{"id":12449,"date":"2007-08-15T17:29:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T17:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/08\/visions-in-green.html"},"modified":"2007-08-15T17:29:29","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T17:29:29","slug":"visions_in_green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/15\/visions_in_green\/","title":{"rendered":"Visions in Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><em>and wonderfully i fell through the green groove<br \/>\nof twilight striking into many a piece.&#160; &#8211;ee cummings<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the country of Ireland deserves its own <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Color_space\">color space<\/a>: the famous &#8220;Forty Shades of Green&#8221; are a <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?hl=en&amp;q=malachite&amp;btnG=Search+Images&amp;gbv=2\">malachite<\/a> manhandling of your optic nerves that can&#8217;t be done justice using the puny ProPhoto or anything else.&#160; We need <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/ireland\/iRGB.jpg\"><strong>iRGB<\/strong><\/a><strong>*<\/strong>&#8211;Irish RGB&#8211;with the capacity to describe <em>hilariously<\/em> green tones found nowhere else in nature.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/ireland\/selects\/\">here are my photos from Ireland<\/a>.&#160; Once you&#8217;ve clicked the gallery for the first time, you can move through the images using left and right arrow keys.&#160; A few notes\/thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upside of asking a pro photographer friend for shooting\/gear advice before a trip like this: He&#8217;ll offer good suggestions, such as bringing a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graduated_ND_filter\">graduated ND filter<\/a> (which I wish I&#8217;d done).&#160; Downside: He&#8217;ll show you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steveuzzell.com\/_golf\/view.php?numImages=25&amp;current=14\">images he took<\/a> in the same spots, making you slap your forehead in dismay.&#160; (Thanks a <em>lot<\/em>, Steve, ;-)) <\/li>\n<li>I continue to wish that Flash respected color profiles.&#160; Because it doesn&#8217;t, the colors in the gallery are totally washed out**, at least on a Mac.&#160; (Right-click\/Cmd-click any one of them to see the difference, at least in Safari.)&#160; We&#8217;ll keep working towards a solution. <\/li>\n<li>I hate disrupting a scene using a flash, so I&#8217;m itching to replace my 17-85mm f4 lens with something comparable but faster.&#160; The surprising thing (to me, anyway) is that Canon&#8217;s higher-end glass (e.g. the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredmiranda.com\/24-70\/\">24-70mm f2.8<\/a>) doesn&#8217;t offer image stabilization.&#160; I&#8217;m not sure why that is, or whether losing it would hurt images relative to my current lens.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of green grooves, we referred to various roadways as &#8220;green bobsled&#8221; tracks&#8211;emerald walls whipping by in disturbingly close proximity to one&#8217;s head.&#160; Coming around a bend to find a Ford Focus leaning at a 45-degree angle, two wheels firmly up on a stone fence, was a useful cautionary moment.&#160; In describing the trip to her folks, I overheard my wife say, &#8220;They drive like the English.&#8221; &#8220;No,&#8221; I interjected, &#8220;they drive like Evel Knievel.&#8221;&#160; Sadly I couldn&#8217;t get any of this on film (er, sensor?).<\/li>\n<li>Someday I&#8217;d love to try shooting &#8220;The Clash of the Ash,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurling\">hurling<\/a>&#8211;&#8220;the world&#8217;s fastest field team sport.&#8221;&#160; Unlike soccer\/football, this is a game Americans could dig&#8211;not the kind of thing about which Stephen Colbert could quip, &#8220;I&#8217;ll help you tell the boring scoreless matches from the <em>riveting<\/em> scoreless matches.) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>* Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outbackphoto.com\/workflow\/wf_87\/essay.html\">Outback Photo<\/a> for the color space graphic.<br \/>\n** <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/misc\/managed_vs_unmanaged.jpg\">Here&#8217;s a screenshot<\/a> from a new iPhoto gallery, comparing the identical images shown via Safari (above) to those shown via a Flash gallery (below).<\/em>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and wonderfully i fell through the green groove of twilight striking into many a piece.&#160; &#8211;ee cummings I think the country of Ireland deserves its own color space: the famous &#8220;Forty Shades of Green&#8221; are a malachite manhandling of your optic nerves that can&#8217;t be done justice using the puny ProPhoto or anything else.&#160; We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}