SlideShare a Scribd company logo

Color Photography

•
•
Shawn Calvert
Shawn Calvert

The document summarizes the history of color photography, beginning with the first permanent color photograph taken in 1861 using three black and white photos with red, green, and blue filters. It discusses early pioneers in color photography techniques in the late 1800s. The document also notes the first 3D color stereoscopic photos taken after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the first commercially successful color photography process introduced in 1907. The rest of the document focuses on color models and terms used in digital design, including RGB, CMYK, hue, saturation, temperature, and value.

1 of 48
Download to read offline
22-3530 - 01 PHOTO COMMUNICATIONS color
Color Photography
Color Photography
Color Photography
The first permanent color photograph was taking in 1861 by physicist James Clerk Maxwell who used what is known as the 'color separation' method, shooting three separate black and white photos using three filters: red, green, and blue. He then projected the three images registered with their corresponding filters overlapping them to create a color image. The photo below is the famous tartan ribbon photo, the first permanent color photograph.
View of Agen, France, showing the St. Caprais cathedral, by Louis Ducos du Hauron, 1877. Heliochrome(multilayer dichromated pigmented gelatin process).
Color Photography
Louis Ducos du Hauron, Still life with rooster 1869-1879 (ca), Color print, dye imbibition process
Stuffed Birds, 1895 (ca) Joly Color, George Eastman House
Color Photography
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History recently discovered these images, the first 3-D, color stereoscopic photographs of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. Photographer Frederick Eugene Ives took the color images, known as kromograms, six months after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the city on April 18, 1906.
Color Photography
In Lyons, France, Auguste and Louis Lumière, the inventors of the first practical motion picture projector, patented a major breakthrough in the making of color photographs in 1904. The Autochrome Lumière was the first commercially viable and extensively used color photographic process. Introduced to the market in 1907, it remained in production until 1935.
King Frederic VIII and Queen Louise of Denmark, Paris [the first news pictures in color] 1907, 17 June
Color Photography
Color Photography
Color Photography
Color Photography
Color Photography
Color Photography
Color Photography
In Adobe programs, there are two color models you need to know: RGB & CMYK RED BLUE GREEN (K=black)
In Adobe programs, there are two color models you need to know: RGB & CMYK RED MAGENTA YELLOW BLUE GREEN CYAN (K=black)
RGB is light. CMYK is ink.
RGB is light. CMYK is ink. RGB is called additive because all of the colors together at 100% would create white.
RGB is light. CMYK is ink. RGB is called additive because all of the colors together at 100% would create white. CMYK is called subtractive because the absence of all ink would leave white.
Taken together, RGB and CMY form a relationship of primaries and secondary colors that can be mixed to create all of the colors in between.
All six primary colors are made up of one complement and two components. A 100% fully saturated green also contains no magenta. At all. Magenta also contains no green. They are each other’s complements.
All six primary colors are made up of one complement and two components. A 100% fully saturated green is composed of equal amount of yellow and cyan only. Yellow and cyan are green’s components. A 100% fully saturated green also contains no magenta. At all. Magenta also contains no green. They are each other’s complements.
Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 1. HUE 2. SATURATION 3. TEMPERATURE 4. VALUE
Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 1. HUE Where the color sits in the visible wavelength: “red”, “blue”
Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 2. SATURATION The intensity of a color: “ re engine red”, “pastel red”
As a graphic designer, you need to be comfortable with with working with RGB (256 values) and CMYK (ink percentages). How would you increase the saturation of the green sweater? What is the “formula” for the sweater?
In a fully desaturated image, the RGB values will be equal. In the example to the left, the pixel that is being measured has a value of 33 in all three channels, indicating that it is fully desaturated/neutral.
Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 2. SATURATION The intensity of a color: “ re engine red”, “pastel red”
Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 3. TEMPERATURE The color’s perceived warmth or coolness
Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 4. VALUE (or BRIGHTNESS) The tonal value of a color, how light or dark the color is
Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 4. VALUE (or BRIGHTNESS) The tonal value of a color, how light or dark the color is
Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 4. VALUE (or BRIGHTNESS) The tonal value of a color, how light or dark the color is
COLOR EXERCISES
CORRECT WITH: auto color
CORRECT WITH: color balance
CORRECT WITH: levels
CORRECT WITH: channels
CORRECT WITH: curves
CORRECT WITH: hue saturation
CORRECT WITH: match color
Color Photography

More Related Content

Color Photography

  • 1. 22-3530 - 01 PHOTO COMMUNICATIONS color
  • 5. The first permanent color photograph was taking in 1861 by physicist James Clerk Maxwell who used what is known as the 'color separation' method, shooting three separate black and white photos using three filters: red, green, and blue. He then projected the three images registered with their corresponding filters overlapping them to create a color image. The photo below is the famous tartan ribbon photo, the first permanent color photograph.
  • 6. View of Agen, France, showing the St. Caprais cathedral, by Louis Ducos du Hauron, 1877. Heliochrome(multilayer dichromated pigmented gelatin process).
  • 8. Louis Ducos du Hauron, Still life with rooster 1869-1879 (ca), Color print, dye imbibition process
  • 9. Stuffed Birds, 1895 (ca) Joly Color, George Eastman House
  • 11. The Smithsonian National Museum of American History recently discovered these images, the first 3-D, color stereoscopic photographs of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. Photographer Frederick Eugene Ives took the color images, known as kromograms, six months after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the city on April 18, 1906.
  • 13. In Lyons, France, Auguste and Louis Lumière, the inventors of the first practical motion picture projector, patented a major breakthrough in the making of color photographs in 1904. The Autochrome Lumière was the first commercially viable and extensively used color photographic process. Introduced to the market in 1907, it remained in production until 1935.
  • 14. King Frederic VIII and Queen Louise of Denmark, Paris [the first news pictures in color] 1907, 17 June
  • 22. In Adobe programs, there are two color models you need to know: RGB & CMYK RED BLUE GREEN (K=black)
  • 23. In Adobe programs, there are two color models you need to know: RGB & CMYK RED MAGENTA YELLOW BLUE GREEN CYAN (K=black)
  • 24. RGB is light. CMYK is ink.
  • 25. RGB is light. CMYK is ink. RGB is called additive because all of the colors together at 100% would create white.
  • 26. RGB is light. CMYK is ink. RGB is called additive because all of the colors together at 100% would create white. CMYK is called subtractive because the absence of all ink would leave white.
  • 27. Taken together, RGB and CMY form a relationship of primaries and secondary colors that can be mixed to create all of the colors in between.
  • 28. All six primary colors are made up of one complement and two components. A 100% fully saturated green also contains no magenta. At all. Magenta also contains no green. They are each other’s complements.
  • 29. All six primary colors are made up of one complement and two components. A 100% fully saturated green is composed of equal amount of yellow and cyan only. Yellow and cyan are green’s components. A 100% fully saturated green also contains no magenta. At all. Magenta also contains no green. They are each other’s complements.
  • 30. Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 1. HUE 2. SATURATION 3. TEMPERATURE 4. VALUE
  • 31. Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 1. HUE Where the color sits in the visible wavelength: “red”, “blue”
  • 32. Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 2. SATURATION The intensity of a color: “ re engine red”, “pastel red”
  • 33. As a graphic designer, you need to be comfortable with with working with RGB (256 values) and CMYK (ink percentages). How would you increase the saturation of the green sweater? What is the “formula” for the sweater?
  • 34. In a fully desaturated image, the RGB values will be equal. In the example to the left, the pixel that is being measured has a value of 33 in all three channels, indicating that it is fully desaturated/neutral.
  • 35. Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 2. SATURATION The intensity of a color: “ re engine red”, “pastel red”
  • 36. Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 3. TEMPERATURE The color’s perceived warmth or coolness
  • 37. Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 4. VALUE (or BRIGHTNESS) The tonal value of a color, how light or dark the color is
  • 38. Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 4. VALUE (or BRIGHTNESS) The tonal value of a color, how light or dark the color is
  • 39. Every color can be de ned by four essential qualities: 4. VALUE (or BRIGHTNESS) The tonal value of a color, how light or dark the color is
  • 46. CORRECT WITH: hue saturation