I mentioned working on another web project. Over the past couple of years I’ve been thinking more and more about the craft of photography in the practice of archaeology. Mostly because I work with rock art where digital photography has become the most common (and sometimes the only) way of recording them. So I’ve set up a thinking space for archaeological photography, and thus, the Archaeograph:
This blog has a decidedly more tech and geek slant to it, talking about equipment, techniques and photographic experiments. Check it out, and if you’re so inclined, subscribe to it.
Hmmm… Eventually I’ll have to fit writing a thesis in between of all this!
If you tweak it correctly, you can just use the red-channel to bring out the “faded” ochre paintings. That’s how I did it, and will do it for most of the cave-paintings in my book
Ah, we use a special software for that (NOT photoshop) and I’ll blog about that soon enough!