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Pink on Pink in London

Sometimes the photography gods just hand you a gift, and this was one of those moments. I was walking through central London when I spotted this woman standing at the kerb in a pink striped shirt — and directly behind her, as if placed there by a set designer with a very specifi...

https://inphotos.org/2026/02/21/pink-on-pink-in-london/

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Pink on Pink in London

Sometimes the photography gods just hand you a gift, and this was one of those moments. I was walking through central London when I spotted this woman standing at the kerb in a pink striped shirt — and directly behind her, as if placed there by a set designer with a very specific sense of humour, sat one of London’s famously over-the-top pedicabs, absolutely dripping in hot pink and white faux fur.

The colour match was uncanny. She had no idea, of course.

Meanwhile the closest to correct water colour is base tint +50%, which is still too green everywhere else.

Basically, this is a weird printer.

I think I'm gonna try +1/8th on the red - maybe just a little shy of that - and +35 to 40% on the contrast. I really like how the non-bike-streets show up really clearly above +25% and I want to see how much of that I can retain _without_ starting to blow out the dark grey text.

#BikeMap #design #art #printing #ColourMatching

ANYWAY MUCH LATER

It's kinda weird! The amount of contrast has a real effect on the colour balance too on this printer. Not sure what's up with that.

+1/8 red +25% contrast for example gives me arguably good enough visibility on the Seattle non-bike streets, though I'd like slightly more. But the Greater Northshore proper background is a little too red and also still kinda light.

Then jumping to +50% contrast at 1/8 red somehow _corrects the colour balance in the land_. I don't know how that's happening. Unfortunately, it blows out the text a little, and makes the water more purple than I want - meaning that the red goes down in the land while increasing in the lake.

#BikeMap #design #art #printing #ColourMatching

What I made still isn't right but at least gets the idea across - to show how much shift I'm able to get out of the cheap oversized printer at the UPS Store in Kenmore.

The physical print will let me create a pre-mixed special edition MEGAMAP which can be printed on that printer in that shop and come out reasonably accurate.

#BikeMap #design #art #printing #ColourMatching

Here's what it looked like before I worked on it. THIS WAS THE BEST ONE I GOT.

I don't know what the fuck the phone thinks it's seeing but it's not what I see and _I_ see _ultraviolet_. WTF, phone.

#BikeMap #design #art #printing #ColourMatching

the amount of struggle I had to go through to get an even vaguely colour-accurate photo of this piece of paper on my iPhone 11 is honestly kind of crazymaking.

#BikeMap #design #art #printing #ColourMatching

Anyone know a reliable way to match colours ( non Pantone) in physical prints on laser or inkjet printers.
This isnt colour matching a monitor colours, this is for when you have a coloured print produced on laser printer a. Let say we print the same item maybe years later on another pc / laser printer. Even with original source file this is a hit n miss process, ive seen a few scanner that will give rgb or cmyk or pantones of existing prints but not sure if any good.
#printing #colourmatching

Blend in with the colours of Chioggia 🛵 This sunny yellow Vespa found the perfect camouflage in front of a wall of the same hue.
Can you spot it? ☀️🌻
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#Chioggia #VespaLife #ColourMatching #Camouflage #ScooterLove #ItalianStyle #TravelPhotography