This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...are to ask ourselves how much of this subject's attention is due to light and shade contrast, which our color-correct plates will look after for us, and how much to color contrast, which will probably be chiefly conspicuous by its absence. Color And Size There is an interesting relationship between the color of an ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...are to ask ourselves how much of this subject's attention is due to light and shade contrast, which our color-correct plates will look after for us, and how much to color contrast, which will probably be chiefly conspicuous by its absence. Color And Size There is an interesting relationship between the color of an object and its image size which is often overlooked. Yet it must be a matter of almost universal knowledge and experience among photographers to have noticed how much brighter the colors of nature appear on the ground glass or finder. The small-scale image picture seems to concentrate and purify, as it were, each color, so that the different colors accentuate each other by contrast effect. On this point it may suffice to remind the reader of what has already been said on color contrast with the warning against being misled as to how much of the attractiveness of the focusing screen or finder picture is due to light and shade and how much to color brightness and color contrast. Do not forget that, with most finders at any rate, the scale of the picture is smaller than that of the corresponding negative, and that both color as well as light and shade are correspondingly accentuated by the smallness of scale. Also it is to be noted that contrasts of color effects vary appreciably according to the strength of light m which they are viewed. FOGGED NEGATD7ES A correspondent has sent us four negatives, three of which are much lacking in detail, all of which are gray and foggy. Our friend states that the pictures were taken in bright sunlight, 1-10 second at/: 6.3, filmpack, developed by Thermo method using M.H. developer, time 16 minutes at 73 degrees Fahrenheit. Three of the four films were considerably underexposed and we should assume that either our ...
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