Photos from Mongolia and China

Peter, true words, and kind words as well. Thanks. They've been here twice on holiday and those were such good two months. Hopefully, six months from now we'll be reunited again. Until then I'll go to Mongolia when I can, occupy myself with work and photography, and just live my life as good as I can. No use to swim against the flow, so I'll just let myself go with it. There's always calmer water somewhere ahead.
 
Scarpia said:
Beautiful shots Remy. I love the monochromes especially and prior to reading how you do it to get the "Leica glow" I thought to myself How does he get the Leica glow. Great work and best wishes on reuniting with your beautiful family ASAP.

Kurt, though I must admit that my Rokkor 40/2 has a special character, I think that the Leica Glow doesn't really exist. I think it has more to do with the richness of tones present in a shot (and pulled out during printing or scanning). When I scan my negs I usually scan them with a cut off histogram: a few points cut off on the left. This'll give rather rich blacks. I also cut off a few points on the right (white) hand side but this can be tricky as it could lead to blown highlights.

After scanning I work the scan in PaintShop Pro. I colorize the scan (when I want it to be monochrome), work the gamma, highlight/midtone/shadow levels, brightness/contrast levels, and hue/saturation/lightness levels. Then I resize the neg, fix any defects, use the curves tool if/when I think it's necessary, give the result a mind unsharp, and save the lot as 1% jpg.

This works for me. You may find it laborious, and indeed there could be faster or better methods. :)
 
Remy

It is always a pleasure to view beautiful shots of places I will probably never get to visit. Yours do give me a feel for the place. Here is hoping that your lovely family is reunited much sooner than later. The best of luck in that effort.

Bob
 
I still have two weeks of film to scan. I'll start now and post the nicest/best/most interesting ones when they become available.
 
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