Re: Casting Out the Blues . . . 
| November 30, 2020 01:47PM |
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John West Wrote (four years ago today):
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> Interesting that you noticed the blue cast. When
> I saw Guy's post the first thing that jumped out
> at me is I need to go back and fix that. A lot of
> the old Kodachrome scans with a blue cast but
> I've gotten so used to it sometimes I just don't
> see it.
I just noticed yesterday that you did go back and fix it, John -
Apparently from the "last edited" date of 12/11/2016 for the photo on your site at [chasingtrains.smugmug.com] it took you about two weeks to get around to fixing it. Better late than never. It's weird how some photos are affected so much by this blue-tint disease and some don't seem affected at all — like the other shots of #488 you got on 12/20/1961 that don't have a lot of aluminium paint in them or snow in shadows reflecting the sky that all look really nice.
In the course of scanning some slides for Olaf Rasmussen during the past several days I ran into this problem again, a couple of times with sky reflecting from rivers and a couple of times with aluminium paint on bridges and trestles, and I found that after correcting over-all as best I could with PhotoShop's "Levels" tool that I could get rid of the worst of the blue by "Adjusting Color" and using "Less Saturation" several times after selecting just the problem area to get it down to a gray tone, which is close enough to aluminium for government work.
After working on a couple of Olaf's photos, I remembered this one that you took at Aztec. So just for comparison here are: at upper left your original scan from 2009 as copied by Guy in the root post above, at upper right your modification, at lower left my quick-and-dirty "levels" fix from the second post above, and then at lower right today's further tweak in which the shadowed snow and the roof of the quonset hut were selected and then "unsaturated" to get rid of the blue:
At least there's one thing to be thankful for — I was able to resist "turning on" #488's headlight.
Sorry, 'bout that — several neighbors have hung up Christmas lights, so I decided to get with the spirit of the season . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/30/2020 05:46PM by Russo Loco.
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> Interesting that you noticed the blue cast. When
> I saw Guy's post the first thing that jumped out
> at me is I need to go back and fix that. A lot of
> the old Kodachrome scans with a blue cast but
> I've gotten so used to it sometimes I just don't
> see it.
I just noticed yesterday that you did go back and fix it, John -
Apparently from the "last edited" date of 12/11/2016 for the photo on your site at [chasingtrains.smugmug.com] it took you about two weeks to get around to fixing it. Better late than never. It's weird how some photos are affected so much by this blue-tint disease and some don't seem affected at all — like the other shots of #488 you got on 12/20/1961 that don't have a lot of aluminium paint in them or snow in shadows reflecting the sky that all look really nice.
In the course of scanning some slides for Olaf Rasmussen during the past several days I ran into this problem again, a couple of times with sky reflecting from rivers and a couple of times with aluminium paint on bridges and trestles, and I found that after correcting over-all as best I could with PhotoShop's "Levels" tool that I could get rid of the worst of the blue by "Adjusting Color" and using "Less Saturation" several times after selecting just the problem area to get it down to a gray tone, which is close enough to aluminium for government work.
After working on a couple of Olaf's photos, I remembered this one that you took at Aztec. So just for comparison here are: at upper left your original scan from 2009 as copied by Guy in the root post above, at upper right your modification, at lower left my quick-and-dirty "levels" fix from the second post above, and then at lower right today's further tweak in which the shadowed snow and the roof of the quonset hut were selected and then "unsaturated" to get rid of the blue:
Sorry, 'bout that — several neighbors have hung up Christmas lights, so I decided to get with the spirit of the season . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/30/2020 05:46PM by Russo Loco.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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