Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 3:24 AM +0200 05.5.7, Philippe Orlent wrote: >Why not put a colorcard next to your dad's paintings when shooting. This way >you'll have a reference, no matter what media you're using. If you do this at the beginning of the shoot, you should be OK as long as you hold the lighting constant. So you only have to take one photo of the Greta Macbeth card (the most famous brand). The only problem is that some pigments are metamerismic. They basically reflect light differently depending on whether they are under natural, tungsten, or fluourescent light. In this case, there is no accurate color for them and you have to color balance by eye. Karen -- Karen Nakamura http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/