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Separation negatives

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Separation negatives
A black & white negatives, usually prepared in lots of three or four, which have been taken through filters which analyze the colour composition of an original in terms of blue, green and red.

 


Other systems of color photography included that used by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, which involved three separate monochrome exposures ('separation negatives') of a still scene through red, green, and blue filters.

There were articles on topics like how to do color separation negatives, and when we look at the "good" and "bad" examples today, all we notice is "heck, one might be a better reproduction, but who cares, ...

Plate: An Offset Printing plate is a metal plate photo-etched from the halftone separation negatives.
Post-Production: A term taken from the motion picture industry which refers to all of the editing that takes place after the actual shooting of film.

A proof created from color separation negatives that uses sheets of acetate overlaid on each other to create the color image. Each film layer represents one color.
palette: ...

-One shot color camera is an obsolete plate camera making three color separation negatives from a single exposure.
-One shot developer is a developer that is used on a single occasion and then discarded.

integral proof
color proof of separation negatives exposed in register on one piece of proofing paper.

You can use it as a guide when adjusting your camera's white balance, hue, and saturation, and if you send the photo to a printer for inclusion in a catalog it helps them create separation negatives need to print the images.

See also: Negative, Print, Printing, Blue, Light

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