[Rockhounds] achieving depth of field w digicam?

[J Bryan Kramer]

For scientific photography you are of course right Rik. Unfortunately there
is no such thing as an exact reproduction in photography. You can approach
that ideal but only by shooting a color target in each shot and then using
Photoshop to try to match the known colors in the target. A rarely done
procedure. You would also have to use a heavily color managed workflow and
the color would only be correct on a calibrated monitor. If you printed the
photo you would have to soft proof the file and color manage the printer and
paper.

Variations in the lighting used will radically affect the reproduced colors
otherwise.

BK

Indeed. So I will be very short this time.
> Anyway, for me (most of) my arguments stay valid, although some of them
> can be interpreted the other way.
> The most important principle for me is : a photo should show only things
> that were really there. Otherwise it's fake.
> I heard several times the word "art". Well, I'm not an artist when
> photographing.
> I just want good images of my minerals, with as little effort as possible.
>
> Grts,
>
> Rik DILLEN
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"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of
reality with which we create our own private world."
Arnold Newman


J Bryan Kramer
North Florida, USA
photos at:
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