Llangrannog on film
Posted 02/09/2021 - 21:28 - Helpful Comment
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Great feeling to these Gareth, especially the more contrasty ones. 4 is the special one for me - love the well-seperated silhouettes (all the lonely people...) lost in the greyness of it all. Ah yes, and the beautiful grain in the sky!
Posted 02/09/2021 - 21:38 - Helpful Comment
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These brought back some great memories for me. I was at St David's University College, Lampeter in the early 70s and used to visit Llangrannog regularly. Thanks for posting.
Posted 03/09/2021 - 14:58
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Thanks both, the one with the people in feature my sons and my daughter as well as some of our friends kids!
Update on the workflow!
So a while ago on eBay I bought a PlusTek OpticFilm 7200 scanner on a whim. I saw the results people were getting with the newer 8200 model but this delivered was £37! It came with the SilverFast 6 disk but it was registered to someone else and failed to play ball so I looked at VueScan but that would of added £70 to the overall cost. Fast forward a week and I decided to ask the seller if they could unlink the software to their account so I could then access the software and try it out. Luckily for me the seller was more than happy to and after they'd called SilverFast in Germany, the serial number was released and I could then install it my end. The software I was unsure would work as I'm Win 10 64 bit and the software said ME, 2000, Vista etc so I was dubious it'd work but I was pleasantly surprised when it fired up! Software screen says I'm version 6.4.1.
Anyway, still playing with the interface but I've managed to do a scan and it scans as a TIFF file. Played with the 7200 dpi and the 9600 dpi but found the 7200 to be sharper.
Here's my first scan, scanner was set to -2 density and some basic edits made in Lightroom. The file size measures 7641x5106
Llangrannog by Gareth Williams, on Flickr
For less than £40, to produce files like this I can edit and be the size they are, I'm well happy!
Update on the workflow!
So a while ago on eBay I bought a PlusTek OpticFilm 7200 scanner on a whim. I saw the results people were getting with the newer 8200 model but this delivered was £37! It came with the SilverFast 6 disk but it was registered to someone else and failed to play ball so I looked at VueScan but that would of added £70 to the overall cost. Fast forward a week and I decided to ask the seller if they could unlink the software to their account so I could then access the software and try it out. Luckily for me the seller was more than happy to and after they'd called SilverFast in Germany, the serial number was released and I could then install it my end. The software I was unsure would work as I'm Win 10 64 bit and the software said ME, 2000, Vista etc so I was dubious it'd work but I was pleasantly surprised when it fired up! Software screen says I'm version 6.4.1.
Anyway, still playing with the interface but I've managed to do a scan and it scans as a TIFF file. Played with the 7200 dpi and the 9600 dpi but found the 7200 to be sharper.
Here's my first scan, scanner was set to -2 density and some basic edits made in Lightroom. The file size measures 7641x5106
Llangrannog by Gareth Williams, on Flickr
For less than £40, to produce files like this I can edit and be the size they are, I'm well happy!
Gareth Williams ARPS
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Posted 03/09/2021 - 15:15 - Helpful Comment
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For me, it's no. 1 rather than 2 or 5 because of the person in the water - about to be eaten by approaching open-jawed monster??
But the overall winner is no. 4. Human shapes standing in water - it has a touch of Antony Gormley about it.
Enjoy your scanner - just don't get lost in all that processing and forget your kids (and wife) !
Steve
But the overall winner is no. 4. Human shapes standing in water - it has a touch of Antony Gormley about it.
Enjoy your scanner - just don't get lost in all that processing and forget your kids (and wife) !
Steve
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