AussieAMEgirl From Australia, joined Apr 2005, 61 posts, RR: 1 Posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 2604 times:
Gday,
Yeah here's another newbie posting the same sort of question thats probably been answered millions of times before, HOWEVER! I have taken many an air to air shot in my past (mainly the warbirds I have been involved with), and have decided that some of them might be good enough to share. Here I encounter drama's! I have tried a myriad of different dpi settings and other setting combinations on my scanner, I have run them through Paint Shop Pro and Paint Shop Pro Studio and removed as many scratches and the like as I can, but they NEVER seem to come up as nice as everyone elses scanned pics, which I must say look like the photo! Rather than a grainy thing I keep getting.
I have been on Google many times to find answers as well...and any sort of advice or a point in the right direction would be FANTASTIC!! Thanks!
Here are some my pictures so you can see what I mean:
Glennstewart From Australia, joined Jun 2003, 1124 posts, RR: 56 Reply 4, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2378 times:
Andrea,
First of all welcome! Where in Australia are you from?
I'll be sure to check these shots out when I get home from work. I'll be happy to give you some advice, as most of the friendly photographers on this forum will.
Glenn Stewart
(Sydney, Australia)
Respected users.... If my replies are useful, then by all means...
AussieAMEgirl From Australia, joined Apr 2005, 61 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 2309 times:
Gday Glenn,
I am in sunny (since it NEVER rains here) Oakey Queensland.
Any advice especially about the scanning and cleaning up processes would be most helpful! Being a noob to submitting my pictures here. As to where they are taken and camera angle and all that, well its a bit harder when you are taking air to air stuff to get the shot just right, a lot of it as I mentioned seems to be pure a@@...and getting it right at the right moment!
Malandan From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 380 posts, RR: 16 Reply 6, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 2285 times:
Andrea,
Since the majority of my A.net photos are oldies from scanned negatives, there are a couple of comments I would make.
Firstly you should scan from the negatives; scanning prints reduces the quality of the scanned image noticeably.
You will also require a fairly good quality scanner, the best you can afford. I bought an Epson Perfection 3170 Photo and have no regrets.
Lastly, always scan at a high resolution, preferably the highest achievable with the scanner you have or end up with.
When starting out, I scanned in the region of 400 / 600 dpi. If you are pressed for time this cuts down the processing time, but the quality will not be that good, and although from a start of 75% rejections, I improved to 75% acceptance, I rejected many at the processing stage. I now scan at 1200 dpi, which is a slow and painful process, (I often leave the scanner to plod on while I do other things!) but it will bring out the best in a negative and I have now been able to relook at some negatives I gave up on in the past.
Also I believe it is not possible, no matter how good you are at processing to achieve the quality of the latest DLSR's, but screeners make allowances to a certain extent for both age (the image, not yours!) and the fact that the photos are from film.
I will leave it to Glenn to give you specific processing advice, but there is a bit of a learning curve and I have to say that immediate success is unlikely.
Don't give up easily. I have been tempted to a couple of times but with the encouragement of screeners in particular I am ploughing on. Also much good advice from experienced uploaders is available in the forum, and feel free to contact me if you feel I may be of help.
Love the pictures. Hope to be back in your neck-of-the-woods sometime!
Malcolm.
My interest lies in the future as I am going to spend the rest of my life there!
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