Sepia either means a dark, reddish brown colour, or the lighter and less red tone which was once the only option in photography, but which I was unable to recreate with my digital camera and computer. It's also the fluid secreted by a cuttlefish, the pigment prepared from that, or a drawing created using it.
Don't know about you, but I'd rather have colour at the press of a button, than squeeze a cuttlefish in the hope of monochrome.
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Fascinating meanings, Patsy - I do like giving some photos a sepia tint!
Just for you, I'll use a sepia filter on one of my shots for you.
Hi Patsy - sepia is rather lovely ... but I too would rather not squeeze a cuttlefish ... cheers Hilary
No, I'd rather not squeeze a cuttlefish! They call cuttlefish 'sepia' in Spain; I prefer squid.
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Travel, Fiction and Photos
I tried to do one for this post, but as you can see from the pictures I used, that didn't work.
I look forward to seeing it, Mac.
I suspect they'd be slippery and shoot out of our grasp, Hilary.
Presumably that's how the colour gots its name then?
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