Re: Hand coloring

[betty@xxxxxxxxxx (B. Schlueter)]

 This might be a completely non-technical way of doing this, but
> when I want to hand-color any of my IR pictures I have them color-laser
> photo-copied and enlarged on regular copy paper. I then use oil pastels
> to color in the areas I want to color. It is cheaper than having to
> develop it on regular photo paper and it is also good if you want to just
> practice your techniques on a few pictures before you decide to use it on
> regular photo paper....
Lucien

I hope this doesn't stray too far from infrared, but I have seen this done.
I saw a piece a woman did by taking photos in a picture booth, blowing them
up to about four feet high and then coloring them. It was a neat exhibit. I
like the quality a photo copy machine reduces a photograph to. It's so
contrasty and undefined. And cheap.
Betty


"To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in
the face of fleeting reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image
becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
                                      Henri Cartier-Bresson
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