Hi all, I had a strange experience today and I need some advice. I discovered a public art opportunity in my area with short notice last week. They require 5 slides of my prints for judging. These are B&W prints made on a 2200 with the standard UltraChrome inks, standard Epson driver. I'd never shot slides of prints before, but I decided to set up my 35mm Nikon and shoot a roll of Ektachrome 64T tungsten balanced film. How hard could that be? I closed the vertical blinds, taped the prints to a black matt board & hung them on a wall, set up a couple of tungsten photo lights (3200K) (not strobes) and exposed 36 slides for 1/4 second, based on my spotmeter reading (with some aperture-based bracketing to cover my bets.) No filter on the camera or in front of the lights. As far as I understand, this is all standard operating procedure for photographing flat artwork. Though as I say, I've never done this before. I just picked up the slides. They were exposed correctly, but every one has a deep magenta cast. The prints looked nicely neutral to my eye when shooting. I could shoot another roll of slides, but I don't understand what I ought to change. Is it possible this is a function of metamerism in the UC inks that only appears on color film? (That sound ridiculous to me--I'm embarrassed to even state the question. But there it is.) Has anyone shot slides of UC prints as described above and got neutral results? Or can someone guess from the above description what sort of dopey mistake I made? Could the lab that processed the film have screwed them up somehow? Thanks for all advice, David ps. I know I could find a service bureau to print the slides from a digital file, or use Scala, but I thought this would be both cheaper and faster. In the future, when I have more time to prepare, I imagined I would use Scala.
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Color slides of Ultrachrome prints... magenta?
2003-11-06 by David Wroblewski
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