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Tanya
Sep 16, 2010
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Week two (2/15) of my first semester of PH 108: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY with John Trefethen

This week was a boring assignment covering information that I already know. Here are the instructions

Set the resolution (pixel dimension, image size) to the smallest possible setting that your camera allows. This will vary depending on your particular camera.
Take a photograph of the front page of a newspaper. Zoom in and frame your shot so that it is of just the folded top half of the newspaper. The object here is to see how fine details like text are rendered using your camera's smallest pixel resolution setting.
After you have taken a shot at the lowest resolution your camera offers, set the pixel resolution to the highest setting (the largest image dimension) and take the same shot.

Here it is..... yay rha!

The discussion of this class also deals with the resolution of image making so for the record, I shoot on the highest resolution for many reasons; mostly because I need the highest quality.

ICC Profiles (International Color Consortium) provide rules for color management. The simplest way to describe ICC is that it is a program that tells one electronic device how to “see” the color of another device. For example, when an image is captured by our camera and then loaded to your computer the ICC is the interpreter for the color files of all the devices (i.e. camera, cpu, monitor and printer).

The ICC would be important to a photographer because it is vital to understand that the color in which an image is captured may not translate to all other devices the same way. If the color of the photograph does not get communicated properly it could be the difference between having a powerful statement of color or a mediocre statement.

I think that knowing and understanding this term will benefit my photography by providing me with the understanding that not all things are created equal. I can now better understand why an image looks one way on my home computer and different when I pick up prints from the printer. It may not be the labs fault but instead that something got lost in translation between the devices involved.

Image 1 is an example of ICC

Image 2 is an example of an ICC profile

Sources: www.color.org

www.nikondigital.org/articles/library/color_managment

www.wikipedia.org