Color grading film scans (and inversion) - please help
Howdy,
I would love some tips and guidance on inverting + color grading my film scans. I am pretty new to film dev and color grading. I really enjoy darktable, but I am not a whiz at it yet by any stretch. I find getting "true-to-life" colors very difficult. I generally think my results are fine/pleasing to the eye, but not correct. I generally have some kind of color cast (usually blue).
My process is:
Orientation
Negadoctor (using dropper on film border)
Crop
Then some combination of: dynamic range adjust, rgb levels, color balance sliders (sometimes optimize luma)
Contrast adjust
I do raw scans with a Nikon Z50 and an ipad, for now - wondering if the ipad light is my source of the color casts
Open to any and all tips for how to do this better. I have seen videos on white balance, but negadoctor sets that for me, as I understand it, so when I follow the advice I have found on YouTube, Darktable gets very upset at me for setting multiple white balance points
Thanks!
p.s. shots not my finest work -- shots from a moving car through rural Florida