David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...In 2009 Kodak announced the
discontinuance of Kodachrome
after 74 years.Colour reversal film produces a negative image in the camera but is processed to give a final positive colour image. This material is referred to by many names...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...A comparison of the European and Wratten systemsColour conversion filters let the photographer match the colour temperature of the lighting to the film being used. They are little used with digital cameras. In Europe, the filters...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Mired is a made-up word from micro reciprocal degrees – it is pronounced ‘my-red’. A mired expresses the inverse colour temperature and is one million divided by the colour temperature. The inverse value is used because when, for example...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...A colour cast is an unwanted, overall colour change in an image. The colour shift causing the cast can be identified from a ‘ring-around’, as shown here. Some ring-arounds also show the strength of the cast along a dimension moving out from...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Chromogenic simply means ‘made from colour’. Chromogenic black-and-white film produces black-and-white negatives but is processed in colour film chemistry at any mini-lab (C-41 process). The film is virtually grain-free, with a velvety...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Colour management is the suite of computer software that attempts to match colour from input, through display to output. Colour management systems need a profile of each device (camera, screen, printer, scanner) in order to do this....
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...The warm colours in this image of a restuarant in Rome, Italy (right), were captured using a Leica M6TTL with a 35mm Summilux f/1.4 lens on Kodak Elite Chrome EB100 (5045) film, ISO 100.Warm colours are those in the red-to-yellow segment...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...In high-quality books, black-and-white photographs are often printed as duotones. As the name suggests, this involves two inks: one ink, usually black, carries the darker tones in the image. A second ink, usually a warm or cool grey...
...Light is the essence of photography and learning how to use it is the key to mastering the photographic art.It would be easy to get technical about light; after all light is a subject of science. However, that isn't the aim of this book...
David Präkel has enjoyed a successful and diverse career in journalism, photography and education. He has taught photography at all levels in the UK and America, at the prestigious Kodak Imaging Training Centre and in his own training workshops in Northumberland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Cool colours are those in the blue and blue-green segments of the colour wheel. This is based purely on a psychological association and has nothing to do with the colour temperature scale. Cold tone photographic paper has a distinct...
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