Category: visual mind

tech Tuesday: Visual Mind

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Diffusion sheets as dodging devices. Frederick Sommer. Key thinker. And he was very much a thinker; about photography in the specific and in the other bigger container.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.
The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions
Frederick Sommer General Aesthetics, 1979
Words not spent today
buy smaller images tomorrow
Frederick Sommer(Aperture, 1962

making Neutrals

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a labnote on making neutrals from components. This is color theory notebook item.

Key: “concepts of selective and nonselective neutrals are of great importance in understanding many aspects of color photographic theory and practice.”

The curvy stuff adds up to the same grey, but will not look the same.

[This is why we used more than one type of film to make separations from. At least partially why.]

Not all should be linear, if you are after more impact of color — an increased color response comes from understanding the more that additive mode.

[ this is from Evans… my bib page ]