Frank, you sound like you're about to start "People for the Ethical Treatment of Greyscales" - cool down, man!
2011/3/1 Bob W <[email protected]>: >> I'm totally against the death penalty (sorry for starting a political >> thread). >> >> But in the case of the person who colourized this photo: >> >> http://alaintruong.canalblog.com/archives/2009/04/15/13399690.html >> >> I say, "string him up!" >> >> When I was answering Darren Addy on another thread, I was looking for >> a proper rendition of this masterpiece to tack onto my reply. When >> doing a Google search I came across this (there were a few others that >> were colourized, too). >> >> Why would anyone do this? >> >> Why? >> >> I'm outraged. >> >> <rant over> >> >> cheers, >> frank > > Put the noose away, Frank - you may be about to hang an innocent man! > > It is not the usual frame that we see. As Ann has said, it was a commercial > shoot, and the boy was supposed to look behind when he was level with the > pebble that you see on the ground. By coincidence I bought a tin of Erwitt > notecards a few days ago, and the usual b&w frame is in that set. I have > just compared them and they are quite clearly different shots. > > This one may well have been shot in colour, EE covering himself in case it > was preferred. I think it looks like a colour original, not a colourized > version. > > B > > > -- > 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.
