This film really does a good job of highlighting where I need improvement on a technical level. Really happy with both of these overall, but most of the rest of these rolls were overexposed and really suffered as a result. My scanning and negative inversion needs work too, getting these shots to a place where I was happy with them was really a struggle. I refuse to automate or pay for adobe, so maybe that's on me, but I really desire a more fundamental understanding of the systems at play here and that means I've gotta suffer through 30 bucks of toast film for two shots I'd hang on my wall. Colour is a weird beast, and not intuitive in the slightest, and so I'll keep at grinding away.
First things first, I need to make a standardized sheet to figure out lens distortion so I can properly correct before stitching these photos together. 35mm is pretty good looking scanned on an APSC sensor, but these 120 negatives are too beautiful to squander and I'd love to be able to get true, honest to god 1:1 replication, but I've found that the distortion present in this lens really shows at that magnification, so 6 shots at 1:1.5 will have to do for now.
I'm getting better at correcting colour, but I always feel like I'm mucking up what the film itself is giving me, that said though- its just a negative. A starting point. Moving from black and white to colour is certainly one hell of a learning curve.
Feel free to make comments or insights based on what you can see here- please, I need some thoughtful analysis!
Edit: looks like one of these photos is outright refusing to post for some reason. Ah well, is what it is I suppose. The one that did post is the one I like more, anyways 😅