[Rockhounds] achieving depth of field w digicam?

[Rik Dillen]

You are completely right, Bryan. No print is exactly the same (colorwise) as the image on the screen and/or what we
really see and probably even what someone else sees !
Grts,

Rik DILLEN 
Doornstraat 15,  B-9170 Sint-Gillis-Waas 
Belgium 
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From: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of J Bryan Kramer
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] achieving depth of field w digicam?

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
> Doornstraat 15,  B-9170 Sint-Gillis-Waas
> Belgium
> E-mail rik.dillen at skynet.be
> Homepage : http://users.skynet.be/rik.dillen
>
> MINERANT 2008  -  26-27 April 2008
> Bouwcentrum (Antwerp Expo)
> Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 191 Antwerpen
> http://www.minerant.org/mka/minerantnl.html
> Mineral collector's page http://www.minerant.org/
>
>
>
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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:
http://pbase.com/photoburner


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