Again, thanks. I’m pretty sure that this is how it would have looked when shot. However, since I’m trying to get back to the look of the actual film, There’s just no way it ever looked this nice back then. There was definitely a warming filter applied to the Tatooine scenes, as evidenced by Poita’s scans
and even these photos from Ebay show:
And after I’ve white balanced the frames:
Notice how similar this is to Poita’s frame!
After applying a single cooling filter, these scenes look a lot more natural, but it’s obvious that this isn’t how they looked on the film since the borders are now blue:
Of course photos can’t be trusted etc etc, but Poita’s scan and others are in agreement on this point. Also, it’s not that this reel is faded, since these shots come from the same reel, sandwitched between yellow Tatooine scenes:
My first grade of these scenes had them looking a lot like this dusty warm filtered film, but upon reviewing it would be a whole lot prettier if it looked like the original photography, and how I’ve graded Mos Eisley in the canyon. So what do you think should be done?