@mattyc, @phil . rgb filters, remote ghetto flash in between me and a transparency I printed a pattern on. I'm ready to be printed in the newspaper now.
this photo is in honor of the fathers of color photography, guys like Ducos du Hauron and Prokudin-Gorsky who were before their time, and James Clerk Maxwell who was even way before them!
As always, your wizardry is only surpassed by the fact that you have such wizardry and are not afraid to use it on children and small mammals and orangutans and various cereals and European cars.
ahh.... I was about 80% right. I was thining the transpanency was colored too ala 3-d glasses and all 3 created the full RGB channel. but now that I think about it that's overly complicated and wouldn't work.
this is beyond words. i hate not being able to say how much I love an image for its brilliance and creativity but this one is just beyond my vocab. i'm stunned.
After I studied it a bit I think I finally figured how you did it and it is AMAZING cool idea! Dang, this is as close to magic as you can get in photography.
I used one transparency, printed black with clear holes with a strip of white you see at one end. When you trip the flash with a blue filter over the lens (or flash), the white areas become essentially blue to the camera sensor and dark areas are the absence of blue, or in a full color image where red light and green light hit that spot, it is yellow. Likewise, you notice the green part shows it's opposite, magenta, on the screening pattern, instead of black and bright green on the white strip. So essentially it's as if you printed out a set of CMYK separations, except you are using visible light and RGB filters to approach it from quite the opposite direction.
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