Re: Light box screen match
Re: Light box screen match
- Subject: Re: Light box screen match
- From: "john castronovo" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:14:37 -0400
The question you're raising is, why are the transparencies that dark?
Chromes of fine art usually have too much contrast and to avoid washing
out the highlights, photographers will underexpose them and view them
with too much light so as to be able to look into the shadows better.
Personally, I adjust the processing and flash the film. Anyway, it's up
to
the post scanner operations person to open up these images to full
scale. If you've matched the chrome, you have every right to adjust
levels according to the gray scale (there is one in the shot right?) so
that the whitest patch is where it needs to be.
john castronovo
tech photo & imaging
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fleisher, Ken" <email@hidden>
Lou,
Thank you for your note. The workflow that you have described is exactly
what I currently do and I also am able to achieve a very good match
under
these conditions. My problem that I'm trying to explain is that when the
light box is set to visually match the monitor in luminance, then the
transparency on the light box has an appearance that is now much dimmer
than
the "standard" viewing condition for transparencies. The result is that
the
image is being matched to what I am calling an "incorrect" appearance.
Because the color-managed workflow is working very well, this appearance
is
then propagated down the imaging chain, resulting in final results that
are
too dark. In other words, my prints look just like a transparency that
is
viewed on a light box that is too dark.
You say that you achieve a good visual match to the trans, but are you
happy
with the images? Don't they seem too dark?
Ken
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