A bot too vivid but still nice work. On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
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