Category: overnight notes

overnights: June 13/23

Posted on Posted in minimum daily requirement, morning wood, overnight notes, studio table 
knowing gamma
mask easier to calculate effect on final

where use
— range
— percent

drew is the hero of his own lies: calvin and drew are opposites

TOP of the useless knowledge..
top atop the skill
pile of useless skills
johnston

libertarians are those who gave up thinking about efficient/,oral and became bad financeers
the center doesn’t exist
eSig X
welcomed by the oh gees
self-worth hung on a format or process

chinese plaster board in the 80s: was it the coating or the board

original & mask
up or down
— contact or projection
the physical parts of process
abstracts are color, density, and range
single / multiple
use of effect of


able to believe what they already believe
trust dies, mistrust thrives
TLG

Hartmann: Stieglitz
Newhall:: Adams
Szarkowski::Egglleston

AI:: pureprint, Jones
Landscape Formula Forum
desperate woman from Prague seek desperate men from Pittsburgh.

auteur vs F64
left coast envy of Stieglitz
to diffraction and beyond

Making Grey

Posted on Posted in dye transfer, overnight notes, the Lab, Theory

Principles of color photography.

neutrals

Selective and nonselective neutrals– a foundation concept in the technology of color photography. The illustration that we have many paths to grey, none of them is the perfect path. For any decision about a colorant (dye or pigment) we must consider more than making a neutral, even a set of dyes making a neutral results in different color volume. This is the why a film looks different: the relationships among the real color and the created color. Industry chooses the colors that they can sell. Old texts, as well as the experiments, remain useful, valid today. They form the foundation. Those equations are accurate — math has a way of doing that.

The means to the solution. The tools of presenting or testing, examining the experiments have changed drastically since the foundation years. We can readily present to others results they couldn’t imagine. That has changed the learning, not the theory.

we can easily compare gamuts using at hand Apple tools. this color cube is what a set of balanced Kodak dyes from dye transfer (1985) covers compared to the background cube of an HP Z printer on glossy baryta paper from 2015.

Clearly, implementation of the theory has advanced.

dye transfer color inset into HP inkjet

Key names: Evans, Friedman, Spencer, Wall.

  • R. Burnham, “Visual Selection of Color Film Neutrals,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. 48, 215-224 (1958).
  • W. Brewer, W. Hanson, and C. Horton, “Subtractive Color Reproduction. The Approximate Reproduction of Selected Colors*,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. 39, 924-927 (1949).
  • Wall, History of Three-Color Photography
  • Friedman, History of color photography,
  • Spencer, Colour photography in practice
  • Evans, Principles of Color Photography