I'm doing a series of 4x5 table top photographs that will be published in a book. I would appreciate comments from those who use color charts and gray scales on two questions:
Do you use a color chart and gray scale on the margin of each photograph, giving up part of the image area, or do you take two photographs, one containnig the chart and gray scale and one without?
If the former, and if you are taking the photograph at an angle of 90 degrees to 30 degrees to the subject, do you lay the chart flat on the table or do support it and angle it to the lens?
Also, I've read the new edition of Marshall Lee's Bookmaking. It is excellent, but it does not focus specifically on reproduction of color photographs. Can anyone suggest a book that discusses this subject at a level of detail that would help a photographer understand the printing workflow?
Thanks.
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