They often will spend hours testing and setting up studio lighting equipment above, below, at the rear and frontal just to get the right lighting for the subject. It accounts for good color saturation and lets you get the most from the film you're using. Early morning and late day lighting is best outdoors. It hasn't been that long ago when the only people who could justify the high price of a digital scanner were those commercial and business firms who had need for a lot of digital photographs. They've dropped in price and now are commonplace sitting right next to the color printer on the desktop, ready for quick and frequent use.
Digital photography is fun.
Scanning is fun. Scanning is not a science. Scanning has a learning curve to it. We hope to be able to shorten that learning curve time here. Select how you intend to use the scanned photograph.