As part of my continuing retrospective project, More Memories than Dreams, I have been digging through old piles of negatives. I came across a number of negatives marked “Reject. Scratches.” These negatives were never printed because of a defect caused my yours truly during development. The group of images hung together as a small project, but their inherent flaws kept them from being made into platinum prints.
After digitizing these defective negatives, I can remove the flaws with Lightroom and be able to use these once rejected negatives in a project.
This is not part of a project, but an image that was incredibly overexposed because, well, because sometimes I didn't do my Zone and Tone calculations properly. I salvaged this image by copying the negative with high dynamic range(!). The three copies of the negative were merged in Lightroom to get a usable image. Not a world beater, but it turned out pretty good.
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