There are essentially three kinds of color. Ideal Ideal color (often thought of as accurate color) is produced when the color of objects is unmodified by temporal or atmospheric effects or enhancement. Forensics and product photographers favor this type of color. Ambient Ambient color is...
Color has 3 elements – luminosity, hue, and saturation. All colors can be described as some combination of these three values. While we see all three elements simultaneously in a single color, learning to distinguish these three elements from one another is an important perceptual...
Transparent colors contain a rich clarity that makes them seem charged with light. Incorporating the effect of transparency into your images can produce a luminous impression, even though (typically) the media your images are reproduced on contains no light While the true effect of transparency...
Learn new ways of seeing and enhancing color. Use 3 elements of color (Luminosity, Hue, Saturation) to adjust three types of color (Ideal, Ambient, Synthetic) and craft a unique palette that’s right for your authentic vision. Here’s a short excerpt from my DVD. Learn more...
During my White Sands, New Mexico workshop, we’ll be photographing in the same area for the next four days. On our first sunrise shoot, I timed the light and how it affected subjects. 5:45 Color on horizon 6:00 Color in sky 6:15 Color bright on...
I’m selecting the winners for The Center for Fine Art Photography’s upcoming juried exhibit Elements of Water. You could be included if you enter by November 17 . Theme Water is both physical and symbolic. Water can be a solid, liquid or gas. It covers...
Noise comes in three types or patterns: 1) Random noise 2) Fixed-pattern noise 3) Banding noise Noise often has two components—brightness and color: 4) Image noise 5) Luminance noise 6) Chrominance noise Knowing the type and kind of noise produced will help guide you to...
Inkjet prints survived floods where silver gelatin prints didn’t. It’s one of the worst situations. Your life’s work is immersed under water. Tina Freeman found herself in that situation. She was amazed to find that many inkjet prints had survived where many silver gelatin prints...
” … The change from one moment to another was dramatic. Bright sun. Shadow. And, to my surprise, there was a beautiful quality of diffuse light when the sun was struck by the edges of each cloud. Some clouds were thicker than others. Every moment...
Fresh with the release of his new book Visual Poetry, Chris Orwig provides this insightful guest blog post. Get a sense of who Chris is before reading this, view/listen to his short video introduction to his new book. Hello It is a privilege to have...
