The scanner arrives

If you're following the Ragged Trousered Photographer blog you'll know the scanner has arrived, a massive beast that takes up most of the desk...slow and noisy, it can do amazing scans like this one of Steve holy13nation, who had the honour of being the first medium format scan on the machine (the first scan, of a 35mm positive/slide was John, appropriately ;-):


(I strongly suggest you look at the Large or Original sizes over at Flickr - this small preview does not do it justice but I doubt people want the large picture breaking their Friends feeds - I wonder when LJ will join the 21st century with having themes bigger than 600-800 pixels wide?)

This makes me very happy - the frankly not very good prints I got at the time didn't really do the portraits justice and had a weird blue/green tint to them which I kind of liked, but doesn't appear on the cross-processed pictures if you scan them on the crappiest of scanners with no adjustment, or even on the picture before I corrected the white balance. Also seems to have been printed through a foggy haze. I can now scan them properly...and show how good they really are.

It always helps to have good subjects such as Steve too - that's half of it ;-)

The scanner arrives

If you're following the Ragged Trousered Photographer blog you'll know the scanner has arrived, a massive beast that takes up most of the desk...slow and noisy, it can do amazing scans like this one of Steve holy13nation, who had the honour of being the first medium format scan on the machine (the first scan, of a 35mm positive/slide was John, appropriately ;-):


(I strongly suggest you look at the Large or Original sizes over at Flickr - this small preview does not do it justice but I doubt people want the large picture breaking their Friends feeds - I wonder when LJ will join the 21st century with having themes bigger than 600-800 pixels wide?)

This makes me very happy - the frankly not very good prints I got at the time didn't really do the portraits justice and had a weird blue/green tint to them which I kind of liked, but doesn't appear on the cross-processed pictures if you scan them on the crappiest of scanners with no adjustment, or even on the picture before I corrected the white balance. Also seems to have been printed through a foggy haze. I can now scan them properly...and show how good they really are.

It always helps to have good subjects such as Steve too - that's half of it ;-)