Re:A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
by SilasX on Thursday June 11, 2020 @02:15AM
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>> As an extension of this photographs of individuals with darker skin required more lighting than photographs of individuals with darker skin.
>This is plain physics, no? Things are darker or lighter depending on the amount of light they reflect.
Not quite. I don't know all the technical terms, but apparently, photograph technology early on settled on some standards and made some design choices that made it easier to photograph white than black people. That set a long-term precedent and standard for how film should work that persisted for a while and even to the present.
>>>Until recently, due to a light-skin bias embedded in colour film stock emulsions and digital camera design, the rendering of non-Caucasian skin tones was highly deficient and required the development of compensatory practices and technology improvements to redress its shortcomings. Using the emblematic “Shirley” norm reference card as a central metaphor reflecting the changing state of race relations/aesthetics, this essay analytically traces the colour adjustment processes in the industries of visual representation and identifies some prototypical changes in the field...
>This is plain physics, no? Things are darker or lighter depending on the amount of light they reflect.
Not quite. I don't know all the technical terms, but apparently, photograph technology early on settled on some standards and made some design choices that made it easier to photograph white than black people. That set a long-term precedent and standard for how film should work that persisted for a while and even to the present.
>>>Until recently, due to a light-skin bias embedded in colour film stock emulsions and digital camera design, the rendering of non-Caucasian skin tones was highly deficient and required the development of compensatory practices and technology improvements to redress its shortcomings. Using the emblematic “Shirley” norm reference card as a central metaphor reflecting the changing state of race relations/aesthetics, this essay analytically traces the colour adjustment processes in the industries of visual representation and identifies some prototypical changes in the field...
https://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/219...
Lay article on the topic:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/syreetamcfadden/teachin...