Lentic - photography

I’m not talking about the color of the eye here, but how the eye perceives color.

Martin gave me a couple of prints on the harman gloss paper when we met this weekend. I was kind of hoping that Harman had packed the paper I got wrong since I perceive it to be warmer in tone than the luster paper I have. I’m talking Epson premium luster, Ilford smooth pearl and Fine Art Pearl. Everyone else, except for the guy I talked to in the photo store here in Oslo, seems to think it is whiter and colder than most other papers. Well, Harman didn’t pack my paper wrong, Martin paper looked exactly the same as mine. That leaves only my uncalibrated eyes and brain. Somehow the cold/warm scale must be flipped up there.

I think I will try an experiment tomorrow. I will photograph a stack of different papers and open the result in photoshop. Maybe the eyedropper tool will tell me something. After all, a cold tone paper should have more blue in it, and a warm tone more red.