I would suggest shooting an image of the color bar at the start of each
session, maybe not in every image. But it would be helpful later trying to
match color and value.
Frank Thomson, Curator
Asheville Art Museum
PO Box 1717
Asheville, NC 28802
828.253.3227 tel
828257.4503 fax
www.ashevi
Dear Colleagues,
We are about to digitize a collection of photo albums containing
1910s/20s photographs; while they are black and white, many have
discolored and turned sepia over the years. Since these are fragile,
bound volumes we will be doing this through photography rather than
scanning. W
And don't bother with the Kodak cards - get the Gretag Macbeth ones instead.
(they usefully come in a couple of sizes as well).
(especially, don't rely on old colour charts you may have around from the
days when you had a photographer 7 or 8 years ago. They fade over time and
the colours also fad
At the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, our imaging
department places a Kodak color bar and grayscale within every scan. We replace
the targets every 6 months or so and keep them in their enclosures within light
tight drawers to minimize fading.
Just yesterday, one of my
