Seeing in Black and White
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Jo Murphy
- transNdan
- Carol Wallace
- desertblue
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Georgene A. Bramlage
- Carol Wallace
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Jo Murphy
- Beautiful Photography
It had never ocurred that we would want anything to be grainy?
I had been working over time to get the graininess out?
See the card below?
There are two little blue patches.
They turn up in my work - not often but often enough to be a bother.
Just when I am really happy with something I'll save it and then come back later not the first save and there will be these two lil' blue patches.
Grrr! :-[
Do you have quirks turning up in your pictures unexpectedly?
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-- posted by Jo Murphy
» transNdan - Re: Beautiful Photography
In response to message posted by martine3038:Jo - Thank you for the compliments.
Adding graininess to a photo is just to mimic the graniness of infrared film. Sometimes it adds character and sometimes not. It's subjective.
As for your problems with the lil' blue patches: that's pretty strange. I'd have to know more about what you are using to take the photos - digital camera or scanner? My guess is that it's a hardware problem though I've never heard of "patches". Sometimes a single cells on a CCD chip can go bad but that would only result in one single pixel being miscoloured. Perhaps you could send me a photo or two that are effected and I can help you track down the problem or at least suggest a way to fix it in Photoshop.
-- posted by transNdan
» Carol Wallace - Re: Re: Beautiful Photography
In response to message posted by transNdan:Jo, those look to me a bit like light reflections that I sometimes got from my scanner. Rescanning after moving the photo slightly sometimes helped. It often hapened when my scanner lamp was going bad.
Dan - what you say here about black and white revealing what color can often conceal is exactly why I like to convert garden photos to black and white. Color often masks or makes design flaws difficult to spot. Look at the real garden and you know something is wrong and yet you can't pinpoint it. Take a photo and you have the same problem - because if the colors work you still have something pleasing. But convert it to black and white and the problems with form and texture suddenly become apparent. Then I can go to the real garden and solve the problem - and take a better picture of the better garden when I am done.
-- posted by Carol Wallace
» desertblue - great article!
As a true-blue 'Anselite', I agree completely with your comments about clouds, textures and shadows. I also liked the romantic photo of your wife. I'm going to have to get my man to take some nice BnW pictures of me, one of these days...-- posted by desertblue
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Georgene A. Bramlage
- Re: Re: Re: Beautiful Photography
Carol, Thanks for the really neat idea...I usually suggest taking photos to spot design problems as "the camera doesn't lie." However, I never thought about the fact that color can be a distraction in many instances. May I pass your idea along in my next article about design problems? Thanks in advance...
-- posted by Georgene A. Bramlage
» Carol Wallace - Re: Beautiful Photography
In response to message posted by Cercis:Help yourself, Georgene - I'm sure the idea didn't originate with me. I probably read it somewhere and then had to come home and play with my camera.
-- posted by Carol Wallace
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