cummings66
Contributor
OK, I need some advice. I have a darkroom and do my own film and prints. For normal surface prints I have no problems at all, color is pretty easy for the most part. However, I have lots of problems doing color prints from my local quarry and can't seem to nail it down. Part of it I'm sure is that I can't seem to remember what the colors looked like beyond the highlights, vis is normally 5 to 15 feet so it's not like the ocean.
For you guys that do your own work, how do you handle a print from the conditions I outlined? I've sent out my prints and they come back more green than I recall, almost like they used the normal suggested starting filtration printed on the box. I can match that easily enough, but it's not right and I sort of think it's a yellowish green color. When I look at something I perceive as white, if I print it where it is white then the other colors are way off and I know it's not right. I've heard a persons brain will compensate to make a color come out as expected and maybe that's why it seems white to me, but maybe it's not in real life.
From the quarry's I've dove, they seem pretty similar lighting wise and so I'm curious if anybody has bothered to experiment with color in them and has any tricks they can tell?
For you guys that do your own work, how do you handle a print from the conditions I outlined? I've sent out my prints and they come back more green than I recall, almost like they used the normal suggested starting filtration printed on the box. I can match that easily enough, but it's not right and I sort of think it's a yellowish green color. When I look at something I perceive as white, if I print it where it is white then the other colors are way off and I know it's not right. I've heard a persons brain will compensate to make a color come out as expected and maybe that's why it seems white to me, but maybe it's not in real life.
From the quarry's I've dove, they seem pretty similar lighting wise and so I'm curious if anybody has bothered to experiment with color in them and has any tricks they can tell?