Tuesday, September 8, 2009




Here's a couple images from my BFA portfolio, I was shooting without any sort of color correction filter, which created compromised decisions during the print process.




Even though these were scanned, they scanned with practically the same bias as my papere's starting point.

In order to ease the color correction process, I made tests from the part of the image that contained a lot chalk writing. I would correct until the white was closest to neutral as possible. As you can see in this image the color of the sky was thrown off dramatically, and is now rendered a strong cast of pink and purple. It's almost as if, since the white chalk is only the subject that is rendered true, its message becomes reinforced. I just made that up, but I do think there's some truth to it.




In this image you can see a strong magenta cast along the bottom of the image, a red cast along the right edge, and a greenish-cyan towards the left edge. In the future I plan on investing in a color meter and most likely a wide assortment of color temperature filters; however, I do enjoy that aspect of chance and consequence that gets played out by exposing daylight film to a multitude of mixed light sources.

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