Joanna in High Key

[RBSinTo]

Another forgotten picture re-discovered while searching out images for another photo essay.
This photo of our daughter was shot in 1986 after I read an article on high key portraits in a magazine (Pop Photo?/ Modern Photography?/ Petersen's Photographic?) and decided to try my hand. Set up in our living room with two flashes, a bunch of reflectors and a projector screen as the background, I was quite pleased with the result.
motorized Nikon FE-2
Nikkor 105 2.5 AI manual focus
Kodachrome 64
probably f4 @ 1/250th

[Mike Buckley]

Nice detail in both the bright and dark tones.

[Shadowman]

Nicely posed and composed.

[RBSinTo]

Mike, John,
Thanks for the comments.
Robert

[rpcrowe]

Nice shot of strikingly attractive young lady. However, It is not (IMO) quite high key except for the white background...

[RBSinTo]

Nice shot of strikingly attractive young lady. However, It is not (IMO) quite high key except for the white background...

Richard,
That has been said at another site as well.
However it's close enough for me.
Thanks for commenting.
Robert

[IzzieK]

Robert, it is a nice shot but is it my monitor or her hair is green?

[RBSinTo]

Robert, it is a nice shot but is it my monitor or her hair is green?

Izzie,
Green hair? No.
Robert

[Round Tuit]

Izzie,
Green hair? No.
Robert

I'm afraid I agree with Izzie.
The lower part of her face and the right side of her face(camera left) also show a dark green discoloration. Looks to me like emulsion damaged by time/light.
Nice shot anyway but I would try to fix it if it were mine.

André

[Mike Buckley]

Rob,

Check out the RGB values of the bright tones in the hair and the shadows of the hair on your daughter's blouse. Everywhere I do that using my calibrated monitor, the Green channel is the dominant channel.

[xpatUSA]

Rob,

Check out the RGB values of the bright tones in the hair and the shadows of the hair on your daughter's blouse. Everywhere I do that using my calibrated monitor, the Green channel is the dominant channel.

The GIMP agrees. There is lot of hue posterization too.



In the words of Crocodile Dundee in New York "Green, mate? Call that green?!! . . Now this is green!"



The above is the 'Hue' plane extracted and colorized in the GIMP.

[William W]

. . . The lower part of her face and the right side of her face(camera left) also show a dark green discoloration. Looks to me like emulsion damaged by time/light.

Unlikely, even if the Slide has been 'projected' multiple times; typically Kodachrome would need to be used 'professionally' as a projected image, to even being to cause any dye deterioration.

Kodachrome dyes have an incredible Archival Life: arguably "the best". (Although Kodachrome is not rated the best for short to medium term sustained repetitive projection.)

It is much more likely that the Green Cast is 100% digital.

Nice shot anyway but I would try to fix it if it were mine.

I agree. It is easy to fix.

WW

[Manfred M]

Nice image Robert.

+1 to what Bill has written. Kodachrome transparency film is extremely stable, and fact far more so than any other products. It often tended to accentuate the reds.

Scanning / digitizing can introduce a colour cast and the digitization process can add a bit of softness to the image. When I look at this shot, I see a bit of a cyan and green colour cast, so increasing the magenta and reds counteracts that issue. The whites of her eyes should not be that colour.

Add a tiny bit of sharpening to take care of the digitization softness, I get this. Not 100%, but a step in the right direction.

[RBSinTo]

Oooops.
You guys were right and I was wrong. Sorry.
I did what Manfred suggested and the result is better.
Thanks to all.
robert

[IzzieK]

I thought I will have to calibrate my monitor again...thank you all. I wasn't crazy after all..

[RBSinTo]

I thought I will have to calibrate my monitor again...thank you all. I wasn't crazy after all..

Well, not totally anyway.