The Refracted Light

A website about the Art and Science of Photography

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Are there cameras with good skin tones?

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A PHOTOGRAPHER ASKS:  “What do they mean by a camera with a good skin tone? Is it subjective?” Well, a camera doesn’t have skin, but some ...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

An Expensive and a Free Way of Matching Screen and Print

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A PHOTOGRAPHER ASKS:   “When I make a print, it looks duller, grayer, and more bland than what I see on my computer monitor, even when I’m u...
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Monday, May 5, 2014

Color Trek

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“P’tak!” shouted the Klingon, as he drove his dagger into the computer monitor, causing a shower of sparks to shoot across the bridge of th...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Cook Your Own Raw Files, Part 3: Demosaic Your Images

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AS SOON AS I wrote the following lines at the end of the last article in this series, I regretted it; I wasn't sure why, but I had a na...
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Friday, March 21, 2014

Why are blue skies noisy in digital photos?

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A PHOTOGRAPHER ASKS, “Why are blue skies so noisy in photos?” A noisy blue sky in a photo, greatly enlarged. This is a common questio...
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Saturday, March 8, 2014

On the Invention of Photography

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IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, it became fashionable to tour the English countryside, visiting castles, ruined abbeys, and picturesque landscap...

Cook Your Own Raw Files, Part 2: Some Notes on the Sensor and Demosaicing

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ADMITTEDLY, DIGITAL cameras are somewhat difficult to characterize well, because there is so much variety between models, but there are a f...
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