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woah awesome ^ whats your set up on those shots?
don't say that. ektar is the best film for night shots.
Edit: Or maybe it's the place I'm getting it developed.
It may be the development, but that seems unlikely. Have you compared with another lab? Ektar is a warm tone film, so it may be the case that the scanner, if it's on auto, is getting confused and over-compensating. If it's that, then you just need to adjust the curves set for the scan. I generally tweak the curves for every scan, regardless of film, even when they are from the same roll. I'm not sure how the exposure would cause a warm film to turn cool, but who knows. Strange things happen on film, especially with the long exposures needed for nights shots with 100 ISO. The exposures look good on the jpegs, but of course those aren't necessarily an accurate representation your negatives. Are you compensating for reciprocity failure?
http://dreuxsawyer.blogspot.com/2011/12/reciprocity-failure.htmlHere are a few shots of mine using Ektar. Although these jpegs are fairly warm still, I cooled the tones down to where they are. Shooting film and processing digitally really makes me wish I had a room to set up my color enlarger. I have made c-prints of these and they look much better. Analog to analog reduces so much of the unnatural color phenomena that you get with scanners interpreting film.
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