Re: "Best" color slide film/color neg

[Dan Culbertson <danculb@concentric.net>]

>>please post it.  Such a shame to see columbines crap out to pale purple
>>when I know the inks can represent the true sky blue color (this is a cyan
>>blue after all- what Epson inks are noted for!).
>
>Never had a problem with blue skies or deep blue sea - on the contrary,
>this slide film excells at blue and similar tones and epson faithfully
>prints them. Especially the cyans and greens are amazing. Wonderfull reds
>also, the slide film captures them with accuracy and epson has no problems
>there. I could never get a good real red from Reala, I mean red red, not
>magenta red.
>

The peculiar thing is I also never have any problem with the cyan/blue of
skies and seas, only the intense blues of wildflowers such as columbines
(and most others).  Maybe it is an optical thing -- could it be those
beautiful blues are really dead pale violet but something about vision
makes them glow?  Truly confusing.  I photographed some colubines against
an intense Colorado mountain sky.  The colors seemed near identical at the
site (which is why I shot the image).  Every scan and print though seems to
come out with a brilliant sky and pale violet columbines.  Mystery to me!
Maybe the slide film will help.

Dan Culbertson




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