Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/16

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wash Day
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:27:34 +1030
References: <CB3A384C.19125%mark@rabinergroup.com> <B9A51018-66CC-4897-B606-4FAD0B1702FC@mac.com>

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.
>
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