c41 noob: how do these look?

[NukePity]

Latest batch here. Still not 100% satisfied. Had to do some color balancing in PS, mostly decreasing cyan & blue. Anyways, maybe someone can tell me how far from ideal these pics are, given the film (portra400) and lighting conditions. In other words, is there still room for improvement, or am I doing it about right?

[this is my 7th development batch from a tetenal kit mixed about 3 weeks ago that has already processed about 11 rolls.]

http://imgur.com/a/GXVSO

 

[bhop73]

They look fine to me. The "new" portras seem to scan with greenish tints for me too. I always have to do a lot of color correction to make them look like I want, which may or may not be how portra is "supposed to" look.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Looks like film to me. Here is no WB in PS, you do WB in developing. If film was developed in the right temperature and for correct time it is film WB. Trying to make film looks like digital in PS will make it ugly.

 

[x-ray]

There's no way to white balance in processing. White balance is either done in the scanning software depending on the software or photoshop or proprietary software like my Fuji Lanovia Quattro had. Color temperature of light varies all day long outside and lights inside vary all over the place. KoFe you told me you worked on a motion picture film crew in Russia and a TV news crew in Canada. With motion picture you shoot a color chart so the lab can correct back to a standard when it's transferred or printed. In the old days when we shot commercials on 35mm film we had a one light work print made to edit to. One light work prints had no exposure or color corrections done and it looked like crap but was just a rough to edit.

With video you balance to a white card or in the case of really high quality video you shoot a color chart like in film. This is because light sources vary in temperature all over the place.

You start with correct temperatures and follow recommended times, temps and capacities. Going outside the recommendations can cause all kinds of color shifts including crossover which is nearly impossible to correct. If you're not too critical then you might get away with it. However it still baffles me why people thrash about and fuss over their lenses and then use outdated film in old over used chemistry and then scan on a cheapo scanner with terrible optics. To each their own.