Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I did a lot of Ilfochrome printing - maybe 15,000 finished prints in 2 years - in the dying days of that process being relevant, but I always measured everything with a reflection colour meter, because I could never learn to do it by eye. Maybe I'm colour deficient. I can see the cast in the manipulated version of this photo that Tina posted, of course, and i would manage it the same way George did, especially by decreasing contrast as a first step. I still wonder sometimes how many people there are who could still make a colour contrast mask for an ilfochrome print to manage crossover. Used to send me nuts that hue and saturation were so intimately linked. Then digital came and freed us from colour tyrrany, me from that job, and I went B&W for my own work. Now is the best place to be. Geoff is brave. I periodically look at the drawers of slides (I have tens of thousands of slides) shudder, and gently close it again. Marty On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > On Jan 16, 2012, at 7:25 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >> I suspect its the same with George. >> The other color cast which jumps right out for an experienced color >> printer >> is yellow. > > Yup. > A lifetime of getting the color correct > For clients who won't pay > Or ever hire you again if you don't > Makes one very color "cast" and "cross over" sensitive. > > Some have said, "to a fault." > Though they were not clients. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information