Negative Fun

This is a negative that had problems.  It is completely under exposed to the point where I almost didn't scan it.  But....the beauty of scanning is instant gratification via twiddling the histogram sliders.  I don't leave the sliders in a "Twiddled" state to complete the scan I set them so that the maximum data is acquired for 255 shades of gray.  Also aside from the dark image, which I kind of like by the way, are the two racing stripes that are consistant with water residue running down the length of the negative strip as it is hanging to dry.  I am not sure why this is happening as I used very clean wash water and wetting agent to help the water sheet off of the negative.  My next processing will utilize nylon negative clips of a different design that will not retain a little pocket of water to be released as the remainder of the strip had dried???

Given the issues mentioned above I cropped most of the gunk out of the picture then brightened and adjusted contrast to retain the overall creepy feel that I really like about this Happy Accident(Thank you Bob Ross).  I then imported the image into Aperture to use some of the Aperture Expert texture presets that I like, but don't get much opportunity to use.  I also ran this image through OnOne Perfect FX 4 because I really some of the effects available with that package also.  I believe that I used "Cross Process" and a "Dano" border, what ever that means?  A large version of the image can be viewed at my flickr site here is the link to the image:http://www.flickr.com/photos/brownda/8622282173/in/photostream