# Getting 'clean' look **URL:** \ **Category:** Image Editing Help\ **Created:** [June 21, 2022, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/getting-clean-look/5076 "2022-06-21T11:35:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LetterBeacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@LetterBeacon](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/LetterBeacon)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/getting-clean-look/5076/1 "2022-06-21T11:35:58Z")
I’m a big fan of the look that James Harvey-Kelly gets - a really clean sort of feel. You can see his work here: [https://www.jamesharveykelly.com/](https://www.jamesharveykelly.com/) When I edit my photos I can’t seem to get them as clean as this, there’s always something about them that looks a but affected. Does anyone manage to get their images looking close to this, and do you have any tips? I’m using the latest NLP, the Negative Supply holders, digitising with a Sony A7R3 with a Sony 90mm Macro lens. ---
**Author:** ![Digitizer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Digitizer](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/Digitizer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/getting-clean-look/5076/2 "2022-06-22T18:56:04Z")
Looks like Harvey-Kelly’s images were shot on large format film… There’s no way to get such a clean look from 35mm film or a digital FF shot. ---
**Author:** ![LetterBeacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@LetterBeacon](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/LetterBeacon)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/getting-clean-look/5076/3 "2022-06-22T19:50:21Z")
I’m not so sure about it being large format. A lot of his film borders look to be a mixture of 6x7 and 645. ---
**Author:** ![Harry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f6c823/32.png) [@Harry](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/Harry)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/getting-clean-look/5076/4 "2022-06-23T08:43:41Z")
I’d not heard of this photographer but he’s clearly very good and refreshingly there’s not much on the internet about what cameras he uses so he likes to keep it to himself. We can probably take it that most of the film rebates are genuine (some I think are not, especially those surrounding an image with a brand logo super-imposed) but there’s a mix of 5x4, 645 & 6x7 depending I suspect on circumstances. What intrigued me was that some have the aperture and shutter speed super-imposed on the rebate, neat. This is apparently specific to the Pentax & Contax 645 film cameras but I hadn’t seen it before. As well as the ‘clean’ look you’re also probably referring to the consistency in ‘look’ between scans, something that others have asked regarding NLP and Nate answered in another post. Here for example: > [@Matching Lab Colors without success](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/matching-lab-colors-without-success/5044/6): > > Hi @xsnudes , Yes, it is possible to get your camera scan very close to your lab scan with just a few simple adjustments in Negative Lab Pro, and tweaking in Lightroom’s HSL panel. [nlp-lab-scan-emulations] The most important adjustment above is adding yellow and magenta to the “highs” color tab. This gets the color balance closer to this particular lab scan. Using “LAB - soft” and adding both “Lab Glow” and “Lab Fade” helps bring the tonality closer. And finally, to match the color of the re… ---
**Author:** ![LetterBeacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@LetterBeacon](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/LetterBeacon)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 11:16am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/getting-clean-look/5076/5 "2022-06-23T11:16:27Z")
Thanks Harry, I’ll check out the link. Yes both the Pentax, the Contax 645 systems and the Mamiya 645 system allows the camera to print the data on the negative - it’s very useful sometimes! ---
**Author:** ![Harry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f6c823/32.png) [@Harry](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/Harry)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/getting-clean-look/5076/6 "2022-06-23T12:02:28Z")
This one as well, in fact I expect he gets asked this a lot: > [@How does NLP handle different film emulations?](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/how-does-nlp-handle-different-film-emulations/2202): > > Really elementary question (I hope I didn’t miss this somewhere in the how-tos): how do I tell NLP what film stock I’m using? Or does this happen automagically within the brains of NLP? How do I get a true representation of the colors for a particular film stock? For example, are my scans of Fuji 400H going to look like Fuji 400H and my scans of Kodak Gold going to look like Kodak Gold? There’s “Fuji” and “Kodak” options in the color dropdown in the NLP window. Is this the only amount of gr…