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The chill came from the wind, not the water rolling down my face. So, this is what it feels like to be a reborn? Cold and wet. Funny, that's probably how I felt when I first left the womb. I didn't feel like a new man though. Not on this day. My rebirth came a few weeks prior.
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For a year I'd tip toed around Christianity, claiming to be saved. I called myself a Christian, yet all my old self remained. Though I wanted it, there were things I wanted more. I was still a man of the world holding on to my old life. I wasn't ready to be reborn.
My childhood was shattered early on with the divorce of my parents around age 5. My father disappeared and did not resurface for years. My mother remarried but my new step-father quickly departed to serve a two year jail term for narcotics possession. Being the only boy in the house with 4 younger sisters and having no spiritual foundation, I quickly was lost.
"Lost" doesn't begin to describe it. The truth is that from an early age sexuality dominated my life. In my earliest memories I was extremely sexually aware, not only of myself, but of others around me. I don't know how I got this way. I have no memory of that. Who knows, it could have stemmed from sexual abuse that I'd blocked out.
Inevitably, I succumbed to pornography. It seemed to pop up everywhere, from my uncle's house, my grandparents' home, friends' houses, even on occasion my own home. From a very young age I always managed to find it. Not that it was given to me; I just for some reason knew to look for it. I became a pornography addict around the age of 6. As I said earlier, by this time, I was very sexually aware, even experimenting with other kids my age before I began school. With my mother seeking out the attention of men and preoccupied with drugs and alcohol I began to develop a strong desire to seek out validation from women to make myself feel better. In a strange way, pornography did that for me. It made me feel like someone cared about me, even though they were just images, not meant for a child to see.
My life began to spiral out of control. I'll spare all the details but aside from my growing sexual addiction I also endured a second divorce between my mother and step-father. I sank into a depression as men began to parade through my home. I finally decided to move in with my biological father, who I barely knew. My father had remarried and it seemed like I was entering a happy, stable family. Unfortunately all that stability drove me in to a depressed and rebellious state. Shortly after my 13th birthday I was arrested and placed in jail then moved to a foster home. I felt abandoned. My only joy was the pornography that still managed to find its way into my hands.
After about 2 years my father and the foster family organization decided that I could return back home. I was ecstatic. Then, in less than a year after returning a third divorce came this time between my father and step-mother. My father later would admit to me that for a time he blamed me for his divorce. He has since apologized for that but at that time I just completely shut down. I was 15, had lived through 3 divorces, been arrested, and spent two years living in foster care where I was just "another kid in the system". I had moved in with my father after my mother's divorce in an attempt to escape the craziness of my life. Instead the craziness followed me.
I first attended a Lutheran Church with a small congregation of less than 100 people with my father. No one ever talked to me or explained what Christianity was. I didn't really understand what was going on; yet I always liked hearing the sermons. One day when my pastor found out I had never been baptized, he denied my taking communion in front of the whole church. I was so embarrassed and I felt so rejected that I stopped going. The pastor offered to baptize me quickly, but it was too late. I no longer desired to make a commitment to something that had rejected me. Church was not for me.
In my eyes; my family failed me, the church failed me, and society failed me. Pornography was a way to escape, a way to feel good, and a way to be accepted by women. It was a drug, giving me a consistent high, and falsely filling me with the validation I so desperately craved. I was in deep, ensnared by evil.
At 18, a few months before I graduated high school, my rebellious state and addictive mindset brought me into conflict with my father. I was kicked out of my house and spent the next few months bouncing from friends house to friends house to finish school. From there I moved out of the state to go back with my mother. That arrangement lasted about a month. One night I tried to stop my mother's boyfriend while he was beating her up. With his hand around my throat I was asked to leave. I was once again homeless but this time I didn't have my friends to rely on. To escape my crazy life, I joined the Navy. With no place to live, no income, hungery, and in full survival mode, the escape was so close that I felt like Indiana Jones diving for a closing chamber door, pulling his fedora through the crack just as the vault was sealed. Sadly I was so desperate to escape that I had forgotten all about my sisters. I left them behind to fend for themselves. Two made it through after suffering through drug and alcohol addiction, one is still trapped in her addiction, and I'm sorry to say, my youngest sister did not survive. I remember standing beside her coffin thinking I was her big brother, the one that was meant to protect her. Instead I was the one chosen to read her obituary.
As shameful and tragic as it was, I escaped. But unbeknownst to me, along with the Indiana Jones fedora, I pulled my addiction through as well. Pornography was easy to acquire in the Navy and now I could legally get it on my own, but shame kept me in a state of always trying to hide it. When I started dating conflicts began arising. For the first time I was starting to get validation from real women, not just pictures. It was too late though. Since my mind was twisted with sexual perversion, my attempts at healthy relationships failed.
Needless to say I developed a double life of my relationships and my addiction. My relationships were doomed from the start because not only did I have a pornography addiction but also abandonment issues, codependency, and still no spiritual support structure. I was heading for destruction. Though I knew it, I couldn't stop it. Sadly, I hurt some good women along the way.
In 2002 I married a wonderful woman. Just like the Navy, my addiction followed me into my marriage as well. I tried to be a good man. I even went back to church and found encouragement in a small group. Still my addiction raged behind closed doors with the introduction of internet porn. If pornography was like cocaine, then internet porn was my crack. In time I destroyed my marriage. My addiction to pornography took everything from me, my wife, two step-sons, my respect, and almost even lost my job. I divorced and wanted to be away from everything and everyone. I was a mess of a man until a godly woman came into my life. (You didn't talk about divorce? What happened to the marriage?)
On Memorial Day 2011, my new girlfriend brought me to The Rock. Though going to church hadn't worked for me in the past, I wanted to impress her so I went. Then a strange thing happened, I started listening and liked what I was hearing. The message spoke to me. Although I was in a building full of thousands of people, the message seemed to speak right to my heart. With my girlfriend's encouragement I began taking steps to the Lord. By the end of the summer I asked Jesus into my life. A lot of my action at this time were to find favor in my girlfriends eyes, and not the Lord's. I think God saw this and realized that in order for me to be healed I had to learn to rely on Him alone. Also, my pornography addiction was beginning to rear its ugly head again. As hard as I tried to hold it together, my relationship fell apart again. I was left with broken hearted. Still, the Rock Church appealed to me. I could sneak in, get lost in the sea of faces, hear the message and then sneak back out.
No one noticed me, no one but Jesus. He began talking to me through my devastation. I learned that as long as I held onto addiction I would never have a healthy relationship. Jesus wanted my first healthy relationship to be with Him. If I could learn to rely on Him for everything then He would work to heal me.
Then one night it happened. The Lord's army had been marching steadily to the stronghold that is my heart. The devil still possessed it, but I held the key. Many times in my life I tried to defeat Satan under my own power, always succumbing to his will in the end. This evening was different. As temptation began to press in on me I finally realized I could not defeat him, and for the first time in my life I truly turned the key and opened my heart to the Lord. I spoke to Him saying that I was completely powerless. I asked Him to please enter my heart and rescue me from Satan's grasp. I told Him that I trusted Him. With that I pushed open the doors!!!
Liz James photography
If you think God is all kind and merciful, one that only knows love, then you would not have recognized these angelic warriors who rushed in to dispel this usurper that night. They were fierce and fought with all the power and might of the Almighty Himself. Still an entire lifetime of evil doesn't just pack up and move out when then Lord comes calling. A deadly battle raged for my heart that night, one that I could not participate in. In fact, after tossing and turning for what felt like hours, praying prayer after prayer, professing my helplessness, I finally passed out from pure exhaustion.
Sunlight appeared through the window of my room as my eyes slowly opened to the morning. I stood up. There was peace, such that I have never known in my whole life. I knew Jesus had won a great victory as I slept. The Lord's banner now flying high within my heart I was brought to my knees in thankfulness and overwhelmed with excitement. The devil no longer lived here. Jesus has freed me and taken back my heart for His own. Satan's army still sits outside the gates trying to tempt me to allow him back in, but my heart belongs to the Lord now. I trust He will protect me.
The Lord took back my heart. Now, exiting the water of my first "real" baptism I acknowledge to the world just what he has done.
Though still a broken man, my foundation is being remade. The Lord is mending my broken heart. Pornography remains a mouse click away, but the Lord is fortifying his position inside of me. Yes, the wind sends chills against my cold, wet skin. But with the wind also comes hope, hope that I have never known, a pervasive hope.
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Thermophilic and thermoacidophilic biopolymer-degrading genes and enzymes from alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius and related organisms, methods
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|December 28, 2010
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|Thermoacidophilic derived enzymes for biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals
|Isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius are provided. Further provided are methods of at least partially degrading, cleaving, or removing polysaccharides, lignocellulose, cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, starch, chitin, polyhydroxybutyrate, heteroxylans, glycosides, xylan-, glucan-, galactan, or mannan-decorating groups using isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius.
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Editors note: This is a piece Shikan Hawkins wrote months ago that he has sent for publication today. Thich Nhat Hanh has since returned home to Plum Village following rehabilitation. Some of you may be aware that Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh suffered a serious stroke recently. He remains in a coma, still breathing on his own. He has ...Read More »
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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2013, Article ID 936952, 14 pages
Stability in a Simple Food Chain System with Michaelis-Menten Functional Response and Nonlocal Delays
1School of Mathematics and Physics, Jiangsu Teachers University of Technology, Changzhou 213001, China
2Basic Department, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yangcheng 224003, China
3School of Mathematical Science, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225002, China
Received 26 April 2013; Accepted 8 July 2013
Academic Editor: Rodrigo Lopez Pouso
Copyright © 2013 Wenzhen Gan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper is concerned with the asymptotical behavior of solutions to the reaction-diffusion system under homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. By taking food ingestion and species' moving into account, the model is further coupled with Michaelis-Menten type functional response and nonlocal delay. Sufficient conditions are derived for the global stability of the positive steady state and the semitrivial steady state of the proposed problem by using the Lyapunov functional. Our results show that intraspecific competition benefits the coexistence of prey and predator. Furthermore, the introduction of Michaelis-Menten type functional response positively affects the coexistence of prey and predator, and the nonlocal delay is harmless for stabilities of all nonnegative steady states of the system. Numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the main results.
1. Introduction
The overall behavior of ecological systems continues to be of great interest to both applied mathematicians and ecologists. Two species predator-prey models have been extensively investigated in the literature. But recently more and more attention has been focused on systems with three or more trophic levels. For example, the predator-prey system for three species with Michaelis-Menten type functional response was studied by many authors [1–4]. However, the systems in [1–4] are either with discrete delay or without delay or without diffusion. In view of individuals taking time to move, spatial dispersal was dealt with by introducing diffusion term to corresponding delayed ODE model in previous literatures, namely, adding a Laplacian term to the ODE model. In recent years, it has been recognized that there are modelling difficulties with this approach. The difficulty is that diffusion and time delay are independent of each other, since individuals have not been at the same point at previous times. Britton [5] made a first comprehensive attempt to address this difficulty by introducing a nonlocal delay; that is, the delay term involves a weighted-temporal average over the whole of the infinite domain and the whole of the previous times.
There are many results for reaction-diffusion equations with nonlocal delays [5–18]. The existence and stability of traveling wave fronts were studied in reaction-diffusion equations with nonlocal delay [5–9]. The stability of impulsive cellular neural networks with time varying was discussed in [10] by means of new Poincare integral inequality. The asymptotic behavior of solutions of the reaction-diffusion equations with nonlocal delay was investigated in [11, 12] by using an iterative technique and in [13–15] by the Lyapunov functional. The stability and Hopf bifurcation were discussed in [16] for a diffusive logistic population model with nonlocal delay effect.
Motivated by the work above, we are concerned with the following food chain model with Michaelis-Menten type functional response: for , with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions and initial conditions where is bounded, Hölder continuous function and satisfies () on . Here, is a bounded domain in with smooth boundary and is the outward normal derivative on . represents the density of the th species (prey, predator, and top predator resp.) at time and location and thus only nonnegative is of interest. The parameter is the intrinsic growth rate of the prey, and and are the death rates of the predator and top-predator. is the intraspecific competitive rate of the th species. is the maximum predation rate. and are the efficiencies of food utilization of the predator and top predator, respectively. We assume the predator and top predator show the Michaelis-Menten (or Holling type II) functional response with and , respectively, where and are half-saturation constants. For a through biological background of similar models, see [18, 19]. As our most knowledge, the tritrophic food chain model has been found to have many interesting biological properties, such as the coexistence and the Hopf bifurcation. However, the effect of nonlocal time delays on the coexistence has not been reported. Our paper mainly concerns this perspective.
Additionally, () represents the nonlocal delay due to the ingestion of predator; that is, mature adult predator can only contribute to the production of predator biomass. The boundary condition in (2) implies that there is no migration across the boundary of .
The main purpose of this paper is to study the global asymptotic behavior of the solution of system (1)–(3). The preliminary results are presented in Section 2. Section 3 contains sufficient conditions for the global asymptotic behaviors of the equilibria of system (1)–(3) by means of the Lyapunov functional. Numerical simulations are carried out to show the feasibility of the conditions in Theorems 8–10 in Section 4. Finally, a brief discussion is given to conclude this work.
2. Preliminary Results
In this section, we present several preliminary results that will be employed in the sequel.
Lemma 1 (see [3]). Let and be positive constants. Assume that , and is bounded from below. If and in for some positive constant , then .
The following lemma is the Positivity Lemma in [20].
Lemma 2. Let and satisfy where . If for and for all . Then on . Moreover, if the initial function is nontrivial, then in .
Lemma 3 (see [20]). Let and be a pair of constant vector satisfying and let the reaction functions satisfy local Lipschitz condition with . Then system (1)–(3) admits a unique global solution such that whenever , .
The following result was obtained by the method of upper and lower solutions and the associated iterations in [21].
Lemma 4 (see [21]). Let be the nontrivial positive solution of the system where . The following results hold:(1)if , then uniformly on as ;(2)if , then uniformly on as .
Throughout this paper, we assume that where is a nonnegative function, which is continuous in for each and measurable in for each pair .
Now we prove the following propositions which will be used in the sequel.
Proposition 5. For any nonnegative initial function, the corresponding solution of system (1)–(3) is nonnegative.
Proof. Suppose that is a solution and satisfies with . Choose . Then where It follows from Lemma 2 that . Due to the arbitrariness of , we have for .
Proposition 6. System (1)–(3) with initial functions admits a unique global solution satisfying for , where is defined as
Proof. It follows from standard PDE theory that there exists a such that problem (1)–(3) admits a unique solution in . From Lemma 2 we know that for . Considering the first equation in (1), we have Using the maximum principle gives that . In a similar way, we have for . It is easy to see that and are a pair of coupled upper and lower solutions to system (1)–(3) from the direct computation. In virtue of Lemma 3, system (1)–(3) admits a unique global solution satisfying for . In addition, if , is nontrivial, it follows from the strong maximum principle that for all .
3. Global Stability
In this section, we study the asymptotic behavior of the equilibrium of system (1)–(3). In the beginning, we show the existence and uniqueness of positive steady state.
Let us consider the following equations: A direct computation shows that the above equations have only one positive solution if and only if is satisfied. Taking into account, we consider the equation , which corresponds to in Figure 1.
It is clear that if , the intersection point always lies in . Let Suppose that and hold. We take as a parameter and consider the following system: When the parameter is sufficiently small, the first two equations in (15) can be approximated by (12). Moreover, by continuously increasing the value of goes up, and meanwhile the intersection point between and also goes up. However, goes up faster than , while keeps still. In other words, there exists a critical value such that the intersection point lies in , which implies that there is a unique positive solution to (15), or equivalently (1)–(3).
Lemma 7. Assume that and hold, and then the positive steady state of system (1)–(3) is locally asymptotically stable.
Proof. We get the local stability of by performing a linearization and analyzing the corresponding characteristic equation. Similarly as in [22], let be the eigenvalues of on with the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. Let be the eigenspace corresponding to in , for . Let
be an orthonormal basis of , and . Then
Let and . Then the linearization of (1) is , where . The coefficients are defined as follows:
Since is invariant under the operator for each , then the operator on is . Let and we can get the characteristic equation , where , , and are defined as follows:
It is easy to see that and . It follows from assumption and that . So and for from the direct calculation. According to the Routh-Hurwitz criterion, the three roots of all have negative real parts.
By continuity of the roots with respect to and Routh-Hurwitz criterion, we can conclude that there exists a positive constant such that Consequently, the spectrum of , consisting only of eigenvalues, lies in . It is easy to see that is locally asymptotically stable and follows from Theorem of [23].
Theorem 8. Assume that and hold, and the positive steady state of system (1)–(3) with nontrivial initial function is globally asymptotically stable.
Proof. It is easy to see that the equations in (1) can be rewritten as
where and are positive constants to be determined. Calculating the derivatives along the positive solution to the system (1)–(3) yields
Applying the inequality , we derive from (25) that
According to the property of the Kernel functions , (), we know that
Define a new Lyapunov functional as follows:
It is derived from (27) and (28) that
Since is the unique positive solution of system (1). Using Proposition 5, there exists a constant which does not depend on or such that () for . By Theorem in [24], we have
Assume that
and denote
Then (29) is transformed into
If we choose
then . Therefore, we have
From Proposition 6 we can see that the solution of system (1) and (3) is bounded, and so are the derivatives of () by the equations in (1). Applying Lemma 1, we obtain that Recomputing gives where /. Using (30) and (1), we obtain that the derivative of is bounded in . From Lemma 1, we conclude that as . Therefore Applying the Poincaré inequality leads to where and is the smallest positive eigenvalue of with the homogeneous Neumann condition. Therefore, So we have as . Similarly, and as . According to (30), there exists a subsequence , and non-negative functions , such that Applying (40) and noting that , we then have , . That is,
Furthermore, the local stability of combining with (43) gives the following global stability.
Theorem 9. Assume that and hold, and then the semi-trivial steady state of system (1)–(3) with non-trivial initial functions is globally asymptotically stable.
Proof. It is obvious that system (1)–(3) always has two non-negative equilibria as follows: and . If and are satisfied, system (1) has the other semitrivial solution denoted by , where
We consider the stability of under condition and . Equation (1) can be rewritten as Similar to the argument of Theorem 8, we have and as uniformly on provided that the following additional condition holds: Next, we consider the asymptotic behavior of . Let Then there exists such that Consider the following two systems: Combining comparison principle with (50), we obtain that By Lemma 4, we obtain which implies that uniformly on .
Theorem 10. Suppose that and hold, and then the semi-trivial steady state of system (1)–(3) with non-trivial initial functions is globally asymptotically stable.
Proof. We study the stability of the semi-trivial solution . Similarly, the equations in (1) can be written as Define Calculating the derivative of along , we get from (54) that Define It is easy to see that Assume that Let Choose Then we get (). Therefore we have uniformly on .
Next, we consider the asymptotic behavior of and . For any , integrating (57) over yields where . It implies that for the constant which is independent of . Now we consider the boundedness of and . From the Green's identity, we obtain Note that Thus, we get . In a similar way, we have . Here and are independent of .
It is easy to see that . These imply that From the Sobolev compact embedding theorem, we know
In the end, we show that the trivial solution is an unstable equilibrium. Similarly to the local stability to , we can get the characteristic equation of as If , then . It is easy to see that this equation admits a positive solution . According to Theorem 5.1 in [23], we have the following result.
Theorem 11. The trivial equilibrium is an unstable equilibrium of system (1)–(3).
4. Numerical Illustrations
In this section, we perform numerical simulations to illustrate the theoretical results given in Section 3.
In the following, we always take , where and However, it is difficult for us to simulate our results directly because of the nonlocal term. Similar to [25], the equations in (1) can be rewritten as follows: where


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Muzaffarnagar, Jun 24 (PTI) Some old graves have been found damaged in the main graveyard in the city, police said today.
Locals gathered at the graveyard yesterday and found that the graves were damaged.
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I can tell that I'm starting to feel better, folks! The urge to declutter is taking a stronger hold, and I've actually set a fifteen minute timer for myself to blog. Things are looking up!
So. Let's talk about birthdays!
I used to have one, you know. A birthday. Every year. And then something happened.
Our first child was born - right after my birthday. Then the family decided to make our annual family reunion coincide with that child's birthday. Suddenly, within the space of one month, we had four family birthdays, Father's Day, our anniversary, a family reunion (that we host), and a couple other things that I'm forgetting. Not being especially good at dealing with a busy schedule, June quickly turned into the month that was going to make me lose my mind.
And in the process, my birthday was completely lost. Every time it came around, I would wave it off with an exhausted hand. "We'll deal with it later. Right now I'm too tired!"
And predictably, it was always postponed indefinitely.
Not that birthdays are the be-all-end-all of existence. But it was always disappointing.
This year, I rebelled. Despite all of the usual June insanity, I stopped and said, "Wait! I want to DO SOMETHING for my birthday!"
Being a reasonable man, my husband said, "Okay, so what do you want to do?"
That was an easy answer. Steak, of course!
We haven't seen any beef outside of hamburger for nearly two years, and my find-an-animal-and-eat-it instinct always goes through the roof during pregnancy.
And so steak it was! With potatoes, strawberries, and corn for the carb-eaters (I may or may not have had some, *ahem*), and sauteed mushrooms for me - YUM.
We added our favorite horseradish sauce, and it was superb. I could eat that stuff straight. Yum, yum, yum.
And more importantly, I felt... better. It's the first birthday I've celebrated in eight years, and it just felt much, much, better. A (very minor) glitch in the universe was righted.
Unfortunately, I also awakened a ravenous appetite for steak. Pretty soon you'll see me on the side of the freeway off-ramp with a sign: "Will work for steak, preferably porterhouse."
I ended the day with low-carb ice cream, of my own concocting. It was terrible. But any ice cream is better than none!
Having (almost) reached my mid-thirties, I must say that I have found my thirties much preferable to my twenties. Not that my twenties weren't fun. They really were, and I enjoyed them tremendously. But they were... tempestuous, to say the least. Graduating from college, first job, first moving away from home, first married life, first apartment, first house, first pregnancy, first miscarriage, hyperemesis, first childbirth, first parenting of todders - it was all very life-shattering stuff.
Of course, every life-decade has the possibility of being tempestuous and life-shattering. I know that there are many challenging life experiences ahead of me. But it does seem that the twenties might be unique in their level of craziness. We shall see! (Thoughts, anyone?)
Another thing that I am enjoying about my thirties is my growing ability to cast aside cultural and peer-pressure-caused expectations. It's taken many years even to recognize those expectations for what they were, let alone grasp the courage to jettison them. Have any of you experienced that? It's just lovely. My thirties have been a wonderful time of coming into myself - shedding unnecessary self-imposed expectations and the things I have tried to do and be that have been simply the result of cultural pressure. It's such a beautifully freeing feeling!
I am not, of course, speaking of discarding morals. Far from it. But cultural expectations, on the other hand, are a real pain, and it's lovely to shed them one by one.
Life is an interesting journey - and there's so far to go. My character has so many flaws, and I'm thankful that God is working on me - day by day, year by year. I don't see the changes from day to day, but when I look back a decade, I realize how far we've come. God is good.
And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off! It's time to go celebrate our eleventh anniversary.
With steak. And horseradish sauce. Preferably lots of it.


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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today's Behind the Scenes Pic!
I know it's fashionable to hate Titanic, but having given it a recent (ie last 6 months) rewatch I gotta say I'm quite fond of the movie. I mean, there are three bad guys in the movie: Billy Zane, David Warner and an iceberg. I liked it upon release and I think it's still an incredibly strong movie. I genuinely feel for Rose and Jack. Hell, I feel for that immigrant lady Vasquez plays and her kids and we see them for all of 2 minutes in the movie!
It's scary how young both Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio look in the film. Time is moving, I'm getting old.
Anyway, this Behind the Scenes image shows James Cameron working with Winslet and DiCaprio as they prepare to shoot THE key image from the film. Thanks to reader Rajneel for sending it along and make sure to click for the bigger version!
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This 1998 green Dodge Diesel with a black bumper in the back and a bent bumper in the front was stolen yesterday from McKinleyville. The license plate number is 8H03641.
"I am disabled & my wheelchair was in the truck," writes the owner. "I was wondering if you guys could share this & help me get my wheelchair & truck back."
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It's officially happening. God is starting to prepare me for the arrival of a second child. The nights of full sleep, or even just waking up once to pee are officially over. It's now up to pee 3-4 times and rolling over every 45 minutes or so each night. My days of sleep and feeling rested are over, at least for a year.
And surprisingly, I'm okay with that.
But I have to say, I think I'm going into the arrival of this baby with much more mental preparation than I did with Gabriel. Here are just a few things I've learned from Baby 1 to Baby 2.
1. The first 3-4 weeks will totally suck. There is no getting around it. There will be no sleep. I will be completely exhausted. But it will eventually end and I will get into a rhythm.
2. I will absolutely take all the help I can get from family and friends. I am not super mom and God has put these people in my life for a reason. Sometimes that reason will be to take Gabriel on a play date or hold Dominic while I take a shower. I am not above asking for help.
3. The laundry and the dishes will pile up. Eventually I will get to them, but I am not going to stress out if my house is not vaccuumed and everything is not in it's proper place.
4. My husband is my biggest ally. We will work as a team to transition our family from 3 to 4.
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5. If I start to get sad or depressed, it's okay. But I will immediately let my doctor know and take action to get out of my slump as quickly as possible. I will not isolate myself from others and will try to get out into the world as quickly as I can.
I realize that with Baby 2, new insights will be realized and if/when we have Baby 3, I'll have even more things to add to that list. Right now, Baby D is measuring about 2 weeks early, so the arrival of our newest little guy could be here in just a month. Hopefully the transition to having a new child and Gabriel's transition to having a new brother will go smoother than I could ever imagine. Here's to God stretching me.
On another note related to preparing for Dominic's arrival, we've been working hard on getting his room ready. Michael and I cleaned out our guest bedroom, strategically hiding more junk in the garage and attic. Michael's been amazing, painting Dominic's room and being his perfectionist designer self, adding little touches that will make his room unique. I've been sewing like crazy and putting together Dominic's bedding set. I decided to make his bedding this time around and am happy to say that it's turning out fantastic! So far, I have the crib skirt and one crib sheet done. I'm about halfway done with his blanket, but it's coming along great too. I've included a couple of snap shots of his room and bedding in progress. It's not finished yet, but it's really coming together nicely and should be finished in the next couple of weeks. Our little guy is going to be stylin'!
I also celebrated turning the big 3-0 with an amazing 80's themed birthday party that Michael hosted for me. It was so much fun! Seeing an 8 month pregnant girl dressed in flash dance attire is a sight to see, by the way. I didn't even think it was possible to get my bangs that high anymore. My friends were great, dressing up and really getting into the theme of the evening.
I know the next several weeks are going to fly by and before we know it, we'll be a family of four. Right now, I'm just so thankful to be surrounded by good friends and family that are willing to come on the ride with us!
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A Journey of Rediscovery ~ an Inspiring Interview with Krista Wissing, MFT and Scott Parkhurst
April 20, 2013
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Krista Wissing, MFT, is a compassionate and skilled therapist who never forgot the college class she'd taken taught by John Fox of The Institute of Poetic Medicine (IPM). Years later, in partnership with Brain Injury Network of the Bay Area and IPM, she created The Rediscovery Project – A Poetic Journey for People Living with Traumatic Brain Injury. It is an expressive arts journey for survivors of Acquired Brain Injury. Over the course of 10 weeks, the participants opened themselves to one another through poetry and art. They sat in circle, took a risk, spoke up, listened well and became vulnerable. In the process, they took a giant step out of isolation and built community. Together they created an anthology of their poems and performed a public poetry reading. Join us this week as we talk with Krista Wissing and one of the participants in her class, Scott Parkhurst, about this life transforming project and what is next on their journey of rediscovery.
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Having suffered a childhood tragedy that spiraled downward into her teens and young adult years, she eventually turned things around and created a grief center that has brought healing to thousands of people. She recounts the full story in her book, Being There for Someone in Grief. Today, she serves as a Lifetime Emeritus Board Member of Tu Nidito in Tucson, Arizona, the parent agency for the organization she founded in 1988 called Children to Children, a Center for Children and Families in Grief.
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Pyramids...on yahoo.
If we're talking x-box live, I'm actually quite fond of Links. I kick ass at that golfing game!
blasterball or bejewled. something simple, but helps pass the time.
Speaking from an upper percentile of geekiness, I must confess my love of Star Wars: Galaxies, the MMORPG.
Teen Titans Battle Blitz
I am addicted to the pseudo-fantasy sports games over at www.whatifsports.com
Have never won a championship but sure is fun trying.
I'm still playing Starcraft/Brood War. I have yet to find an online RTS that holds up as well.
Look, if you honestly do not have anything to do for the next 3 weeks or so, go to www.popcap.com. Most of their games are the digital version of crack.
Pimp War www.pimpwar.com
Kindom of Loathing www.kingdomofloathing.com
Both are free, turn-based games.
um, does online poker count?
EverQuest...or as it's more commonly referred to as: EverCrack.
I've played every single popcap game. In fact, I was with popcap from the very beginning, when they only had three games. I used to spend my Saturday and Sunday mornings chatting with other Popcappers as we played Lucky Penny.
fetchfido, it has a .uk on the end of the domain name, dont remember the exact one
has a bunch of games
It just doesn't get any better then Kingdom of Loathing.
"Get The Instalanche."
...well, I think it's a game, so nyah. :P
Battlefield: 1942 is my favorite. It's an online WWII combat game which a) doesn't require monthly subscription payments, and b) doesn't involve character design or experience gains, so casual players (like, say, ME) don't get crushed by hardcore gamers with weapons and armor and skills we can't possibly match. (We get crushed by the hardcore players realworld skill at the game.)
Yahoo! Backgammon.
Also, is Popcap where BounceOut is? Man, that game is addicting.
(But I'm willing to dust off my copy of Postal 2 and share the pain with anyone who's interested)
It's not so much a game as puzzles:
Picture logic puzzles
Battlefield: 1942
Definitely UT 2004
The original is pretty cool too. 2003 sucks, though. For old school fun try "Descent"
CounterStrike or Natural Selection
Okay, I'll say up front that I'm such a girl, but I've always liked the games at Orisinal. (http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/)
My favorite is the bear/bunny ("Bungee Bear")one, but I also like the Herding Cats game.
Yeah, I know, they're like games for six-year-olds, but sometimes a person just doesn't want mayhem and stuff blowing up.
michele, I was a Penny Poker addict as well (so was my wife). What was your handle? I was "Webmonster".
I was SatanClaws. Really.
Here's a couple for you:
SW:JK:Jedi Academy, online lightsaber dueling. Bizzare dueling community. In-duel ettiquette, including bowing to your opponent. Plus double sided and dual lightsaber dueling. Being a dedicated SW geek, I can only say "Sa-weeeet".
Whoops, and MSN Checkers online.
Since I have always been a comic book fan: City of Heroes!!!
Joint Operations (heh, I said "joint")
I hate computer games. I'd rather clean house or pay bills than play.
Am I now banned?
Star Wars Galaxies as well.
It's been a great time waster during maternity leave. ;)
Fast, fun, easy to learn, hard to master. The best team-based online FPS out there. And the reason that so many geeks are pissed off when Half-Life 2 keeps getting delayed.
P.S. - AWP's are for pussies.
Hard to beat this one:
Ragnarok Online. It's a Korean MMORPG that has a 3d background and uses sprites for the characters (much like Diablo 2).
I play on the international server, thus I play IRO, as opposed to the CRO (China), the JRO (Japanese), or KRO (The home server that gets all the good stuff waaay before we do. Think six months to a year. Jerks) Korea.
Here's the url for the US (aka international) version: http://iro.ragnarokonline.com/
It's fun!
Rainbox Six 3 (Xbox, PS2, PC)
Ghost Recon (Xbox, PS2, PC)
Unreal Tournament (Xbox, PS2, PC)
Counter-Strike (Xbox, PS2, PC)
Halo (PC)
When they're release I'm pretty sure these will be awesome:
Doom 3
Half-Life 2
Halo 2
Did I mention Halo 2?
Because Halo 2 is going to be awesome. Really, just check out the Halo 2 gameplay video from 2003's E3 or some of the multiplayer screenshots
Phlinx and Word Whomp Whackdown at <a href=Pogo.com
Wah, michele, pls fix my HTML.
BF 1942 rocks my jock. Secret Weapons of WWII is the coolest expansion to a PC game ever.
Jet Packs, man. Jet Packs.
Enemy Territory. It's the free version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and is multiplayer only. Totally addictive, and you start from zero every time you play.
I also like Bookworm over at Popcap
Thanks a lot, Sharp... Now I'm hooked on that stupid puzzle pirate game. Crap and a half, man. If I get fired, I'm blaming you entirely.
Poker at www.pogo.com.
Thanks, Ryan, I'm nauseous! ;)
Guess the Dictator or Sitcom Character (as old as the internet and still the best)
Fly the copter
http://www.activision.com/games/vampire/ - Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption
I've been playing this for months. Best round so far: -17.
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. Haven't played it much, but it is a blast. Like playing hide and go seek, except you can break the seeker's neck. The only game I ever played that had better multiplayer action was Goldeneye 007 for the N64.
Oh, and you have to go here and click to the 100 greatest games of all time.
Lots of interesting games at eBaum's World. Some addictively stupid, and others somewhat, um... risque.
Oh, and if you've not seen it, there's a Strong Bad Email about video games. If you wait a few seconds at the end, you can play the games from the email. My personal favorite is the text-based adventure.
Bespelled...983,290 points. Gawd, I wanted a million. Just to see if it would register on the ticker.
Still to this day, ThunderWalker CTF for QuakeWorld is my favorite online game.
www.party poker.com. I'm actually up by about $70 bucks.
It steals your brain.
City of Heroes, a superhero game.
Ultima Online, I havent been this addicted since the dawn of the internet.
Hattrick - strategy sports sim
_think I'm gonna have to explore some of everybody else's addictions. You know, sample the various flavors of game-crack?
Lots of trivia. http://www.triviaspot.com/
is my latest favorite but all the cheating that goes on is frustrating.
Another BounceOut fan! It's at shockwave.com. I like it for the funny sound effects.
Orisinal is good, too. My favorites are "The Pond" (overhead view of duckling) and the charming "Pocketful of Stars" (crescent moon). "Chicken Wings" (chick with umbrella) is also good. Some others, like "Windy Days" (kite), are very tranquil.
I used to be addicted to 7 Seas (the pirate game) at popcap before they changed the scoring and made it harder. I actually got to level 104 where the game froze. I can't get anywhere near that now.
BTW did you know you can get unlimited points at Alchemy? At the lowest web difficulty you have 5 colors. Get to the point where you have one column for each of the colors, separated by a filler column where you put wildcards but are never completed. After that, just keep on refilling the color columns as they're completed. You never leave the level, and the points accumulate very slowly, but you can do it for hours.


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Nice. Have you noticed any improvements with ese81? I've tried ese53 and ese27, so I'm just wondering if ese81 is any different.
From ESE53? None. I wouldn't be surprised if ESE81 is just ESE53 with the root exploit hole fixed. If anything, ESE81 might be a tad slower.
My kernel at 1ghz was benching at 167ms on ESE53. This hits 210 at the lowest.
Devious google... also, if its slower, I'm no longer thinking I want ese81 custom roms. Stick with 53
Is the battery life any better?
My kernel might be slightly older code, too. Whether that has an effect on performance or not, I don't know. I built it like two weeks ago. ESE81 was built shortly after. I'll recompile another kernel here in the next few days and test it again.
Should be identical to ESE53.
Bleh, no reason to switch then.
No, not really.
I'm getting around 200 benchmarks on chevy's low voltage 1ghz kernel. BB 0.9 ese53.
How would I get them lower at 1ghz?
I dunno. My kernel is nothing special. Just 250/400/600/800/1000 at stock voltage and wifi tether.
Give me your kernel version listed under about phone, and we will compare versions.
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This is the front cover for a book called Moths by Karl Manders published by Random House. I did the foliage and barbed wire silhouettes for it.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
New book cover for Random House
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Merry Christmas wrapping paper design
Merry Christmas wrapping paper design... actually its just a wrapping paper design but its has a Christmas / winter feel to it.
ooh it's cold today...
ooh it's cold today...
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Sunday, December 03, 2006
Prints for sale
I have a small selection of prints to sell from the original series of Quiet Revolution illustrations. Their dimensions are 55cm x 38cm (slightly smaller than A2) and are priced at £200 each. There are six different images in total and numbers in stock are going down.
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Today's Guardian G2 magazine
I did the illustrations for this article in todays copy of the Guardian G2 magazine. Its an article about someone developing a terrible fear of the down journey on escalators written by Linda Grant.
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New tree bark drawings
This is the collection of drawings I have got together over the past two weeks. Yesterday I was out doing some photographic research for more bark to draw from in Alexandra Palace. It was a beautiful day and I have loads of new images to work with for the next batch of drawing. My main aim for these images is to make some lovely limited edition screen prints to sell, so watch this space. Also the frame for my next Japanese window screen has been built and is in the process of being painted so I shall be working on the design for that this week too.
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Teddington has been named as one of the best places to live in London in a top ten to be published in the Sunday Times, reports the Twickenham Tribune.
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How to scan film – Colour
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How to scan film – Colour by Guilherme maranhão
Well, we lost this post in the pre-vacation purge that the hosting company graciously bestowed upon me. So I have had to do it all over again. But it is here now. Guilherme maranhão is back with the second instalment on his scanning guides. In this one he works with a couple of different scanners to show different and useful techniques. Check it out.
This guide is an addition to the basic guide published earlier. In this guide we will focus on toning color images in a more practical way and will discuss two different scanners and their software, the Epson V600 and the Kodak/Pakon F135. The key word here is practical, my intention is to offer a simple, repeatable workflow that respects the natural colors of your film and doesn't take ages to complete, making film shooting more intentional and adequate in this digital world.
Again, I explain my choices a bit, the V600 is affordable and easy to get new and used anywhere in the world, well, at least easier. It is also easy to use. Resolution is not real and film holders have many complaints. The Pakon can only be found used, it scans 35mm negative film only (color or B&W), not the highest resolution, but it is practical in any other sense you can imagine, saving precious time!
So follow the instructions in the Basic Guide to load your negatives in your scanner up until you get to the preview step. Remember to select settings that will make the resulting scans easier to deal with, more bits and enough resolution, less contrast and sharpening, a tiff file. On Epson Scan software, for example, you can access the Configuration window, that has a Color panel that looks like this:
There are three possible Color settings for Epson Scan, No Correction will leave the images positive, corrected for the orange mask, but no contrast or color correction applied afterwards. Color Sync will be equivalent to a gamma adjustment or some contrast will applied. Color Control will change color on every image, like an Auto Levels function. I usually choose the middle one, so the software doesn't judge color beyond the conversion and at the same time I get some contrast to make using Lightroom easier, Lightroom has short range on contrast controls. Using this setting also helps with series of images on the roll of film so you can use same actions or presets later on, but is not that reliable as you can see when resulting images got imported into Lightroom.
On the Pakon scanner the output is always 24-bit, so getting some decent color before hand is a must. After the scanner previews all images on the screen I usually do a Select All command and dial in some color correction to all at once. In the example bellow I added 1 unit of Red, 3 units of Green and 4 units of Blue, decreased the Contrast by 2 units and increased Exposure by 2 units as well. The red outline on the previews indicates which images are being edited.
The Pakon scanner and its software is much more able to keep an entire roll of film shot at one place with one kind of light looking like that, as you can see here. This is the ideal situation after a series of scans of images pertaining to same job. To my understanding it reads the orange mask and uses DX-code to convert to positive while Epson Scan analyses the images individually.
So to illustrate this guide I picked an image of two gentlemen contemplating life from the top of their bikes as the Amazon River passes by in Macapá, Brazil. The Pakon scanner will make my job easier, but I'll show how the two scans (one from the V600 and one from the Pakon) of the same image come to life. This photo was shot on Fuji Press 800, a neutral film by my standards that has less than normal shadow detail, whenever possible I avoid adding black to it, as it may kill the image or make it too dark.
Will start with the one from the V600, here it is right after import to Lightroom, as I start to find the White Balance correction, it will change as we make changes to other variables. The original scan had a lot of blue and some green.
Both the white shorts and the white boat had mixed lighting from reflections, the brighter clouds getting some sun light seemed better as a target. The software added too much magenta and I removed about 20 units manually. Still not the best color, but something better to keep going.
Working against what really annoys me, did some cropping, while starting to get a grip on toning.
Increased exposure a bit while holding back the highlights (this is similar to a fill light, maybe), removed some saturation (something I regularly do with V600 scans) and started to add black until a very small bit of clipping appeared. Didn't feel a contrast curve was needed after blacks were introduced. On the other hand the contrast between skin and jeans was not really nice, looks like the colors are contaminated with each other.
Now the tricky part for the V600, Press 800 has a lot of grain, which I like a lot, this scanner doesn't really show it, messing it up, so I avoided any noise reduction and increased the sharpening to give some grain back to the image. Higher value for sharpening and a higher value for radius will you get you stronger lines, keeping masking away from zero and detail kind of low will not let the image be only about grain.
Interesting how the ICE on the V600 left the horizontal scratch just above the horizon on this image. The ICE implementation on the Pakon software was able to get rid of it.
The last step is to add some presence and then lower the WB correction some more as the contrast on the image had made it stronger.
The image from the Pakon usually comes with the WB that I don't feel the need to change. The clouds look white, so does the shorts and the boat. Looking at the jeans you see blue jeans and the same goes for skin. Someone could want a warmer image, using either some more yellow or split toning on the shadows.
My first step was to add blacks until I got a little clipping on the darker areas. Interesting to see how this film has little shadow detail and how clipping pops up in a bunch of different areas all at once.
The image from the Pakon shows some lighter borders so I applied some vignetting tool to darken them a bit. Not sure if there is distortion or not from the Canon 35mm f/2 EF, but I tried to fix something that was bugging me in this image as well. I don't really know why this image shows this when scanned at the Pakon.
Added some presence and saturation to give some punch to the image. Went on to crop the image and applied a graduate filter since the left side still appeared lighter to my eyes.
Here is a before and after so far.
One last step is to control the noise (I can see some different colors on the image grain) and to add sharpening to the image structure. With the Pakon I usually go for a lot of masking and zero detail to avoid loosing the beautiful grain it does.
Looking at the final image, I'm happier with the color on the jeans and leg you can see through the bicycle wheel. Seems more clear than the other scan.
If you got interested in learning more about the Pakon scanner, there is a Facebook Group devoted to it, it seems at the present the best online resource of used scanners and software to run this machine. It runs in Windows XP (or at least XP mode) only and for some people this is a deal breaker, it shouldn't be, this scanner is worth the trouble of having Parallels and a Windows XP install on your Mac.
In order to go deeper into the scanning process, one can always study on how to get linear gamma scans of the negatives and how to process them in Color Perfect plugin for Photoshop, this a more elaborate and complex process, requires more expensive software and may yield better and more controllable results after a bit of a learning curve. The Pakon scanner is not compatible with this workflow, but the V600 is, although kind of cheap to be used with so much scanning effort.
I'm a Brazilian photographer based in Sao Paulo. I photograph weddings to make a living and I have been interested in scanners for a very long time. You can see some of my personal work here: http://www.guilhermemaranhao.art.br/
Thanks for sharing your tips and technique with us Guilherme. If you have any tips of your own please comment below.
24 comments on "How to scan film – Colour"
I've got no time for this, creating a bad replication of the original.
Make a print, and present that on a real gallery; or use digital for the digital world.
I have a scanner and have scanned thousands of film pictures. And it took ages of my photographic life-time away. No more!
Go out and shoot.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great article with very useful tips. So if you want to be a professional scanning-master, this is an excellent start.
Thanks for your opinion Carlos, just like a##holes, everyone's got one.
Next time leave the attitude though.
I think Carlos made a fair point.
Such a rigorous method of processing your scans almost seems to defy the point of shooting film in the first pace. It replicates the digital work flow maybe a little too much, especially the correction of anomalies like lens distortion.
When I scan b&w film I prefer to only use levels in order to try and replicate the manipulation of contrast available in the darkroom. I think restraint in the adjustments you make is important but if this method suits your work flow then power to you.
Great article nonetheless.
Hi Michael, thank you for the kind words and f* uself!
kindest regards.
Hi Carlos,
Why bother to comment when you start with "I've got no time for this…"
If you ""have a scanner and scanned thousands of photographic pictures", did it take you that long to realise you didn't like it? Why didn't you print them like you recommend everyone else does? Maybe it wouldn't have been so hard if there was a nice easy guide to scanning around? Gee, I wonder where you might find that? Maybe you're just dirty that you never made it to "professional scanning-master" and so resent anyone who does it better than you did?
Have a good day.
Maybe Carlos went through the same process as me and countless others who had a big collection of slides and photos from the pre digital age?
My children wanted them as family history and for them, in this digital age, that meant scanning to digital media.
And yes, no matter how much time I took with the scanning, the colours on my 40 year old slides were always far superior to scans.
That's why when I shoot slides nowadays, I never bother to scan them.
I use digital cameras for stuff for posting on digital media.
Just my thoughts, as the Americans say, YMMV.
Wow. Could you be a little more rude? This is some useful information for those who like to shoot film and scan. So it's not for you. Move on, do your own thing, and leave those who like these sort of thing to do their own.
I agree with Carlos.
Even though those tips are good, it is a very time consuming process and the reward is not that great.
What you can get from a color negative scanned with a non professional scanner is a bit disappointing, and correcting those ****ing colors is a pain in the ass.
You loose a lot of what makes analog photography attractive.
If I had a place for myself, I'd rather buy an enlarger and print the negatives, then scan them to share online.
Thats why I suggest a combination of two programms called colorperfect and the famous vuescan software. Colorpefect has cost me 70€ recently but for my workflow its worth it. You scan it as a raw, which makes it for some scanners very easy too just leave them doing without being hours and hours in front of the scanner to tweak colour etc. then you use Colorperfect as a Photoshop Plugin to use the Rawfile and use the Filmpreset. In my impression its already really close to what you are used to professional labscans, then of course it cant be wrong to check wb and do a little bit of punch here and there, i mean you can still use hours of improving if you like, but you got with a rather short amount of time with this two programms already very nice results. The problem is mainly to find out about the right technique, this was the most timeconsuming issue, actually learning how to scan (and iam still learning about it). If you once are able to create a good workflow its far easier than most people think. And thats the reason why its great to have such Articles, or you will become frustrated as Carlos one day…..
With slides its again another thing, which brings me to idea I have to write about bellamy, which could make slide scanning aaaaaaaaaaaalot easier for all of us….
Scanning is a pain, color film even more.
Great article. As soon as Epson stop being dicks and solve my V600 problem, I'm going to put you tips to good use.
When I scan film, I don't usually make corrections in Lightroom. In my opinion, the charm and appeal of analog is lost for me if I go into Lightroom with my scans. Really good article though!
Good tips. I use a Nikon coolscan 9000 to scan. At first I would let the scanner make the change for me. I thought the photos looked good. Then I bought color perfect and started to do the linear scans. So much better. If you can do color perfect, its worth it.
Scanning colour is such a pain to get right.
I have tried Color Perfect with a Sprintscan 120, V700 and then Coolscan scans and now I own a Pakon and an Imacon but can never get it looking the way I like the colours on the Fuji SP-3000 scans and to a lesser extent the Noritsu.
The Fuji whites/greys and blacks are spot on and you don't get that those terrible skin tones etc – you generally can pick a V600/V700 scan a mile away unfortunately. The pinky hues in the concrete, the overly red skin tones, Of course it's all subjective and judging from Flickr most people are happy with the output.
It's a shame no-one has come up with a consumer grade scanner that gets things close to where they should be straight out of the box. I guess that situation isn't going to get any better now either :)
I'm going to give darkroom printing a go and see how it goes. That's a whole other steep learning curve but it will be fun to try a purely analogue path. Meanwhile it's off to the lab with the Fuji SP-3000 for my rolls.
Back on topic now.
I found I never got proper colours until I profiled my scanner using an IT8 target from Wolf Faust and Vuescan software. I profiled it once, colours come out perfect every time. I highly recommend it to anyone who scans colour film.
Good article, thanks.
Hi Michael,
Did you use the reflective target from Wolf Faust? I just got the Fuji print target, and I was wondering if you could point me toward some resources on using it with VS.
Hi Jun,
A web search of the two should land you there, I think it's on the VS website. The target I use is N121111, it just looks like a mounted slide, it's not reflective.
Carlos actually made 2 comments in his opening post. The latter complemented the article and the former questioned the logic of shooting film then scanning it.
I tend to agree with him on that.
I suppose it all depends on the target audience for your photos.
Yup, scanning is time consuming and scanning color is pain in the ass especially. I never know what are the "true" colors. But certainly less hassle than printing it in the darkroom, every single picture.
When I see the scans from the local fuji lab, even though they have oversharpened grain, they are usually just nicer than mine. I have Nikon 5000, scan with VueScan into DNG and then I play with the scans there. But I still feel that there is a color cast, too green, to magenta, can't seem to get good skintones … after a while I loose all senses of right colors and take a step back.
To address a point raised rudely in the beginning of the coments. I see a value in scanning the pictures. It is cheap, in general quickier than printing (takes me about one hour to do one fine art bw print on 50x60cm when I account for setup up and cleaning up the dark room) and provides the photographer with way to share and back up the photos. Scanning film is like having a digital camera, that has a soul, can last many years on a single battery (or even operate without any batteries), shoots at almost any temperature and does not weight a ton with an added option of printing photos in the dark room… well what's not to love here?
My thoughts exactly – my father has the Nikon 5000 and the scan quality is excellent but it's the same old issue with colour after Vuescan and then into PS or LR. While the Fuji scans are normally always over-sharpened and highly compressed (which is just a setting that can be changed), the colour is pretty much always spot-on straight off the scanner.
As you quite rightly point out – there are so many options with film and scanning is just one of them. You can choose to do so many things from processing through to scanning, printing in the darkroom – endless fun :)
I have recently been printing more photobooks of my work for my personal use. It is amazing all the things you worry about looking at a scan on a 27″ iMac screen melt away once you see your images in print. Even the lowest res Fuji scan from the local lab looks great in print. It serves as a reminder that it's always about the image and less about the pixel-peeping.
I believe this is not a very rigorous method of processing scans, I like to believe this is a very practical one. I haven't been able to find an easier route that leads to usable results so far, specially with the Pakon.
About crossing a line and using Lightroom and correcting anomalies, I guess it stands together with finding the "true color" of a picture, I believe each photographer is entitled to set his own rules for his work. These rules control how the work to be done interacts with available technology and that's usually what makes the challenge interesting to the photographer.
Just today I came home with a cheap flatbed scanner. I got myself a copy of Vuescan and spent some time getting things right on some BW negatives that I've developed at home.
Sure, it's a pain to get things right on just one image using a scanner, but I can't fathom building a darkroom at home, blacking-out every window, installing sinks, plumbing, getting safety lights, an enlarger, gallons of chemicals, etc., followed by valuable time spent setting everything up, mounting the film, exposing the paper, dodging, burning, dipping in one tray, then the next, then the next one, and then hanging, drying, mounting or whatever the hell you do, etc, etc.
To each his own, but I feel a hybrid workflow has many advantages.
The comments on this article are a microcosm of the Internet: caustic comments full of absolute nonsense.
@Carlos – perhaps this workflow is not for you. Fine. Wet print all you like. Some people don't have the space or ability to make wet prints, especially of colour film.
@Michael – you can't IT8 profile negative film. Can. Not. You're thinking of slides.
@murhayaa – there is no "true colour" of a negative film. Interpretation of the negative has always been part of the process.
The posted workflow isn't bad (I personally prefer the ColorPerfect/Lightroom method), but this level of criticism is ridiculous.
Lab scanners = film curve + paper curve
Consumer Scanners = film curve
You can edit your negative, raw scans until you're blue in the face. They will never look like Frontier, Noritsu or Pakon scans.
With consumer scanners it's best to stick with B/W or slide film. They can do a fantastic job on those types of films.


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