Color Checker
So it is rare that I have posted twice in the same week, let alone twice in the same day.. but this was fascinating to me, cause even as a photographer I had never seen this before. It is a long story but stay with me.
Cruising my blog sites (gossip, art, sewing) I saw pics from the new cover of Essence. Love the actresses, and would be honored if Sanaa, Nia or Gaberille played me in a bio pick.
But what fascninated me more was the set shot of them posing with the color picker. I know I am not a studio shooter but this is great. While I have worked with gray cards and color checkers I have never seen one like this...
Have you… and can you tell where and who was so smart to make a color checker that finally made sure that black skin looks elegant.
I think that Sean will be the one to respond to an answer.
MBG
Well, sorry for the delayed response, it has been busy here in San Diego as we just released our new product.
I hadn’t seen one like this, but the idea is there. It’s the same idea as in order to get a better skin tone on a print why not use ink that should be formulated to look like skin tone? So tack on another ink or replace one with a light skin tone colorant and a dark skin tone colorant, that way you have a solid base to work off of instead of trying to create a color from lots of other colors. The other inks could be used as the variations to create different tints, shades and hues of the skin tones so Myra and these models could have a great skin tone rendition.
Now on a side note, I have been using the words skin tone which is technically incorrect and I should been writing skin color/hue since we are talking about a 64 billion color world (if not more) and not just black and white (where tones would be most applicable).
Hope Chicago is well and that the new environment is productive and educational.