Scanning Black and White Film

I give a run through of workflow for scanning and processing black and white film.
Software used:
Epson Scan
Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
Google NIK Output Sharpener
Film:
Ilford HP5 pushed to 800
Camera:
Pentax 67 with 105mm 2.4 Lens.
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[@neilhorton-hill7276]

black and white is really important in black and white photography

[@ErickDelaPazChannel]

Neil Horton-Hill hahhahaha

[@a.drianluna]

Really helpful, always interesting to see how others edit their photos. Thanks Tim!

[@TimPalman]

Adrian Luna Thanks Adrian :)

[@Tamamatamatama]

Glad that you clean your dekstop

[@isaacscameras9163]

Awesome job, Tim! Didn't realize how much data was getting thrown away when I scan. Thanks for the help!

[@newalls]

Can't wait for the Vuescan tutorial. Sounds like its going to be a good one.

[@thewanderess]

Thank you. I was just wondering if you’ve any tips for scanning with DSLR

[@andymorgan99]

Thanks Tim...extremely helpful. I'm just scanning a roll of B&W that I shot 5 months ago (that's slow photography for you) and following your tips as I do it. I'm REALLY keen to see your promised comparison between Vuescan and Epson Scan software. I used both and can't decide which is best. In an ideal world I'd marry the interface of Epson with some of the scanning qualities of Vuescan (esp the ability to scan RAW). Maybe someone'll do that soon. There's still a way to go before we have the perfect scanning solution! Thanks again...

[@torrenslong7472]

at around 4:37 when you move the midpoint to the left to brighten the image, is there a difference between doing that there vs in photoshop? assuming that the black and white points are set to capture all the information

[@SlayR007]

Still waiting for the VueScan video, I just started scanning my negs at home and would love to see a brief tutorial on that software!

[@19robinp]

Question: is it possible to scan black and white medium format with the borders without using the film holder (name of stock, frame number..)? 🤔
Great content by the way, thanks for it!

[@rallen8772]

Do you perform any selective toning to your digital B&W PS files to replicate selenium, brown toner, poly toner or sepia toning effects? I would be interested in learning this as I used these in my B&W darkroom back in the days...

[@Andrew_cenci]

This was super helpful, just started scanning my own film. Thanks!

[@appler3]

Hello I really like how your bw photos look even before the photoshop, that light grey color did you scan like that or you push the film ?

[@Cthulhu74700]

Thank you Tim, great one

[@davide88rn]

Why the tone curve is not linear in the scanner setup? Didn’t finish in the corners but with a line

[@azzalos]

This is great! Thanks for the tips!

[@tobiasberchtold5441]

Great video, supert informative thanks.
Do you ever use lightroom in this workflow?

[@TimPalman]

Tobias Berchtold Thanks Tobias! Honestly no, although there's no reason why you couldn't adapt the same principles to it.

[@wojciechsiewior3868]

Yeah, the whole time I was thinking you can replicate this in LR fairly easily with the graduated filter, radial filter, and brush adjustment.
Nice one Tim

[@cameronpaterson1999]

thanks for these tips Tim rly helpful

[@aaronson5972]

This video is awesome mate!

[@patrickjmckenna]

Excellent tutorial.

[@svend1798]

My image turns blue'ish when converting to rgb ? please help :)

[@philzpayzdabillz]

Damn, curves are inverted in Australia too?

[@TimPalman]

hahahahaha nah it's just greyscale images for some reason have inverted curves, I have no idea why though.

[@philzpayzdabillz]

Funky, it doesn't happen to me. Seriously messed with my head. Excited for the Vuescan comparison though - the whole raw scan, invert in photoshop thing feels really cool to do but it didn't actually give me better results as far as I could tell

[@TimPalman]

I'm not even inverting in photoshop, using the build in invert algorithm in the program itself

[@philzpayzdabillz]

Oh I'll have to try it again then. Honestly the UI is so bad I didn't spend more time in the program than I had to

[@austinkral]

great video man. I gotta up my photoshop game haha

[@TimPalman]

Thanks dude!

[@NegativeFeedback]

6th

[@TimPalman]

NegativeFeedback You'll always be my numba 1

[@michaelgodthaab6250]

Awesome video, thx a lot :-) very helpfull

[@SeverinWerner]

so helpful! THANKS A LOT!

[@Willie0211]

thank you

[@tapiopitkaranta7667]

Thanks for the video! Looking forward to the Vuescan video as that's what I'm using. Maybe I'll pick up some new tricks. I basically just copied the settings from Chris Crawford's tutorial for BW here: crawfordphotoschool.com/digital/scanning.php

[@Testango]

thank you