color film
Carol Roman
They have a poster displayed that is colored in pale soft tones. Looks
somewhat like it's hand colored. I've asked the teacher what it is, and
she didn't know. Is there a color film that has pastel soft colors?
Thanks...Carol Roman
Bert Miller
wrote:
Carol,
The print will have soft pastel colors IF, IF, IF they lie in
the subject, if a relatively low contrast film such as VPS III or the
new Kodak Portra NC type films are used, AND IF the gamma of the
negative and the gamma of the printing paper are reciprocals.
--
bertm...@laguna.com.mx (Bert Miller)
The MILLER METHOD III
sensitometry-based, computer-controlled color Printing
Tim Shoppa
>
> On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 06:33:50 -0800, Carol Roman <car...@metro.net>
> wrote:
>
> >About Color....I'm currently taking a photography class at the local JC.
> >They have a poster displayed that is colored in pale soft tones. Looks
> >somewhat like it's hand colored. I've asked the teacher what it is, and
> >she didn't know. Is there a color film that has pastel soft colors?
> >
> >Thanks...Carol Roman
>
> the subject, if a relatively low contrast film such as VPS III or the
> new Kodak Portra NC type films are used, AND IF the gamma of the
> negative and the gamma of the printing paper are reciprocals.
There are some "non-conventional" processes that can produce
pastel-like colors, too. The most common one lately is the
Polaroid transfer. And any color separation technique can be
manipulated to do things to color saturation as well.
For a while, one of my favorite techniques was to take a high-speed
color slide film (Agfa 1000 was available for a while, as was
some 1000 speed and 1600 speed Scotch/3M stuff) and push it by
several stops. The end result was incredibly grainy, of course, but
the colors were often transformed in wonderful ways. It's been
several years since I've done any of this, and since then these
particular films have been replaced by "new technology" films that
may very well have entirely different characteristics.
Tim.