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I put the negs on a lightbox with some card taped to it to keep them flat, and shoot them almost filling the frame with a dslr + old macro lens on a tripod.
Then I invert the curves in lightroom, sharpen them a bit, generally boost the contrast, and fine tune the color balance (manually or with the eye dropper on something grey). I like to take a break between choosing what to keep and finishing them up so I sometimes export them as tiffs after inverting the curves so that all the sliders and everything aren't backwards...
On these I boosted the saturation a bit too but I didn't do much else. I edit the shit out of some things tho.
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Sorry if I have asked this before, but how do you go about scanning these?
Still struggling to get good scans from Portra negs, there's no punch and the colours are off.
Tried to find useful info on this and heard that it may indeed be the case that Plustec / QUATO scanners don't handle this particular film well, while things are totally fine with Epson.
Doesn't make sense to me but hey.. trawling through the archives right now, and finding the only Portra I have scanned at home with great (and Portra typical) colours is the 800.