[LargeFormat] Light Tents in the Field

Clive Warren largeformat@f32.net
Sat Jul 6 21:27:37 2002


At 8:56 pm -0400 6/7/02, Gregor33@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 7/6/02 7:44:08 PM Central Daylight Time,
>cocam@blueyonder.co.uk writes:
>
><< "Bluing is a material that fluoresces blue under normal lighting
>  conditions. If you have a surface that is emitting a blue light, then
>  that eliminates any yellow light that you would otherwise see. What
>  this means is that your sheets are actually yellowish, but the bluing
>  in them fluorescing blue eliminates the yellow, and so they appear
>  white to us - but perhaps not to the film and camera."
>   >>
>
>Clive,
>
>This gave me a headache. Was this actually printed somewhere. I'm sorry
>perhaps I'm just showing my simple upbringing yeah that's my story.
>
>chow
>
>Greg Orlando

Greg,

It hit me straight between the eyes...... Yep, it's at the URL John posted:

>More information is provided by Charles Lewton-Brain:
>http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/reflect.htm


Make sure you have someone standing by to guide you to a comfy chair 
immediately after reading the page ;-)

Cheers,
        Clive