I recently returned from a couple of OS tours & having got all my photos developed, I noticed that some of them had green patches on them. Does anyone know of what could possibly have caused these green patches??? (Fuji print film 400ISO)

Can you give us a better description of these green "patches"? Were the effected shots from the same roll(s), under similar conditions (sunlight, night)?

Mercury vapor light will show up as green in night shots. By chance??

Glenn

ClareS, also were the green patches along the same edge of the affected photos (possible light leakage)?

The affected shots were taken during the day & they were from different rolls of film.
The green patches were quite often in the middle of the photo - not necessarily at the edge of the affected photos.

I suspect I was shooting into the sun for at least some - if not all - of them. There were a few times where I was thinking of taking photos & ended up not bothering because it would have been right into the sun & I didn't think they would turn out. Obviously I didn't take the sun's position into consideration all the time when I was using my camera. Oh well.

I could scan them into my computer & try & edit the green patches out on computer I suppose, but not being in the practice of editing photos, I'd probably just end up botching them up & making them look worse.

Clare, one nice thing about scanned images, if you foul them up, you can just rescan.

What software are you using to edit?

Glenn

Hi Glenn,

Yes you're right about just being able to rescan the photo if I stuffed up editing it (or take the lazier way & work off another copy so I don't have to rescan it! - how lazy is that?!?!)

The software that I have to edit photos is just what came with my (Canon) scanner. ie. ArcSoft PhotoStudio 2000 or ArcSoft PhotoBase (which sounds less like photo-editing software than the PhotoStudio 2000 package - sounds more like an electronic photoalbum/slide show type package from the description). I doubt very much that the full packages of either were included with the scanner (I could be wrong about that however).

Any suggestions??

Clare

Reasonbly priced but with most of the tools is Photoshop Elements. Web dealers have it in the $80 range.

Glenn

Thanks for the tip Glenn, I'll check it out.

Clare