Of course, #2 is too "modern" but if the scanner was able to do it, that means the you can at least reach something similar with your raw scan.but I tried everything and can't reach that skin tone (at least). What I would like to know, at this point, is which might be more true with that film.
#1, instead, has quite good green but the skin tone is too pale to me.
On the other hand, the noise is very high, since the software pushed the image to increase focus and contrast probably. I really like the skin tone, since it's actually very realistic. Now, as you can clearly see, #2 is like has been shot with an iPhone, in terms of colors and saturation and it's very good to me. Therefore, please see below 2 pictures, where #1 is from vueScan+pp in PS, and #2 is a straight scan using the Epson software, where the automatic exposure correction was enabled. But how can I know if that image is still related with the film I used or, since I'm moving levels/curves here and there, I'll get the same result with any film? The problem is, since the scan you get from vueScan is a flat RAW TIFF with zero white balance, I need to make several regulations in PS to get a quite good image. While they were good to have to ensure good results I also experimented. or two calibration frames with QP203 and an IT8.7 target to be able to create custom film profiles in Silverfast AI and Vuescan. So I can say "Ok, this is Kodak, this is Fuji, etc." Film review motion picture film for photography: Kodak Vision3 200T/250D/500T, Fuji Eterna 250D, Fuji Reala 500D. So, despite the quasi-zero editing I leave to my scanner - thanks to the several vueScan options you can set - I would like to have, after my post-production in Photoshop, a kind of "fidelity" to the film colors, if that is still possible. But still, I would like (at least) to keep the different features of any single film, so I can eventually choose which fits to me in terms of colors, grain and "general mood". Having said that, as we all know, even with analog - and especially with film scanning - there is always a subjective interpretation of colors left to the author. This is why, after waiting for years, I started shooting analog, since I wanted the film leading (or helping) my color interpretation. I always shot in digital, mostly preferring BW to color since I feel pretty uncomfortable to interpret it. However, I'm still quite inexpert to get the best results with this workflow.īefore I get the questions, please let me do a premise. It's my first color film roll ever, but I've already scanned a couple of BW 120 film rolls in the past. As per thread object, I'm trying to scan a Kodak ColorPlus 200 roll via Epson v600 scanner + VueScan software.