{"id":550,"date":"2016-06-18T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=550"},"modified":"2016-06-18T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T18:32:59","slug":"colour-correctness-june-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"(Towards) Colour Correctness &#8211; June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/35-ColourChart.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really struggled with the second build to track the progress of the finishing of the body in photographs. The colour wandered all over the place depending on time of day \/ lighting. In an attempted to get a more realistic representation of the colours in my photos I&#8217;ve started started using the <em>X-Rite ColorChecker Passport Photo<\/em>. Hopefully this will get calibrated colours and a good white point. I&#8217;ll try and use it for all shots when I&#8217;m focusing on the finishing, the rest I&#8217;ll continue to free form a bit no doubt.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/36-ThreePurples.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a shot of the same alcohol based aniline dye:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(Middle) On ash, looks pretty flat<\/li>\n<li>(Bottom) Black premized spirit dye as a first coat, sanded back before the colour coat<\/li>\n<li>(Top) On birdseye maple, everything looks better on such a nice piece of wood. This bit hasn&#8217;t been sanded before hand, which ends up flattening the gain a lot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/37-LiquidDye.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A difficult colour to keep consistent in my photos no doubt. I&#8217;m liking it on the maple (left), not sure on the more yellow ash (right). Less consistent coverage than the strong purple it feels.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/images\/guitar4\/38-Comparison.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The two dyes on the same bit of maple for comparison. I think I need to prep some of the body off-cuts into some well sanded sections to do some real tests upon in coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really struggled with the second build to track the progress of the finishing of the body in photographs. The colour wandered all over the place depending on time of day \/ lighting. In an attempted to get a more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/?p=550\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitar-three"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isomorph.co.uk\/guitarBuild\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}