Re: Grammatical Humbugs Along With an Alt-Photo Question
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Cooper" <nwlorax@comcast.net> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:18 PM Subject: Grammatical Humbugs Along With an Alt-Photo Question The notion of a proper grammar for the English language can largely be traced to Bishop Lowth. Lowth based his grammar on that of Latin, despite the fact that the two languages do not have isomorphic grammatical features.I don't know specifically how to reproduce this look but keep in mind that it used two colors chosen to reproduce caucasion skin well. Also, in the original prints (I got to see some) the color saturation is kept fairly low while the overall picture contrast is normal. The photography was very carefully done to avoid colors which could not be reproduced. I rather think you must begin with originals that use the right kind of analysis filters. Technicolor had several versions of their two-color process. One early version used dyed prints which were cemented together. This didn't stand up to projection and was replaced by other methods. The history of Technicolor is pretty well documented and much of it is available on the web. "House of Wax" is really quite striking looking despite the limitations of the system. There were a number of two color processes in use during the 1920's and later. I remember seeing magazines with two color halftone reproductions. None of these really worked very well because of the limited gamut. --- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA dickburk@ix.netcom.com
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