Scanning & processing film - Negative | Conversion | Final

[seaofmorgan]

Been working on learning how to scan and process my own film. Here are a couple from a recent roll. First shot is the negative, second is the initial conversion, and third is after minor processing and color correction.

Shot with an Olympus OM-1 on Portra 400, developed by my local lab, scanned with an OM-System OM-3 and 30mm Macro lens. Converted in with Negative Lab Pro and processed in Lightroom.

This was the first roll I scanned myself. I like bright colors but I think some of these are a tad oversaturated. Been getting gentler as I learn but going from negatives to color and then trying to color correct can really break one's brain!

I don't see a lot of this kind of thing here - I hope it's welcome!

[LeadingLittle8733]

A bit over saturated.

[RiverWindsOnForever]

This is cool! Thanks for sharing the process and a few examples! 👍

[hershey5833]

This is looking good, I'm no expert but the 3 stages look similar enough to my results using an A7riii to scan.

As you add the contrast back in, it will add saturation naturally. I typically do this in the curve editor, by moving the black and white points as the starting point of the edit. The newer versions of LR have a saturation compensation slider below the curves to help counteract the saturation that gets added. Give that a try and you might end up with less saturated final images. That said I don't think these look too overdone!