Blast From the past: Images scanned from old slides/negs

[davequick]

I bought a Nikon Coolscan V ED last October/November and have been trolling through 7,000+ rolls of film I've moved cross country like 4 times now in a total of 8 moving boxes.

A majority of these are sports images that I liked. I've only posted a (VERY) small portion of the images I've scanned in so far. I'm in the process of cleaning up/adjusting color/contrast for images I really like. I've scanned ~3000 frames and have less than ~200 more to

So - my takaway from the whole experience.

1. Each scan takes 50MB for B&W, or 100MB for TIFF - I scan, tweak with layers in photoshop, archive the tiff to DVD, convert to JPG (<30MB per image at 100% quality progressive). This still takes a LOT of storage - especially as you're scanning.

2. Even of the 3k images I scanned I really , really like less than 200 of them to look at and go "woww that's a great image" - the rest are more for the fact that they are still sellable or they have a great memory of the day, the event, etc.

3. Digital ICE (technology that removes dust during scan) is AWESOME. It saves so much time and does a great job. Unfortunately because of the technology it uses it only works on films with multiple emulsion layers... theis means you're out of luck for plain old black and white - it only works on color negative and slide films.

4. Photoshop patch tool rocks for filling in dust on black and white images.

To make this relevant to this forum - In the first small batch of images I've edited, one of the events was the 1991 US Olympic Festival in LA. This is a competition held in off years of the world olympics (or at least it was - don't know if this is even held anymore) - this helped determine who would go to the olympics for the US.

Anyway - here are a couple pictures from that event:
High Jump - F4, 600mm f4.0


Shotput- F4, 600mm f/4.0


Swimming - F4, 400mm f/2.8


There are others from this set here:
http://flickr.com/photos/threefourfive/sets/435963/

Since I don't want to post old school photos to a digital photography forum if it's not of interest to anyone - does film -> scan -> digital darkroom work qualify as dphoto.us worhty even if it's 10 years old? Should I post other sports related photos here from my scans?

-dq

[Steve Mitchell]

Hi Dave. Thanks for your post and welcome to Dphoto. Thanks for joining, and h&#^ yea your photos are welcome. Regardless of the camera, Dphoto is about the image first. You've introduced yourself with some fine images, and look forward to seeing many more.

It's not the equipment that makes the photogapher. It's the eye and the sense of the moment.

[jliechty]

Until earlier this year, I was a film > scanner > Photoshop guy, and they didn't seem to mind having me around. Now I shoot a DSLR sometimes and film other times depending on the occasion, and still scan the film to post on occasion. Welcome to the site, hope you have a great time here. Great pictures, by the way.

[Heat#33]

Steve is correct, I have to sometimes tell myself that fact too.There a artical on Rob Galbraith .com about Alex Mojoli a Magnum Photo's Photographer who covera conflicts with Point and Shoot compact digital camers.

[gparr]

Dave,
Welcome to dphoto. Nice shots. Keep posting.
Gary