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    8th Avenue and 58th Street. Under-exposed, and neither the girl or the poster are in focus.

    1. Barry Yanowitz 13 months ago | reply

      i find it difficult to get spontaneous shots like this in focus manually also. i find that i usually have to prefocus first and wait for someone to walk into the sweet spot.

    2. Ed Brydon 13 months ago | reply

      Yeah, that's what I was trying to do but... Also, there's a ton of crud on some of these. I hand cut them then scanned them myself.

    3. jillysp 13 months ago | reply

      It looks like there are parts of the frame that are in focus -- like the facebook URL? I find that I have to liberally apply either an unsharp mask with my scanner or bump the sharpness up in lightroom on a lot of film shots -- typically because of how the scanners calibrate the photos. Just a thought, too! (It took me a long time to realize that, but then again, a lot of my shots are not in focus too.)

    4. HaIogen 13 months ago | reply

      superb timing, it's like they are looking at each other

    5. AGrinberg 13 months ago | reply

      With a biting shot like this, it doesn't matter that it is not in perfect focus. Great moment!

    6. TIBBA69 13 months ago | reply

      nice compo!

    7. Ed Brydon 13 months ago | reply

      Jill, thanks for the tip here and via Twitter. I had left my unsharp mask on but nothing else when scanning and did not apply anything else in LR. Also, canned at 9600dpi - might as well start out big and let her run. I am generally sharpening less these days for web bc the Flickr algorithm especially seems to really bump up the sharpness to the point it is overdone. I'd love to hear Shawn's pint of view as we have the same scanner.
      Thanks. This poster caught my eye and I thought it might make a good juxtaposition photo but I got lucky with the girl almost mirroring the poster-girl's posture. Funny, with film you can't chimp so I didn't know but I felt like I had got something so left the spot after that one go.

    8. jillysp 13 months ago | reply

      the concept of the 'unsharp mask' first confused the heck out of me when i got my scanner the first time. i'm not sure what scanner model you use, but i have an epson v500 and am usually pretty happy with the results (when i go to the bother of actually scanning myself, usually just let the developer do it).

      however, like shawn said on twitter, 35mm scans can be difficult to get to lay really really flat which does impact the sharpness quite a lot. regarding the unsharp mask settings, your scanning software should have some sort of threshold settings -- e.g. apply greater or lesser unsharp masking to an image in post. i have played around with it A LOT and even find that it can vary based on the film type you're scanning, whether negative or slide film.

      this is starting to get rambling, but basically my point is this: for me, i had to experiment a lot with the settings in order to get results i like. and even then, i still sharpen in LR until it's according to my taste, and no one can blame you for that. :) bottom line, now i pay someone to scan everything for me, so you probably shouldn't listen to me anyway, haha.

    9. zlandr 13 months ago | reply

      nice mirroring!

    10. Spleen* 13 months ago | reply

      Very nice scene :)

    11. Airicsson 12 months ago | reply

      Well seen!

    12. Ed Brydon 12 months ago | reply

      Thanks very peeps!

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