photosScanning and color balancing C-41 taken under the water can be quite the experience so I thought I would share a bit of how much there can be to work with on color negative, especially @kodak Portra 800. While I'm getting better at shooting lower ISO films underwater, it seems like I'm getting the best color correction with Portra 800. Lovely stuff! I wish it was available in sheet sizes but I digress. That has been true in the past and, so far, is true for these rolls too though new time I want to try Aerocolor IV (SantaColor) since it seems to have a red lean that might be favorable underwater.<br><br>My first takeaway is the _best_ color I've found for any color negative (above or under water) is from making an RA4 print directly from the film. All the underwater color scuba photos I've printed thus far have indeed had the most natural color rendition. I do plan on making some RA4 prints from the color film I shot over our vacation but am waiting to scan in all the rolls and pick among the best. While RA4 gives me the best color it also takes the most time.<br><br>Anyways! Here's two interpretations from the same negative scanned on my Epson V800 using Silverfast with NegaFix set to Portra 800. One has CCR enabled, one does not. But in both cases, I did some further correction in Lightroom. I have found for my GoPro images, using Darktable gave me superior results over at least my old version of Lightroom such that I may look at trying out Darktable for the scuba stuff. Darktable is a phenomenal, incredibly so given it's free, but it is a bit of a hill climb when coming from Lightroom, especially when wanting to make local adjustments. It also doesn't handle multiple catalogs very well but all that might be worth the trade-off.<br><br>In terms of what I saw, I would say neither of these are quite right, but the blue one is much closer. The non-blue one is far from reality, but I find it really interesting nonetheless in how far one can remove the blue water cast to produce what it might look like where the water clear.<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://social.bitbybitwhatever.com/tag/scuba" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scuba</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.bitbybitwhatever.com/tag/cozumel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cozumel</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.bitbybitwhatever.com/tag/nikonosv" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NikonosV</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.bitbybitwhatever.com/tag/nikonos15mm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nikonos15mm</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.bitbybitwhatever.com/tag/filmphotography" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FilmPhotography</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.bitbybitwhatever.com/tag/35mmfilm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#35mmfilm</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.bitbybitwhatever.com/tag/shootfilmebenice" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShootFilmeBeNice</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.bitbybitwhatever.com/tag/silverfast" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Silverfast</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.bitbybitwhatever.com/tag/epsonv800" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EpsonV800</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.bitbybitwhatever.com/tag/portra800" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Portra800</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.bitbybitwhatever.com/tag/kodakportra800" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KodakPortra800</a>