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Imitation Red Scale
Started July 11, 2012 @ 2:09pm by Flo
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Flo
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| Imitation Red Scale | July 11, 2012 @ 2:09pm | Red Scale (I think is the right term) is using print negative film, loaded so the emulsion side is toward the back, so the light passes through that orange coating. It makes for interesting special effects coloring with only the usual developing. I was intrigued, so I took an image to PS CS3 and started playing.
I started by making a copy of the original. Then I used a red hue/sat layer on one of them and a yellow hue/sat layer on the other. Then I started dragging the yellow over the red and playing with various blend modes and filters.
I think you can sort of figure out from the file names what I did to get each result:
http://sav.tonebytone.com/CAMERA-SR/Grounds4Sculpture/2/diddles/1.php
Try it, it's fun, lol!
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Bill
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| July 11, 2012 @ 8:09pm | Interesting experiment. Never heard of this technique so looked it up in Wikipedia. Number 6 holds the most appeal for me and it also looks to be the most similar to the original process when compared to the examples in the Wikipedia article.
Glad you had fun with it. Found this site that uses curves layers and a colour cast layer to mimic red scale. Think I'll give it a try to see what I can come up with. Thanks for the idea.
BILL B. PPY
http://blabirch.blogspot.com/
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Flo
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| July 12, 2012 @ 8:54am | Thanks for taking the time to look and comment, Bill. As far as getting close to the Red Scale film technique, I think that my #5 hit it best. #6 is the yellow layer only, but most Red Scale images that I've seen have a combination of both red and yellow.
Many thanks for finding that Epic Edits article, too. I did think about doing it in a way similar to what he uses, but decided to be simple and use just the hue/sat layer.
What one needs to do is get rid of the greens, cyans and blues and emphasize the reds and yellows.
When I read one article about how color negative film layers are placed on the backing, I had no idea that the blue layer had to be on top - or closest to the incoming light source! So this is why, when the film is inserted backwards with the orange coating facing the lens, the blue then is the last to receive the light and doesn't really get any light, or is overwhelmed by the orange layer and then the green and yellow layers, which together make yellow.
Digital sensors don't have this problem.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Bill
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| My attempt at red scale | July 12, 2012 @ 12:52pm | Here's what I came up with, or at least one version. Not sure how close it is to results with the original film method but it's the version that I found the most pleasing to my eye. And it really was fun. Worth exploring further for sure. I started with the method I mentioned earlier in this thread (using curves) and then sort of made it up as I went along. After I was done, I found that virtually all of the blues/cyans had been remove as well as most of the greens.
BILL B. PPY
http://blabirch.blogspot.com/
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Flo
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| July 12, 2012 @ 11:11pm | Bill, thanks for trying out this method and posting your result. I like it. You know, this intensity of the warm colors certainly speaks of heat, heat, heat - like close to 100 degrees F - or even more!
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
http://photos.tonebytone.com |
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Bill
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| July 13, 2012 @ 11:50am |
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You know, this intensity of the warm colors certainly speaks of heat, heat, heat - like close to 100 degrees F - or even more! |
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Couldn't agree more. This is an old picture but I do remember that it was a very hot day so it fits this technique nicely.
BILL B. PPY
http://blabirch.blogspot.com/
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