C41 question

[aad]

Hi-I developed 3 rolls of film last night-2 at home and one roll of Reala that I had done at the WalMart (I was there!).

Unlike my other Reala pix, these looked awful-muddy colors, looked like the exposure was off in both directions, just unpleasant.

I know prints can be nasty when done wrong, but these were negs only scanned at home as usual.

Will improper handling of C41 cause the negatives to look bad?

Thanks.

 

[lZr]

C41 is full time machine job, so not easy to answer the question

 

[Finder]

Can you post an image so we can see? Can you also scan the image as a positive so we can see what the negs look like?

 

[aad]

What I'm used to-

What I just got

 

[Finder]

All I can say without seeing the negs is that you underexposed. That would account for the smokey shadows and the washed out highlights - the printing/scanning exposure would try to compensate for the thin neg density. Increase the printing/scanning exposure and the colors will be more vivid, but the image will be dark.