter and pasting it on top of the former. This almost worked, but there were too many areas of obvious overlap and fringes. I am contemplating another try, being more careful where I blend the two exposures, but an HDR program would probably work even better - can you recommend a good one?
Meanwhile, FYI (and Jim's), here is the starting point for my latest effort
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Note that I had previously determined that changing the White Point to zero avoided 'blowing out' the clouds, so here I am playing with the Black Point and Brightness in order to pick up a little more of the shadow detail - especially on the pilot and front coupler. (So far, so good
... ) I've been saving these scans as 48-bit .tif files, and not converting them to 24-bits in Elements until done with shadow enhancement to minimize the generated noise.
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Roosso
p.s. One of the really great features of VueScan is that once you have scanned a slide it maintains the Raw data in memory until cleared or turned off, so you can save one version, tweak the parameters, and save another version without having to actually re-scan the slide each time.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/2015 01:06PM by Russo Loco.