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Color Photography The Transition by Seth Willis

Color is the essence to many things from photographs to a blooming flower to a deep blue ocean. The ability to take color photo prints has changed the world of photography in more ways than one but then it never used to be so colorful back in the early 19th century.

In the initial days, film rolls and photography were in black & white format, but the search for Color Film rolls continued throughout the 19th century. There were experiments conducted but the colors in the photographs could not be retained and they faded away fast. According to history, the first color photo was taken by James Clerk Maxwell, a physicist in 1861. One of the earliest methods of producing a color photograph was painstaking and a total of 3 cameras had to be used.

Prokudin-Gorskii, in 1915, was the first one to use this process to take color photographs. He used a color filter and placed it in front of the lens for each of the three cameras. This way he was able to get three basic channels also famous as the RGB or Red, Green, and Blue. Prokudin-Gorskii followed this by another technique in which he utilized three-color plates, and used them in succession.

As more experiments continued, H. W. Vogel was able to produce emulsions in the early 20th century that could generate the required sensitivity to red and green light. Later on, the Lumire brothers invented the very first color film called Autochrome. The Autochrome was launched in the market in 1907. This process involved the use of a screen plate filter, which dyed dots made from potato starch.

The Autochrome was the only available color film until Agfa, the German company, introduced a color film in 1932 called the Agfacolor. Following its example, Kodak introduced an integrated tri-pack color film in 1935 and it was called the Kodachrome. Kodachrome was based on three color emulsions.

Following Kodachrome, Agfa in 1936, came out with Agfacolor Neue. Agfacolor Neue had color couplers that were integrated with emulsion layers and this simplified film processing and created an impact in the photography industry. All color films except for Kodak, are based on the Agfacolor Neue technology.

Creativity begets creativity!

It can be proved from the fact that the Kodachrome color films were invented by Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky, Jr., two very accomplished musicians. Leopold Godowsky, Jr. was the son of one of the greatest pianists of his time, Leopold Godowsky.

Color photography actually revolutionized an era and brought out the impact of colors through vivid and detailed images including the ones from the World War II and the destruction caused by natural disasters.

The color photographs captured emotions and the surroundings in such a way that they were being used more and more in newspapers, magazines and even for book covers.

Seth Willis is the webmaster for http://www.Starephotography.com he enjoys photography as well as painting and blues and Jazz guitar.Stare photography is an Online school for budding and seasoned photographers to enhance their skills or start a new career.

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A Few Questions About Developing My Pictures?

I bought a Canon EOS Rebel G a few days ago, and got some Kodak color film for it, took the 24 pictures it had on it, and today I got them developed at a one hour station at Fortinos (Grocery store). However, only about half of the pictures were on the cd (I didn't get prints). I took the last 5 pictures with my girlfriend (Who I only see once a week usually) and none of them were on the cd. Obviously I was pretty upset about that.. Also, all of the pictures came out upside down.

So my questions are, why didn't all of the pictures come out? How can I prevent that from happening again? And why did they come out upside down?

If you do a root cause analysis, you will find that you did not use the light meter correctly on the images that were black or overexposed.

Upside down is not usually a big deal, since once you copy them to your computer, your can re-orient them, but the lab needs to know they are burning CD's with the images upside down

Look at your negatives, especially the ones at the end where you shot your gf. They will either be blank (or thin if you underexposed) or very dense if you overexposed them

Perhaps the most important thing is to make sure that you have high resolution image files, something like 6048 x 4032 pixels @ 300 DPI. My guess is that the lab made your images more like 600 x 400 @ 72 DPI. You cannot make good prints from "Internet" ready image files that small.

Analyze your negatives and see what kind of exposures you are getting. They should be easy to read when held up to a lamp or placed on a light table. Too dense, overexposed, to thin, underexposed.

When you take your negatives back to get them put on a disc right side up and at high resolution, have the tech there show you what problems you are having with your exposures.

It could be that the battery in your camera that powers the light meter needs to be replaced

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