Taking photos of old printed photos, MFD and what lens to use?
When you open the files in your RAW processor (I'll assume adobe camera RAW or Lightroom for now as it's popular, but you can figure equivalent settings in other programs), do the flat fielding if you're doing that. Then pull up the image of your Kodak gray card and change the profile to either "Adobe Neutral" or "Camera Neutral" this is a flatter profile and good for doing reproductions, it will make landscapes and portraits look blah but it's more accurate for reproducing flat prints). White balance on the gray card patch, the read the brightens of the gray patch adjust it so that the Lab value of it is 50 (right click on the histogram to change from RGB to LAB values). Sync those settings to the images of the photos you took (or save as a preset and apply them)... you may want to look at those setting on the first image and see if you need to adjust the white/black sliders or add any sharpening before syncing across all of them).
ApatheticAbsurdist
3 years ago
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