-=> Bob Dial said to Karen Wattie on 03-23-98  11:43:
 BD> Hi, Karen! (We gotta stop meetin' like this!)
KW> Why?  :)
 Jealous husbands, and all thet jazz?  Hehheheheh
BD> I spent a decade doing news photography, too..  
KW> That was never actually my job, but I've had a chance to do
KW> it several times over the years. I really liked it and that
KW> would be one job that would coax me back into the work force.
 I felt much that way once but now when I wake up after dreaming
 some situation had forced me back into news work, I give a huge
 sigh of relief!!  Just another nightmare!  For me, this is one
 of the situations that really fits the old saw: "I wouldn't take
 a million for the experience, and I wouldn't do it again for two
 million.  
BD> As you know, filters pass light of their own color and retard
 BD> the rest.  The effect achieved is to darken or lighten.. hues
KW> Yes, of course.  But the only experience I've had with [it was]
KW> the New York Institute had us shoot the same thing with different
KW> colored jells.  I'd forgotten.
 You might wish to memorize the color relationships, then, if you
 have not already done so.   Then if a need arises you would know
 what filter color to use in order to get a desired separation if
 you were confronted with adjoining, similar intensity, colors in
 making a B&W copy.  While it is basic to color, the practical
 value in B&W applications is equally appropriate.  I made up my
 own, years ago, when my burning avocation was a love of sports
 cars.  It went this way: General Motors Builds Yucky Race Cars.
 The essensce is the first letters standing for primary colors and
 paired with their counterparts, as Green/Magenta, Blue/Yellow and
 Red/Cyan.  Think of them as opposites.  If you want red to be a
 lighter shade of grey, use a light red filter and everything red
 in the scene will be more dense on the pan negative, thus lighter
 in a print..  If red needs to be darker then a cyan filter would
 do the job because it makes red areas weaker in the negative, etc.
 Everyone recognizes the primaries, RGB, but some may not be very
 comfortable with the secondaries.  In case you forgot, each one is
 comprised of approximately equal quantities of two primary colors;
 Magenta is half red, half blue, Yellow is red and green (though it
 never seemed possible in my head!), and; cyan is a mixture of blue
 and green.  Photographic color processes are all based upon that
 premise, in one way or another.
... Washington, D.C., America's work-free drug capitol!
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