Color photograpers of the past did editing in the darkroom instead, with settings to the diffrent colord lights and filters on the enlarger, dodging and burning diffrent parts of the image to bring out as much as possible of the negative, using diffrent papers, finding their style and so on, so if a film "purist" says you cant edit negatives they dont know what they are talking about. The digitalization of the scans is a process that will never be exactly the same form lab to lab aswell, and each technician will do his/her own "editing" for you, so if youre going for a specific look, of course you can edit the files! These are looking great btw!
I am curious at what quality your lab is sending you the scans. Do you always chose them to send scan in highest resolution/quality? Often labs offer low-medium or high res. So very keen on what’s needed as a basis Romeinen with. They look amazing
Thanks so much and stoked to hear I got you on the Portra 800 boat. If you have all the light available, you will save some money buying 400 instead :)
The original scans from kamerastore look great! When the scans are that good, I do the same as you. Just subtle edits to bring out the best in the image. Looks very good!
ok Joel your scans already look so damn good, it’s hard to believe they’re unedited... well done! btw what’s your scanning process or do you send them to a lab?
That's so nice to hear and glad you think so. At the moment sending to the lab in Finland (Kamerastore), but eventually want to build a darkroom at home.
Thank you so much for this video. I learned more about editing through your moment lesson and would encourage people to get it. I’m usually happy with my images without doing much with calibration but now I’m going to pay attention to it more and tweak it and see what the results would be. Blessings.
Thanks so much James! Really stoked to hear this and for sure do, when I started using the calibration tool it changed my editing for the better instantly. :)
be careful when using the Calibration tool, it will effect ALL the colors in your image, whereas HSL does the same but with the perceived colors So lets say youre editing red w/ calibration: all the colors that are partly made up by red pixels on the RGB sepctrum will be effected by changes, so basically all that isnt pure blues or greens (great tool for split-toning and other more dramatic/cinematic effects) With HSL it is what we percive in the image as red, so the red of the boat for example!
@@joelhypponen Yeah no probs, really enjoy your content, need to head up to northern Norway when the restrictions lift! I’m from the west coast of Sweden so it’s doable!
I think that editing film scans isn't that bad, back in the days photographers used to "edit" their negatives in the enlarger during the printing process.
Right, stoked to hear you think that :) I see both sides and different arguments purists have but still, if I can make the image better - I sure do it.
Color photograpers of the past did editing in the darkroom instead, with settings to the diffrent colord lights and filters on the enlarger, dodging and burning diffrent parts of the image to bring out as much as possible of the negative, using diffrent papers, finding their style and so on, so if a film "purist" says you cant edit negatives they dont know what they are talking about. The digitalization of the scans is a process that will never be exactly the same form lab to lab aswell, and each technician will do his/her own "editing" for you, so if youre going for a specific look, of course you can edit the files! These are looking great btw!
Joel, to be honest. Your scans without edit look amazing.
Thank you, I really appreciate you saying that. @kamerastore does a great job with processing :)
I am curious at what quality your lab is sending you the scans. Do you always chose them to send scan in highest resolution/quality? Often labs offer low-medium or high res. So very keen on what’s needed as a basis Romeinen with. They look amazing
Romeinen is autocorrect, meant to say “to work with “
Really cinematic. And those drone shots are Fire!! Love this one Joel.
Thank so much! Appreciate it and hope everything is well in California
Really nice photos! I would like to know what scanner your lab uses for these good scans.
Incredible edits and video man. You’ve convinced me to use portra 800 as my main stock haha
Thanks so much and stoked to hear I got you on the Portra 800 boat. If you have all the light available, you will save some money buying 400 instead :)
The original scans from kamerastore look great! When the scans are that good, I do the same as you. Just subtle edits to bring out the best in the image. Looks very good!
Thanks man! Really happy with @Kamerastore and nice to hear you are in the same boat with your editing process too
Thanks for the inspiration to shoot more film! I'm going to buy some portra 400 this week and try it for the first time :)
So amazing to hear this and my pleasure, thanks for watching! Hope you have a blast shooting :)
ok Joel your scans already look so damn good, it’s hard to believe they’re unedited... well done! btw what’s your scanning process or do you send them to a lab?
That's so nice to hear and glad you think so. At the moment sending to the lab in Finland (Kamerastore), but eventually want to build a darkroom at home.
@@joelhypponen do you have the lab scan photos for you?
Nice edit workflow! I also tweak my film images to better suit my style 🤟
Awesome! Thank you and glad you enjoyed. For each their own and no rules with editing :)
Thank you so much for this video. I learned more about editing through your moment lesson and would encourage people to get it. I’m usually happy with my images without doing much with calibration but now I’m going to pay attention to it more and tweak it and see what the results would be. Blessings.
Thanks so much James! Really stoked to hear this and for sure do, when I started using the calibration tool it changed my editing for the better instantly. :)
Are you editing jpgs or tifs?
be careful when using the Calibration tool, it will effect ALL the colors in your image, whereas HSL does the same but with the perceived colors
So lets say youre editing red w/ calibration: all the colors that are partly made up by red pixels on the RGB sepctrum will be effected by changes, so basically all that isnt pure blues or greens (great tool for split-toning and other more dramatic/cinematic effects)
With HSL it is what we percive in the image as red, so the red of the boat for example!
That's a great point and definitely should have explained how the calibration tool works. Which is exactly as you described. Thanks for watching!
@@joelhypponen Yeah no probs, really enjoy your content, need to head up to northern Norway when the restrictions lift! I’m from the west coast of Sweden so it’s doable!
😊nice
Thank you! Cheers!
I think that editing film scans isn't that bad, back in the days photographers used to "edit" their negatives in the enlarger during the printing process.
Right, stoked to hear you think that :) I see both sides and different arguments purists have but still, if I can make the image better - I sure do it.