Dave's Slide Collection

[Genghis]

One advantage of our son leaving home is that I have been able to get into parts of the house that have been somewhat inaccessible for a while. I have now rediscovered my collection of 35mm slides, mostly from the early 1970's. They will be a mixture of BR diesels, Industrial steam and my trips abroad to find main line steam. Courtesy of Prime Day I've bought a scanner so have spent time uploading the first box. I'll post these and if there is interest I will add more. I'll need to shrink the file sizes first.
Having tried that and failed I'll seek help..............

 

[PhilH]

I'll need to shrink the file sizes first.
Having tried that and failed I'll seek help..............

Do you have a photo editing program, such as Photoshop ?
I usually scan 35mm negatives or slides at 2400dpi which gives a file size of about 2Mb, then edit with Adobe Photoshop and reduce the image size to 1000 pixels width. This gives a saved image file size of about 300-400 Kb which seems to work OK for posting here.

 

[Genghis]

It was Pixel count. Try this:


5230 Approaching Tramway Junction Gloucester July 1972

 

[HDSmith]

And a fascinating location, too- classic 'battle of the Gauges' territory. A great rediscovered!

 

[Genghis]

Now something more steamy.


HE 3830 Hurricane at Bickershaw July 1972.




Hurricane again.



HE3698 Repulse at Walkden.



RSH 7293 Humphrey at Walkden



RSHN 7485 Agecroft No 2



And again.



If you're going to bunk depots it's better to be thin............



HL 3805 Hartshead.

Let me know what you think.

David

 

[HDSmith]

Should read 'rediscovery'. The heat has got to me. Apologies.

 

[oldravendale]

David - These are wonderful photos but they'll benefit hugely from a bit of post processing. I use Adobe Photoshop but others prefer other systems. It's worth a bit of research to find those which offer a free trial. I don't know of a system which is free but there may well be one or two out there.

I've taken the liberty of doing a very quick (5 minute) Photoshop job on the first photo. With a bit more time it will improve very considerably. I hope I don't create an upset by doing this, David.

 

[adrian]

Are you just using the software supplied with the scanner or something else?

Just to flag up potential for using Vuescan - this has a number of automatic colour correction features and batch processing methods, it's the one I would use for scanning slides as it has built in filters for correcting faded slides as you scan them.

How To Restore Faded Slides with VueScan | VueScan How-to Guides

www.hamrick.com

 

[Osgood]

If you're going to bunk depots it's better to be thin............