| Rolls numbering | When the roll is dry I cut it by six frames and place it in archival sleeves where whole role fits on one page of A4 size placing it in hard cover book and marking by roll number. As I wrote in some other document I am numbering my rolls based on year when they were exposed and sequential number based in order of development. So I have rolls number like 2004-10, 2004-11... |
| Preview scans |
After this is done I always scan whole roll for preview pictures. I am
doing that on 650 dpi resolution, getting pictures sized around
900px on bigger side. I am using vuescan
software. Each frame scan is
automatically numbered by name of roll and index number of the
frame. So numbers are like 2004-10-01, 2004-10-02, 2004-10-36.
Than I place scans from each roll in separate directory named by the same name as roll number which is subdirectory of the year. This gave me following directory structure: 2003/2003-01 2003/2003-02 2003/2003-03 2003/2003-04 ... 2004/2004-01 2004/2004-02 |
| Using IMatch for managing photos. |
When I preview scan whole roll I am adding it to database managed by
IMatch software, which I
use for managing my photographs. There I write note for whole
roll. This note (description) contains description of developing
procedure and possibly other important things, like: with which rolls
was this roll developed in the same tank and so.
Development description contains film type, developer, temperature, agitation and time used for developing. Stop batch and fixing description. Example of such a description looks like this: Fuji Neopan 400@400 in Aculux 2 1:9 55ml+495ml=550ml @20C 12:00
dev: 12 x 60sec 3x inversions in 10 sec | stop: water 1x30sec
| fix: 5x60sec X89 1:4 | clean: 3x60 H-8 1:7
note: Developed together with 2004-45
In the IMatch I use its nice category feature and I am assigning each frame to appropriate categories. I am using few main groups of categories:
When I organize like this all rolls from one session I also use categories system of IMatch to do pre-selection of interesting shots and doing small assessment of them. I use category describing technical quality and assigning to category for later consideration and/or print. If I am working on certain assignment or project I also assign interesting shots to project or assignment category. I never remove any preview scan from IMatch database. In other words I am keeping also wrong shots or wrongly developed rolls. After this is done for all rolls in one session I make backup of them and IMatch with database on CD and removable disk. These preview scans are not any perfect I use default options of vuescan to produce reasonable image for this kind of assessment. |
| RAW scan data |
When I finally choose some shots as
perfect and want to print and work on them further, I will take
negative again. Using the scanner and vuescan I produce tuned raw scan
to get maximal data from negative. Than I store this as a tiff 48bit file with name indicating that it is raw data (e.g.: 2004-10-03.raw.tif). I assigned it preview image into type.raw category. I am keeping every raw file on CD which are named RAW-CD-01,... The same name I have in IMatch for RAW category and I assigned preview image to category with the same name as CD-ROM where I burn image is. This way I can locate RAW scan for certain photograph if I ever scanned it as raw. When I produced print and I have print tiff files I do the similar with them I have series of CD-ROMs name PRN-CD-01,... and same category names in IMatch (type.print.PRN-CD-01). The file names for file using for printing are basically in format 2004-10-03.print.tif for final print, 2004-10-03.master-print.tif for print file without sharpening and specific dpi. I also store masks used for adjusting of image, if they where any complicated. |
| Reasons for this approach | The result of this organization in IMatch is that I can locate shot based on location, persons, project or assignment it belongs, quality, used film/digital camera, if it was printed and raw scanned, developing procedure and possible equipment (but this is not that important for me) and combination of all those. When I have my shot I can find easily its negative (based on number) I can find CD-ROM where raw and print files are stored. |
