Monday, July 13, 2009

Skin and hair - photo impressions

One of the early methods of taking color photos was to use three cameras. Each camera would have a color filter in front of the lens. This technique provides the photographer with the three basic channels required to recreate a color image in a darkroom or processing plant. Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin Gorskii developed another technique, with three color plates taken in quick succession.

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