Editing & Framing

My intention for this project was to print in the darkroom, however a lot of my negatives where either really dark or light due to exposure issues, so I decided that I would scan my negatives in, as printing in the darkroom would be both costly and time consuming.

Scanning my negatives in was straight forward. I had done this many times before and new what I would have to do, this also meant that I could get on top of my blog while I scanned the negatives in. I wasn't sure what images I was going to use, so I made sure that every image I scanned had a high PPI, however this then meant that it would take a while to scan. 

After my images where scanned in the next step was to edit them. I didn't really want to do much to them apart from get the exposure correct, this I did by using the curve tool. I had to do this with the majority of my images, just to make sure that they all had the same exposure and that they worked together both in pairs but also as a set.  

Another main part of the editing process was to spot heal my images. This was to get rid of any dust that was created from scanning the images, but also any scratches or blemishes on the negatives themselves.  This was time consuming, but I think that it is really important part because it does make the images look a lot cleaner and crisp. 

Framing:

Framing the images was as simple as it’s always been. I just created a page on Photoshop the same size as I wanted my prints, then used the rulers to create a guide what I then dropped my images into. As I wanted two images per page and the images where square this meant that I had to have a big boarder around the images. But I kind of like this so I’m not bothered.