Atheist Poncho

Last weekend I was at my parents place for an Easter lunch with my parents and their parents. My grand parents from both sides of my family were there, so after lunch I asked everyone if I could take their portrait. My Mom is usually extremely reluctant to have her photo taken so I could not help getting a shot of her with her mouth open. I think it’s a great shot personally, kind of sums up her personality if you ask me. I had only one shot for each because I was shooting 4×5. My grand parents are all great people and took me cornering them after a meal pretty well. They’re all in really good health too. Makes me feel pretty good to have good genes.

Today I finally figured out how to scan 4×5 at home. I have a (very dusty and old) flatbed scanner that is capable of scanning medium format so I figured out how to lock the scanner tone and exposure and scanned one half of the negative then scanned the other half. Once I had my halves I reassembled them in photoshop with the always handy automated photomerge. The results are pretty great. There are no seams that I can find. The only issues are that the scanner is pretty shitty and it’s really dusty so the scans are not good enough for printing but most shots come out ok for the web. Colour really suffers but black and white is fine.

These shots were captured in colour then converted to black and white using photoshop.

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