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Re: [APML] PPF film
At 09:44 AM 2/8/2002 -0500, DPMESSIER@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 2/8/02 9:35:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, matt@starmatt.com writes:
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>>I removed the green fog in Photoshop with one masked curves layer. I painted the mask by hand. This image has 14 layers total, which I think is the most I've used for any image. Do you think most astrophotographers would have given up on this frame?
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>Wow! I see what you mean. How was the grain on that? Did you have a hard time suppressing it?
PPF has always been grainy, as you'd expect for a 400 speed film. This exposure was no different. I used a slight amount of bgsmooth.
>The last time I tried PPF hypered, I ended up just throwing the negatives away. They had extreme grain and very uneven recording. Some areas just seemed to be dead.
Different batches of PPF must be deteriorating at differing rates, depending in large part on how they have been stored.
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