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Steve Minniear's avatar

This was fun, and informative. Thanks.

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Mark Jensen's avatar

I’ve been doing trichromes for several years now. Yours always seem better than mine; your filters are probably better and your photography skills certainly are. I use photoshop elements and a somewhat different process which might affect the results.

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Asari Beale's avatar

These are really great! The process gives such beautiful depth to the flowers photos.

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afton koontz's avatar

What you don’t know until you read what you don’t know. Thank you for the excellent article.

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Ronald Turnbull's avatar

Love it. JCM did get a colour picture himself, of a tartan ribbon. His 'filters' were coloured chemical solutions mounted between sheets of glass. Same filters used again in front of three projectors, each projecting through one of the three B&W negatives, all onto a single combined screen. I saw the experiment reproduced by the Royal Society of Edinburgh at their Maxwell Centennial celebrations.

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Jasper Fforde's avatar

Better still, he postulated how tric-colour images could be done before the means to do so had been worked out!

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Ronald Turnbull's avatar

Maxwell a bit of a hero of mine (and of Einstein for that matter). Used spinning discs of coloured cardboard to work out that primary colours for the human eye are RGB rather than RYB. In spare more ments between much greater discoveries.

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Paula & Martin's avatar

Love the Quality Street filters, especially as you’re obliged to eat the chocolates in the name of colour photography 😇

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Paula & Martin's avatar

According to the Wikipedia page on Rhayader it states: ‘Jasper Fforde’s novels “Red Side Story” and “Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron” are located in a dystopian version of Rhayader called East Carmine.’ 😳

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Charlotte Henley Babb's avatar

Thanks for tutorial. Excellent pictures.

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Marc Philibert's avatar

Very interesting technically and superbly creative stuff, I really like the slightly displaced rose!

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