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Colour photography

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography

Color photography is photography that uses media capable of representing colors, which are traditionally produced chemically during the photographic processing phase. By contrast, black-and-white (monochrome) photography records only a single channel of luminance (brightness) and uses media capable only of showing shades of gray.

In color photography, light-sensitive chemicals or electronic sensors record color information at the time of exposure. This is usually done by analyzing the spectrum of colors into three channels of information, one dominated by red, another by green and the third by blue, in imitation of the way the normal human eye senses color. The recorded information is then used to reproduce the original colors by mixing together various proportions of red, green and blue light (RGB color, used by video displays, digital projectors and some historical photographic processes), or by using dyes or pigments to remove various proportions of the red, green and blue which are present in white light (CMY color, used for prints on paper and transparencies on film).

Monochrome images which have been "colorized" by tinting selected areas by hand or mechanically or with the aid of a computer are "colored photographs," not "color photographs." Their colors are not dependent on the actual colors of the objects photographed and may be very inaccurate or completely imaginary.


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Photographers associated with colour

Christopher Burkett

Christopher Burkett is widely regarded to be the greatest American color landscape photographer working today. Still using his 8x10 view camera, he has dedicated his life to capturing the pristine American landscape and has achieved a print quality unprecedented in the history of color photography. He is recognized as a world expert in printing Cibachrome (a color process that evolved from early carbro) and painstakingly applies his unique and sophisticated masking techniques privately developed over the past thirty years to control the photographic paper's legendary contrast. All of his prints are individually hand printed by himself without the use of any computer assistance. Burkett observes quietly that "a pixel will never be a photon" and has privately resolved to avoid digital image making.

Born in 1951 and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Burkett spent his childhood roaming the local forests and fields, observing the natural light and absorbing the bold textures, the vibrant colors and vast subtlety of tones that surrounded him. In 1975, while he was a brother in a Christian Order, he became interested in photography as a means of expressing the grace, light and beauty he saw present in the world of nature. In the years that followed he gradually perfected his craft and in 1979 he left the Order to devote himself to sharing the light the could see in the world with others. To him, "Photography is ultimately an expression of what we see and experience".

Burkett strives to share with his ever-growing audience the paradise he glimpses, eternalizing one brief and spectacular moment. He and his wife, Ruth, travel extensively throughout the United States to photograph. His masterful hand printing and numerous exhibitions have brought him widespread international acclaim and his photographs are featured in many public and private fine art collections, inspiring and reaffirming to many, the divinity inherent in the natural world.

Aspens and Golden Light, Colorado

 

                                                         Graceful Ramalina, Oregon

Carol Henry

Inspired after viewing the floral paintings of Georgia O’Keefe, Carol Henry worked well over a decade to develop a unique photographic technique that would allow her to explore the internal spirit and essence of flowers. As a child, she says her fascination with organic design was mesmerizing. It was this passion that fueled her continued exploration while pursuing studies towards her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Confined in the college darkroom one afternoon, due to a howling blizzard, she discovered a way to reproduce the warmth and beauty of her subject by projecting light through the cells of the flower directly onto archival Cibachrome paper. What appeared was complete purity, without distortion or grain; just the simple radiant delicacy of the flower itself. Without using either camera or film Henry had developed a truly extraordinary technique that would shape the rest of her career.

Because no negative is involved in her photographic process and the flowers can withstand only a single exposure, each 20x24 image is one-of-a-kind. All those who own a Carol Henry print appreciate that they retain the only image of a plant that once grew and flowers that blossomed.
"Working with a photographic process of her very own, Carol Henry transforms the ephemeral splendor of live flowers into the permanent beauty of her photographic compositions. In the great tradition of silver mirror daguerreotypes, each of Carol's photographs is a unique visual, printed using the most luminous and stable color material of the Pre-Digital Photography Era."

Platinum Tulip, 2011