Thanks Bob ans William. Your opinions surely differ. I think I'll go with Williams definition. Because WHITE IS a color. Black is not. I believe monochrome means painting with one colour - usually white, but it could be any other colour.
The base on which I can paint is black, which is not a colour (absense of light). So, in monochrome, I can substitute White with any other colour, but the black base is a MUST. So, a picture, using blue ink on a yellow base is NOT monochrome, thats's two colours. Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Aug 20, 2008 20:50 "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It refers to different shades of the same colour. Yellow and blue, red > and green are not the same colour. You could do shades of red, shades > of blue, etc. which could include white. > > Bob > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Jens > > Sent: 20 August 2008 09:21 > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: OT: Define Monochrome > > > > Hello list > > In my camera club we had a discussion: > > What is monochrome? What's the "official" photographic definition? > > > > It seems the original definition is about painting with only > > one colour. Black. For instance - on white paper or canvas. > > > > This gives me a problem: Black & White - that's two colours. > > Or perhaps just one: White, since black is not a colour. White is. > > > > So, B&W is paintning with to colours: Light and no > > light/light and darkness and all shades in between. > > > > So why is "yellow and blue", or "red and green" etc. not > > acceptable within the definition of monochrome? Or is it ? > > > > The only way I seem to be able to understand the monochrome > > definition is this: > > > > In monohrome photography we paint with light in the darkness. > > With white on black. Or with white on any other background. > > So white on blue, white on green. white on red etc. > > Right? > > > > Regards > > Jens > > > > -- > > Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > > above and follow the directions. > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
