My usual workflow for photos has been: But as I’ve started to spend more time with those negatives in the darkroom I’ve noticed something. The prints I make are very different from the scanned negative. Here’s a recent negative: It’s nice enough. But when I followed my normal process for making a split-grade print in…
What is the ‘right’ way to scan a negative? The answer, from what I can see, is that there isn’t one.