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I’m gonna do a “lamp simulation” (a circular gradient with constant tint and varying brightness, based on the abstract model of a “perfect lamp,”) based on 11 colors: 3 times RGB with 3 levels of brightness (I dont enter into the detail of how I choosed them) and Black/White.
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Light ON/OFF, hi-resolution orthographic panorama made with Hugin.
For me, there’s not much difference between such a work (the prototype, made of laserprints on paper) and a “traditionnal painting.”
I’m really starting to think it’s just the same thing, like Richter includes amateur photography in the field of “painting.”
The central part being equalized.
Something is slightly wrong – the values are increasing where the light is intense -, but it’s still very close to what I wanted (an equalized luminance everywhere in the rectangle).
The bad news: the laser printer cannot handle large black prints, some unit of the printer makes a random glossy layer on it.
the random gloss
the (very) good news id that the luminance correction is not very angle-dependant, means that except for that random gloss, the correction works at a wide variety of viewpoints, that’s really nice.
from the left side, the gloss dissappears and the flat is still “flat.”
below: zooms on different parts from the left side (same shutter speed)
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I just came back from a long journey, the blog will be re-updated regularly soon.
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The lightness will change as if there was a perfect lamp at 17 cm from the center of the figure.
The white structure appears really “transparent.”
This geometrical solution could be called the “pixel solution,” since the surface is divided in 2×2 cm squares, other solutions are possible and will be tried later on the study: concentric zones, gradients… The only color added to the grey background is Titanium White (TW), later I’ll try color, enjoy ;)
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Fine-tuning of titanium-White and carbon-Black to “match’ the lightness of the grey background. Bizarre: following my measurements it was supposed to disappear in the middle, maybe a mistake…
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Fine-tuning of titanium-White and carbon-Black to “match’ the lightness of the grey background.
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étude D65 #2, équivalences / dégradés / disparitions, 2012
hand-made drawing: pigments, indian ink & pencil on paper
162 x 110 cm
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One more layer of color and the entire section will appear grey, and the circular zones will disappear.
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The central segment of the figure is too dark, result: instead of becoming invisible the circular zone in the middle appears brighter than its surroundings… As corners do…
Its probably because of the wear affecting the tracing instrument. It might be possible to correct this with white lines, but it will be complicated! See you there soon….
