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Light source for hue evaluation

2007-09-30 by Richard Smallfield

Hi,
I'm wondering why I ever (partially) forsook my first love of BW and started doing colour as well ...

This problem relates also to toned BW prints, so I raise it here.

I've just printed a colour mural - one that I've done five or six times in the last year and *never* been satisfied with - and printed it, after evaluating the tones under a full-spectrum fluorescent light and outside on a partially cloudy day, calibrating the clouds against the ones I was looking at in the sky.

Well, it looked perfect outside. The problem is that prints are normally viewed under incandescent lighting ... which makes the clouds marginally mauve when I view it inside, with the lights on.

So I may finally admit defeat and end up doing it in BW with QTR ...

The question is, should one evaluate hue under a full spectrum light or daylight, when in reality it's going to be viewed under normal household illumination?

thanks,
Richard
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