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ADDITIVE COLOR PHASE 1---COLOR PLAY@THE PlAYGROUND

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Description

 At last… it’s been a long-term project to work out the linguistics. The image is still rather rudimentary in design and concept (proof of concept project) , it does bear the seed of success (rather crudely).

 

Particulars

 

Image: Local playground, Carson City, NV. Metered gray card / ISO 500 / F25 @ 1/250. Modified PQ image receiving sheet / expired film 03/2014.
Camera Body: Modified Harman-Titan w/150 mm cone and pistol shutter release grip.
Lens: Symmar-S 5.6-45/180mm, Copal 1 shutter T B 1-1/400, mounted on Fotoman 180mm Helical Focus LT mount/5.5ft.to infinity.
Viewer: Digital cradle mount. Metering: GE DW 68.
Focus Aid: Bosch laser tape measurer.
Film: Polaroid(r) 8x10 cassette / Impossible B/W PQ 8 X 10 film and handcrafted experimental film / Modified receiving sheets.
[Assembled/modified from market-place components]

Scanner: 8 x 10 Film scanner was unavailable, so a Polaroid Z340 Digital was used with the transparency on a light table and a diffuser to soften the screen pattern.

 

Enhancements: The only enhancement was importing into Photo Studio 5.5 with 100 percent saturation because of the pale colors were mixed with the black silver in the image receiving sheet.

 

Notes: 

One thing about additive color is the colors can be changed to suit my mind’s eye of the scene. Both monochromic/color film materials will lose its ISO sensitivity as time pasts.One advantage with a monochromic negative and additive screen has, is it lessens the color bias that unexposed color multi-layer film negative is heir to as it ages. Even with much hair pulling (I don’t have much anyway), it is a fun project.

 

The next (Phase 2) will be, a more handcrafted integrated screen and a new silver nuclei image-receiving sheet (like some of my smaller images in the archives). The images then should resemble a hybrid between the obsolete Autochromes of the 1900;s and the Polaroid Polachromes. 

Please excuse some vignette at the image plane, but that was expected.
 

Next Project:

Unknown….so please stay tuned…if you have an interest in such things. Thank you very much for having a peek.

Take Care All and Good Health.
From the Desert of Long Shadows…..John Gee

Image size
1320x1743px 1.69 MB
Make
Polaroid
Model
Z340
Shutter Speed
1/60 second
Aperture
F/3.2
Focal Length
8 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Jan 1, 2011, 5:03:32 PM
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
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garbanzo-chickpea
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Nice work! Like the subtle colors. Have been doing additive color since the late 1970's. Computers and software have made it possible to get desired results — from reasonably realistic to fabulously distorted. A few very old and a few very recent examples may be seen on my Instagram feed (garbanzo_chickpea). My initial tiffs, made from the RGB layers, look a bit like your photograph. I usually export jpegs and play with the gamma, exposure and contrast, and, many times, the color balance and intensity to get something that I'm happy with. I have always used 6 X 6 format cameras for these. Started with a Zeiss-Ikon Super Ikonta B and Kodak Panatomic-X film. Now use Rollei SL-66 most recently loaded with FomaPan 100 and my last roll of Kodak Royal-X, which I'd kept in the freezer for thirty+ years. Tried to find some unexposed Autochrome plates, years ago. No luck. Would've been fun to coat a modern emulsion on them. Good luck with your experimentation.