B&W bench in Austria

hello all!

I shot this with my F100 with a 28-80 on tmax 100. Developed it in Tmax and scanned it with a Epson 3170 PHOTO. I am upset that the grain on the seat is lost...but what do you think about the composition? I have the same shot zoomed out but it does not give me the same feeling.

Two things, your scanned image is soft, it needs to be white balanced a bit more to bring detail back out from the shadows. It could do with some unsharpen masking as well to bring back the detail of the wood grain.

This tight composition is good. However you are right, I think I would need to see more detail in the wood and the stone. Possibly lost in the scanning process - might be fixed by sharpening as Peter mentions. Is your Epson scanner a dedicated film scanner or flatbed? If flatbed, this could also be the problem as dedicated film only scanners tend to do a better job from 35mm film.

thanks for the comments, this is my first try with this tool.

Better, did you use the levels tool in photoshop, if so, use the eye dropper, look at the histogram (underexposed a bit), dark one (one on the left) and click in the wood at the front which is the darkest, and watch the histogram change.

With USM, you need to do about 200% on the posted image, remembering the resolution is low for web. What size is the fize you are have after you have scanned it in, what size/resolution are you scanning it in at ????

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Originally Posted by CB Photo

hello all!

I shot this with my F100 with a 28-80 on tmax 100. Developed it in Tmax and scanned it with a Epson 3170 PHOTO. I am upset that the grain on the seat is lost...but what do you think about the composition? I have the same shot zoomed out but it does not give me the same feeling.

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This is an interesting subject and a good composition. I would like to see it shot with a greater dof. The curve of the bench leads our eye into the photo but we find that part out of focus.