On: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 Ashley Karyl wrote: > Have you tried Photokit. Its worked well for me on the few occasions I've > tried it.
No, I haven't. In fact I gave up on the idea of emulating grain, as the grain affected by exposure light actually wraps itself around its own shadow, or negative space within the emulsion during development. Grain is a three dimensional structure, whereas noise grain emulators are two dimensional and the illusion is fictional, rather than literal. It ain't grain. I do use noise filters to plug holes in pictures, and if used succinctly, do save the day. My belief is that processed negatives are in truth, fuly three dimensional colour holograms made of incoherent light. We cannot read them, and can only see the surface appearance of the light activated grain. The result, although two dimensional as a recorded image - does contain a vast amount of monocular three dimensional information. Monocular? that is; most depth cues are due to the play of light, rather than volumne cues which are secondary to the way we process three dimensional visual information, when moving around in a three dimensional environment. Volumne cues keep us from losing balance and falling over, and depth cues show us where the food is. I find film sympathetic for recording what I feel is the 'physical prescence' of my subject matter, as I know that light burrows its way into the emulsion as depth information. With digital, the light just sits on a top layer of pixels - one pixel deep, and that is a profound difference for me, and I like it a lot. I think this new Hassy film/digital hybrid is a must see. best William Curwen www.william.ws =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
