On: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 David wrote: >> I like Litchfield, he is one of life's benchmarks, dont you think?
> Of what? Perhaps, yes I was being cryptic. Litchfield is a place where I never want to go. The man is invaluable, and reminicent of another time. Maybe it's a bit deep, but I like shallow people with a bit of glamour and panache. >From my own experience he is in fact, a very generous man:) >> some people think Snowdon is a mountain. A giant perhaps, but not a mountain. > Just more undestinguished surface as far as I'm concerned. He lets his subject stand for so long, they begin to sag under their own weight. I do not know how he does it, but the result I find fascinating. > > Thomas Holm concluded at the end of one of his very informative > contributions... > >> The morale is, just because the colours in a Macbeth colour checker is >> correct, it doesn't mean that real life images will be. Consequently if your >> image looks pleasing, who cares what the Macbeth colour checker looks like, >> unless your task is to shoot a reproduction of this particular target... >> > ...that colour, at the end of the day can be subjective. Well that was my > interpretation. Now where did I leave those rose tinted spectacles? Everyone's colour vision and sense of visual harmony is comletely subjective, only the interpretation of those qualities is objective in relation to a commom standard, as set by the implementation of calibrating and profiling. This means that an individual's visual sensibility is effectively translated with genuine fidelity in-thru-out the digital workflow. It is not possible to record 100% of what IS there, but it is possible to capture enough to emulate the essence of what WAS there. It intrigues me the way some photographers have a real flair for certain colours and tonalities that are always present in their work. Some times I do scanning and colour correction work for photo-pals of mine, and I always get them to describe the colours as seen from their memory. This enables me to approximate very quickly how to get an affirmative "yes" out of them, by empathising with their colour sensibility as every bit complete, but different to my own. Thomas knows exactly what he is talking about. Hope this helps William Curwen www.william.ws =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
