I've gotten several responses by private mail suggesting Photoshop <sigh>. That's easy enuf to do, and I can think of several ways to accomplish that. I guess with color film, unless when uses tricky lights, this same effect can't be accomplished. What's a notch filter?
Some time ago I photographed a sculpture with the same rusted color against a wall of green ivy. Using B&W film, filters, exposure, and proper development for the effect, I got the sculpture to appear white (very light grey) against a virtually black background. While this is an extreme example of what I'd like to do, I was hoping that something similar could be accomplished using filters, exposure, and, perhaps, processing with color film. This sculpture is lit at night, which may give me a result that's similar to what I want, but really, anyone could make that photo, and it still wouldn't be quite what I envision. Shel > [Original Message] > From: William Robb > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shel Belinkoff" > Subject: A question for color film users > > > >I know how to control contrast and tonality with B&W film, but how does one > > do it with color? For example, there's a piece of artwork that I'd like > > to > > photograph. It's rusted metal and the background is green grass. I'd > > like > > to photograph it in such a way that the grass is much darker and the art > > work is lighter, resulting in more contrast between the two. Is this > > possible? > > I think Photoshop is your best answer. > Play with the green channel. > The nice thing about black and white is that you can screw around with it's > colour response and not get wonky colour. > But, it is an interesting thought to do it on film. I wonder what a notch > filter of somewhere in the green band would do. > It would be quite an expensive experiment. > > William Robb >
