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Reminds me of a few (ahem) Good Times back in the Sixties that I sorta kinda remember...
Colour pictures taken with Leica Monochrom
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Freakscene
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Like the photos by @dourbalistar using this process, the colour in this one is amazing, unlike anything I’ve seen from a unified colour process. Great work.
DownUnder
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Hm. I could probably hand-color my images faster than it takes you to cobble one together.
Jokes (bad) aside, it's good to see some creative work being done in this genre.
As for me, I've often thought of saving up for a Leica Monochrome, and I confess to feeling some envy for those who have one. For now I make do with my four monochrome Nikons, two D700s and two D800s set on B&W. Not quite as good, but well, you know...
Myrrys.eu
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Sounds lovely, I kind of wish I had thought of that before I sold off my D700, D800E and D850 😅 only reason I sold them was moving to mirrorless systems (panasonic S5 & S5 II as well as now leica monochrom). Bit less bulk in the bag (mainly due to smaller lenses).
I feel like there's quite a bit of things to play with using monochrom to do trichromes. Besides I just love straight from the camera B&W with this thing.
You can always edit colour photos to match colours of trichrome, you could even mimic the not so perfect alignements with multiple shots. But I feel like this process makes me think colours in an interesting way and I hope I could make it show in the end results.
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Sorry about the subject matter repeating. This is my test bed now for the project I have in mind to do this summer. Here I tried to combine superresolution with trichrome. Making 8 exposures of each colour channel with minute movement in camera to process in photoshop. In the end I went to 5 times the original file size. I think the maximum gained resolution is actually only about 2,5 or 3 times (so next time I can back down a bit with the amount of work).
What I have in mind is large format print where the resolution is high, from normal viewing distance the process is pretty much invisible, but when you take few steps closer to the image you can find (and actually see) the minute misalignements in colours. I want it to be something which can be found, not something that stands out. (in what I'm cooking anyway).
Of course I also had to do some testing with clearly visible misalignements and I find this absolutely stunning. Something I'm sure to experiment at some point.
What I have in mind is large format print where the resolution is high, from normal viewing distance the process is pretty much invisible, but when you take few steps closer to the image you can find (and actually see) the minute misalignements in colours. I want it to be something which can be found, not something that stands out. (in what I'm cooking anyway).
Of course I also had to do some testing with clearly visible misalignements and I find this absolutely stunning. Something I'm sure to experiment at some point.
Myrrys.eu
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Of course as I visited Norway, I had to try one of these as well 🙂
DownUnder
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Join the club, you will be most welcome. We are a very large group...
DownUnder
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Me again. Many images in this thread remind me of Autochromes.
For those who may be unaware of what they are, Autochrome was a process invented in France in the early 1900s. It remained popular with photographers in the pre-color, B&W only era who wanted color in their images, until Kodachrome came on the film market in the mid-1930s.
When I was a young-'un in Canada (1950s) an elderly commercial photogapher in my home town, long retired, was still doing them as a pastime to keep himself occupied. He was friendly to me and I got curious about the process, which he explained in detail to me, but at the age I was most of the information he told me went way over my head. He passed away in his nineties in 1963 or 1964 and I have no idea what happened to his photographs or even if any have survived. If not, then a great loss as they were truly beautiful, worthy of framing and hanging on walls as photo art.
Fast track a few years. I was living in Montreal and I found two 'old wares' shops with collections of Autochromes on their shelves, most likely from deceased estates. I bought many and eventually had an impressive collection of 'pictorials' taken in various places in Canada. In 1975 when I left North America I disposed of most of what I owned - and foolishly sold off my Autochromes for a low price - one of the (sadly too many) bad decisions I've made in my life.
The National Library of Australia in Canberra has a collection of Autochromes in its archives. I saw those when I was working there in 2004 and 2005, but I've not been to Canberra or to that library since. That collection may still be with the library, but as we know times have changed and these rare and fragile images may now no longer be accessible to the general public as I understand many of the library's older items are now restricted. One can only hope a book of those will someday be published.
For those who may be unaware of what they are, Autochrome was a process invented in France in the early 1900s. It remained popular with photographers in the pre-color, B&W only era who wanted color in their images, until Kodachrome came on the film market in the mid-1930s.
When I was a young-'un in Canada (1950s) an elderly commercial photogapher in my home town, long retired, was still doing them as a pastime to keep himself occupied. He was friendly to me and I got curious about the process, which he explained in detail to me, but at the age I was most of the information he told me went way over my head. He passed away in his nineties in 1963 or 1964 and I have no idea what happened to his photographs or even if any have survived. If not, then a great loss as they were truly beautiful, worthy of framing and hanging on walls as photo art.
Fast track a few years. I was living in Montreal and I found two 'old wares' shops with collections of Autochromes on their shelves, most likely from deceased estates. I bought many and eventually had an impressive collection of 'pictorials' taken in various places in Canada. In 1975 when I left North America I disposed of most of what I owned - and foolishly sold off my Autochromes for a low price - one of the (sadly too many) bad decisions I've made in my life.
The National Library of Australia in Canberra has a collection of Autochromes in its archives. I saw those when I was working there in 2004 and 2005, but I've not been to Canberra or to that library since. That collection may still be with the library, but as we know times have changed and these rare and fragile images may now no longer be accessible to the general public as I understand many of the library's older items are now restricted. One can only hope a book of those will someday be published.
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Myrrys.eu
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Haven't done autochromes my self, but I have done plenty of gumprints, some from digital negatives but also some from negative separations done from c41negative into b&w negatives in darkroom. I feel like trichromes are very similar in mindset into making gum prints or colour carbon prints (which I've also done a few). Considering the artistic choice you have in selection of pigments, it's bit like a choice of filters to use in trichromes. Next stop is making decisions on how to print these.. maybe gum pints, or more modern way..
Freakscene
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Colour separations from C-41 with the orange RA-4 printing mask!!! I have cold sweats just thinking about that.
Myrrys.eu
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I know, only reason do it was my mentor pushing me trying it out. Not recommended, scanning (or using digital file to start with) and printing negatives is easier by a huge margin. But it did teach me a lot about process.
Freakscene
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It would teach you a lot about using non-complementary at best and antagonistic at worst materials!
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