Lately I've become more and more interested in color photography. Especially in the era when the world had nothing to do with digital. My references were the works of Saul Leiter, William Eggleston and unpublished works of Elliott Erwitt in a book titled Kolor. And not to forget, Steve McCurry. They mostly used Kodachrome film slide. I think every photographer would be agreed that it was the best film roll that can produce beautiful chromatic color on every single photograph.
Since I have no guts to shoot on film (blame my eyes for this; I can't trust them for manual focusing), I can only wonder, is there any chances to produce a gorgeous chromatic color in a digital era like today. So I think I have to choose the right recording media, optics and develop my knowledge about digital imaging, about the basics of RGB, CMYK, or anything. I keep trying to figure it out.
Until some day, I got an offer to travel to Seribu Islands on the last May. And so I took the offer like a film camera flash — direct, no bounced. Then I had a plan in mind, I will simply expose anything colorful. I don't really care about the story or the meaning of the photographs would be. I will only shoot the chromatic scenes. That's was my plan.
First of all, I want to share something about chromatic color. It's gonna be a little bit technical, and if you think it is wrong to talk about stuff like this while traveling, I'm totally agree. But, to be honest, this is what I've been thinking about recently. Have apology on me. Let me do this at least for once in a lifetime. So here we go;
Chro·mat·ic; /krōˈmadik/, or chrome; /krōm/, originally taken from Greek khrōma that equals withcolor. This word frequently used in early 19th century.
According to PrintWiki, chromatic color is:
"Any color in which one particular wavelength or hue predominates. For example, blue and green are chromatic colors, while white, gray, and black is achromatic colors, as they have no dominant hue (all wavelengths are present in equal amounts within those colors).
White light is considered achromatic, as it possesses no dominant hue. It is only when one particular wavelength (for example, red) is filtered out that the light becomes chromatic, possessing the color which is the opposite of the light that was filtered.Thus, if red light is filtered out, the opposite of red; cyan, will dominate.
Objects and surfaces have the same effect on light, and in fact it is because they act essentially like filters that things have any color at all. An object, such as an apple, appears red because the atoms and molecules that comprise it absorb blue-green light, reflecting back the opposite color; red."
In a simple way, UIC, A Glossary Of Color Science define chromatic color as:
"A hue; All colors other than the neutral colors white, black, and the pure greys, are chromatic. The word color in ordinary language is often used to refer exclusively to chromatic colors, e.g., color vs. black-and-white-television."
After the trip, I developed all of images that I've got. So far, I'm happy with the result. And about the chromatic film slide color style, I guess I would never get the same taste in digital. We could never really go back in the past. But at least, I found a new way to present a chromatic color at these days. In digital of course.
That's all I wish to say. Next time I promise, I will more enjoy everything happen in front of my eyes while I'm on a vacation. Finally, I want to know how do you enjoy the color of the images displayed above. Share your thoughts in the comment below.
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