| I'm working with a new drum scanner and I'm in the beginning stages of building a set of IT8 profiles that will convert a positive IT8 calibrated scan of a color negative that has been inverted in Photoshop (and thus is very cyan indeed) into a neutral balanced image.
Is this possible?
This is what I will be doing. Give me word if this just won't work and if I'm wasting my time.
1. 3 rolls of 6x7 film of a reflective IT8 scan under x lighting conditions with 3 stop bracket. 2. Develop 1 stop pull 1 stop normal 1 stop push. 3. For starters, drum scan the middle exposure and normal development as positive. 4. Invert in Photoshop. 5. Import and calibrate with Monaco.
The hope is that this RGB profile will correct for the histrogram and any color crossovers that I wouldn't be able to correct for via levels or negative "Color" layer overlay.
Hopefully one profile would also be able to correct for a series of different exposures via the same film (if everything else works.)
Anyone here who has experience in Color Neg profiling? I'm interested in this because I think this entire area of color theory has, in a way, been shoved to the way-side and under-investigated.
all the best, Walker Blackwell |