[argyllcms] Re: Best way to proceed?
- From: Ben Goren <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:12:42 -0700
On 2008 Jun 1, at 8:27 PM, Graeme Gill wrote:
Ben Goren wrote:
But I fear this is ignoring the elephant in the room -- that is,
wood's dramatically varying color with changing light angles. It's
what makes wood do beautiful...but it also would seem to make it
impossible to (accurately) photograph.
I wouldn't say it's about accuracy - with some effort you can
accurately
record the image the camera captures in a color sense. What the
camera doesn't
capture is the same experience a human observer has when moving
around and
viewing such objects, since it's only recording the light from a
single
direction. A better reconstruction would require capturing more of
the light
field, something that at the moment takes rather specialized
equipment and
processing, and is hard to reproduce.
That's it! Of course -- why didn't I think of that earlier?
Stereograms!
Do a cross- or wall-eyed viewing of the left and right versions in the
earlier note, and the effect is *extremely* convincing. All I have to
do is add a bit of lateral camera shift for perspective, and I'm there!
Here they are again, merged, so y'all don't have to dig 'em out:
Of course, I won't be able to do that for all, or even many, of the
works. But even for just one or two, and I think it'll be spectacular.
Thank you!
Of course, that still leaves me with the color correction problems,
but I think I've got a handle on that, now -- more in other posts.
I would assume that one of the things photographers get paid for, is
to
figure out how to best to capture such difficult subject, working
within
the limitations of what a camera can actually do. I'd also guess
that the
arrangement of the lighting would play a big part in this.
Fortunately, this isn't a paid gig. The client is Dad....
And, as I'm sure is obvious, this is my first attempt at this sort of
thing, at least on this scale and level. It's quite the learning
experience
Thank you!
Cheers,
b&
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