Color Photography

Color photography works with many other colors besides gray and black as opposed to the black and white photographs. The cameras for color photography use technologies that absorb and conserve colors. The color is derived after the processing of the films. An exclusive chemical process is used for bringing out the color in the photographs.

Color photography is totally different from back and white photography that has the technology which can only produce the gray and black color.

There are several aspects of color photography. Few of them are:

Color negatives

Roll films

Sheet films

Transparencies

Prints

The film for color photography was used for the first time in the year 1935. It was supported by tri- colored colloid and was named Kodachrome. The instant color photography became popular during 1963 when Polaroid came up with their instant photo films.

Color photography has to go through several processes. The two basic processes followed in the field of color photography are:

Subtractive system: This system deals with the basic colors like cyan, magenta and yellow. This is a process where the color is deducted from the white light and pigments.

Additive system: This is the process where the basic colors like red, green and blue are added in the light form during the processing of the photos.

Color photography has to depend on two major kinds of color film that are in use now. They are:

Color negative film: photos are processed from this film by developing the negative image that is formed while taking photographs. The photographic papers carry the positive images after developing the negatives.

Color reversal film: this film gives out a negative image after the films are exposed. It is then transferred in to positive image on the photographic paper.

Color Photography has become the face of modern civilization capturing almost every aspect of human life.