Grandpa Rose and Aleks
An experiment in Negative Film scanning using a HP 5400C flatbed scanner, two rulers and a flourescent worklight. Development done in Photoshop using this tutorial.
Taken with a Canon T50 film SLR, more than likely using a Tokina 28-200 lens, Kodak Gold ASA 400 film.
This is my Grandfather, a couple of months before he passed on, holding my son, Aleks who would have been almost a year old.
View all photos taken: Tuesday, 22nd April 2003, This photo: 12:58pm
I don't understand what you did but it's looks so AMAZING to me. Great work, David! Aleks is sooo CUTE here!!! (o^.^o)
Well to get all technical, I placed the strip of negatives (you know, from that film stuff people used to use years ago ;-) ) on the scanner glass, held it down with a pair of 30cm rulers, placed a foot long fluorescent work-light (the type used when you work on a car), over the top, then scanned a single frame at 2400dpi. After I had that, I had to invert the colours in photoshop and play with the individual colour channels levels to regain proper colour. It ended up a little stripy and somewhat grainy, but considering I don't have a proper negative scanner, it's not a bad effort.