In a previous post (see Casting metal: Trichrome photography ) I showed trichrome photography for the first time, using black and white film. In short, you take three pictures with a red, green and blue filter and combine them later.
If you want to see it a bit more explained, look at that previous post.
Of course you can do the same thing with digital camera's. It even has some benefits. So here is one of my examples
Using a digital camera has some advantages. I always set my settings to monochrome, so I can see the black white result on the back. But because I see raw, I can always find out, which filter I used at each picture. Making it less hassle to remember which picture was which color. Which sounds not that difficult, but after waiting to shoot a whole roll, developing and having film that isn´t numbered, that kind of makes you doubt yourself if you have it right.
As you can see in the picture above the camera moved a bit between the pictures, so there is a yellow and blue banner at the sides. When I was editing the picture, I actually liked that a bit, because it shows a bit of how it works.
As you can see, almost all my pictures I took with the digital camera for thrichrome exist of clouds and water. This is of course because they are quite noticeable move between the pictuers. Giving a nice effect.
Another thing I noticed, it seems to have a certain colorcast or coloreffect over the picture. And I'm not really sure the origin of that. During editing I ofcourse can influence it and make it a bit more blue or green. But I never got the feeling I could edit it so that there wouldn´t be that effect. So that does make me think that it is maybe the filters I use.
I don´t use filters that are made for this. I had a Lee
colour filter set for PAR64 laying around, so filters that you normally put in front of stage lights (see my previous post for picture with a filter in front of the camera). And I wanted to try out this technique without investing money. So one theory is because the filters are not the default RGB colors, the result is different. This is maybe fixable in other ways during the post processing, but I like the style.
As last I want to point you to the last effect this style has. It is a bit the same as the clouds, but if you look at the sailboat in above picture and the pigeons in the pictures with the fountain, you can see they are depicted in different colors, depending where there where each shot.
I hope you enjoyed these pictures