Way back when I was still a novice at photography, I took a photo of a friend playing guitar, sitting on the hood of my father's car. Probably spring on 1977. I was trying to do some cool lighting, with the sun reflecting off the guitar. This would've been my first SLR (Canon-TX), all manual. Almost certainly Kodak Tri-X film, developed and printed in my basement. Well, you can see from the scan below, it was all a bit beyond my capabilities at the time. But not so bad that I didn't keep a print of it.
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Fast forward 44 years or so, and I came across the print while digging through old photos. I was looking for :throwback" photos for my Instagram account. I decided to scan it (as seen above), and see what I could do in Photoshop (Elements). Below is an improved version, mostly just adjusting Layers. But I did have to do some burning to try and fix the somewhat clunky dodging I did on the print:
Much improved, I think. I wish I had easy access to the negative, it could be interesting to start over from there and see what I could do. I probably do have the negative, in a box with every other negative from those days.
I sent a copy of the photo to the guy in the picture. I haven't seen him since the late 70's, but had a couple of email correspondences earlier this century. For now, though, he's anonymous here.
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