{"id":741,"date":"2016-09-10T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/?p=741"},"modified":"2016-11-13T23:37:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T23:37:04","slug":"chromogenic-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/2016\/chromogenic-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Chromogenic absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a title=\"Grand Central Station\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jamesdavies\/29728946522\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8020\/29728946522_eac9bcd803_b.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Central Station\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center>NYC 20th May 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Olympus OM10 and Kodak BW400CN film.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never felt the chromogenic films really get low-light dark tones as well as they might. There is a speckled effect here which isn&#8217;t even the legendary &#8220;grain&#8221; &#8211; it just feels like something struggling.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve also not done these fully analogue for years (I always get dev and scans and just work with the digital files), and I suspect a silver print done shortly after developing would be much richer. Back in art school I expect this would have been one of those prints where the technicians and tutors would keep finding things I could improve on and it would be back into the darkroom to try again.<\/p>\n<p>But, one has to ask, what does &#8220;richer&#8221; mean in an image anyway? Richer is an expression of wealth, or something like an intense tastebud experience. I guess it might mean&#8230; &#8220;more convincingly dark&#8221;; darkness in a digital image is where things start to head towards zeroes and the realm of less information. Those speckles look like something has just given up and said &#8220;I have nothing to work with here&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But darkness is only the absence of light, not information, so it&#8217;s a tough one to rationalise, especially since with any image, even charcoal on paper, we need light in order to see darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC 20th May 2016. Olympus OM10 and Kodak BW400CN film. I&#8217;ve never felt the chromogenic films really get low-light dark tones as well as they might. There is a speckled effect here which isn&#8217;t even the legendary &#8220;grain&#8221; &#8211; it just feels like something struggling. But I&#8217;ve also not done these fully analogue for years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}