[Leica] Alien Skin Exposure

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

>This is a photograph that I already showed exactly as below here. I 
>shot it on Fuji NPS160, with professional development, but had it 
>scanned commerially on low res: all flattened out.
>
>http://tinyurl.com/y4o8pq
>or bigger:
>http://tinyurl.com/tbwgw
>
>
>
>This is the same shot after I let Alien Skin (and some minor 
>additional PS alterations) have a go at the original scan today:
>
>as big as above:
>http://tinyurl.com/y373rf
>
>!!! the big ones are in Adobe RGB !!!
>
>Isn't the 2nd one much more distinctive and doesn't it have a lot 
>more character? Or am I just overenthousiastic?
>
>Philippe

Hi Philippe,

The plug in just seems to increase contrast, throw a lot of the 
extended tonal range away and skew the colours to introduce a cast.

This is usually what I fight to get rid of when scanning.

Film, properly printed lets me get a huge tonal range and a good 
printer was always able to handle the colours properly. My scans, 
even with a fairly good scanner, are usually limited in comparison to 
projected slides or a good print.

I'm sorry, but the first image, while not necessarily optimized, 
allows all sorts of interpretations, but the second looks like a poor 
scan. It is a 'film' look, but one that mimics something I try to 
avoid - not always successfully.

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