I left them a comment to that effect. Mix a little black or grey into the colors to tone them down, sez I who never colorized anything, ever.
Joseph McAllister [email protected] http://gallery.me.com/jomac On Jul 1, 2011, at 08:42 , John Sessoms wrote: > From: "P. J. Alling" >> Computers can do some wonderful things, maybe this is even one of them... >> >> http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/06/colourized-america-1862-1923/ >> >> Sometimes B&W is an artistic or editorial choice, so IMNSHO colorizing >> something like "Casablanca" is heresy, but for most of the history of >> photography there was no choice, so I'm kind of OK with this. >> > > Some of these the colors are a bit vivid. I think slightly more subdued > colors similar to the old tinting oils would work better. It doesn't bother > me all that much. But, the originals are still preserved intact, so I don't > see it as much different than hand coloring B&W prints with oils. > > I have watched the "colorized" version of the Maltese Falcon. It looked like > B&W film had been hand tinted frame by frame, and that the colors had faded > after a while. Wasn't overblown or garish like some of these are. > > It didn't detract from the film, nor keep me from enjoying the film again in > B&W. > -- 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.
