It's late (or early) light, very yellow, lower color temperature. The shade is very cool, higher color temperature. This is where digital voodoo comes in handy
I suspect that the lab just doesn't fool around making any corrections. Ektar is the absolute perfect film for scenery. I would try to keep everything in the same lighting conditions. Try taking the scans into a photo editing software and play with the color temperature. Even my old Android phone has some free photo editing app.
Those photos were shot very early in the morning…!
Those photos were shot very early in the morning…!
The scans were much better with none of the excess yellowing…!
Adjust your filtering to render the part of the image you are most concerned with in a way that is pleasing to you. The other parts of the image - which were illuminated with different light - will appear different as well. If that change is unsatisfactory, you may need to compromise.
One more thing is convert it to black and white in photoshop
One reason Ansel Adams preferred black and white
What type of filtering…?
Sorry, I misunderstood and thought you were doing your own darkroom colour prints.
The filtration is what the colour printer chooses when printing optically from a negative.
Whether or not the negative is printed optically, or scanned and the scans are printed digitally, it is your subject that is creating most of the problem. Warm/yellow light on the highlights and cool/blue light in the shadows. Ektar just happens to make that more obvious than some other films.
Those prints were from Process One.
My next lab is Blue Moon… and they use the optical method…!
You may have much better luck with a skilled printer, no doubt. Still will be a compromise. Let Blue Moon what you want, that will help them zero in.
Those photos were shot very early in the morning…!
The scans sent don’t show the yellowing as much as the prints...!
I personally always carry a light pink skylight filter for just a minor bit of correction, namely a "KN" Singh-Ray (apparently not made any more), then the 81A, which is the most versatile filter, and will correct the film for overcast drab bluish skies - a common situation. An 81B is just a little more pronounced in its degree of correction, but I've had trouble finding an 81B which is really correct itself - a true light balancing filter should have a pinch of pinkish amber to it, and not just dirty yellow. Then I carry an 81C for deep blue shade under clear blue skies - common in the mtns and coast, but really anywhere there's a mix of real blue overhead and deep shadows.
.. there are certain very important corrections which can ONLY be made at the time of exposure, which affect the way the different dye layers will act from that point onward. Playing around with overall balance in the darkroom afterwards merely corrects your paper or general look to the film itself, but inherently cannot remedy an incorrect initial exposure. Nor is it easy to do so in PS. With chromes, we just slapped em on a lightbox and either liked the shadows or didn't, but it certainly didn't mean the lack of color temp correction was warranted. Some people liked things all excessively blue. This kind of off-the-cuff strategy works very poorly with Ektar, which is not a muddy shoot-from-the-hip amateur color neg film, but something which behaves more like a BMW... It will really take you places, but it will also crash into a tree a lot faster if you're careless with it.
Which means mixed lighting - blue shadows and yellow highlights. Ektar is both accurate and quite saturated, so the effects of mixed lighting are quite visible.
In other words, you are actually seeing how it actually is.
Early morning or in the evening before dusk are what photographers call the "golden hour" .
There's a reason for this .
It looks like you were a bit to late to catch the colour in the sky .
Which means mixed lighting - blue shadows and yellow highlights. Ektar is both accurate and quite saturated, so the effects of mixed lighting are quite visible.
In other words, you are actually seeing how it actually is.
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