BW Negative conversion

Hi all,

I am attaching a nef of a BW negative I’ve shot and developed. I think the film is a HP5 (don’t let me go and take the strip please :P, I need to work on my archival process). It was developed in rodinal 1:50.

I realise this play is a bit different from what you have used to see here but I would like to improve my scanning workflow.

Thanks!!!

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The question is when :rofl: :upside_down_face:
It’s comforting that others are as well forgetting things from time to time. :blush:

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:stuck_out_tongue: It’s there now! Thanks

It’s a different image - a child with a sword.

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thank you now it’s fixed.

Ok, a first quick render:


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Or maybe a softer sepia version

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I don’t feel I have have done a great job here as the concept was a first for me. I decided to ignore negadoctor and instead used tone curve to invert my image and a second instance of tone curve to improve the contrast using an s curve approach. I feel there are many tricks I would want to work out if this was to become a standard workflow for me.
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