Sometmes natural dyes can prove to be very difficult to photograph. Once or twice I have run into real problems getting the colour of the dye into the camera. A Logwood dark blue will never come out the colour I see it as. Today I have dyed some wonderful lime greens and purples with Logwood and Persian berries but no matter how I photograph it it comes out grey with flashes of purple.. Oddly enough the Persian berries greens look grey in artifical light too See for yourself-and you will have to take my word for it that this does not do justice to the colours at all what you see as grey on the screen is a lovely green.
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ReplyDeleteHow about colour-photocoying them? I have done this with fabrics and the colour is great!
ReplyDeleteNever thought of that!thanks for the idea!
ReplyDeleteI have similar problems with the results of fresh rhamnus berries, you can either see the purple tones or the green ones, but not both together the way they are on the fibres:(( I once did it by accident - when it was very grey outside and I had the flash on accidentally! very hard to get the same conditions on purpose....
ReplyDeletei have mostly good result with a scanner, not always.
ReplyDeleteif i plan to take photographs, i take the photos when the wool is still slightly wet.
mieke, belgium
Hi Mieke I have never tried that . I have now spun some yarn from the dyed fibres and photographed them by flash and that seems to be better.
ReplyDeleteHi Mieke I have never tried that . I have now spun some yarn from the dyed fibres and photographed them by flash and that seems to be better.
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