How a little bit of blah colour can have big impact

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How a little bit of blah colour can have big impact. First here's a couple black and whites from last week's ice storm. Have a good look at them...before scrolling down to the third and last pic that was shot the day before in heavy overcast conditions. At the time I thought the overcast pic had very very little pop but... after comparing it to the stark black and whites its' muted colour hit me like a firetruck.









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this had a very simple look at the time and still now... that bit of soft green seems a strong contrast to the understated sky snow and tree.

[nditty]

You have a gifted eye Charlie, I didn't even notice the green undertones of the evergreens, until you pointed it out.  Great pictures.

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Dec 27, 2013 14:25:08 GMT nditty said:

You have a gifted eye Charlie, I didn't even notice the green undertones of the evergreens, until you pointed it out.  Great pictures.

Thanks for commenting on the pic!
"the green undertones of the evergreens"
Neal that's just the phrase I should have used... undertones better describes the situation in that pic.
BTW..
There's so little action here at the new Easysharers, what do you think is holding folks back from joining in like we did in the old days on the older forum?

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To my eye, the second picture has by far the most impact. In fact, as soon as I looked at it some of the shots of winter by Alfred Stieglitz came to mind. Type into Bing "Central Park" by Alfred Stieglitz and then check the Images to see what I mean. There's a magic to the lighting and shadow that works in the first two... particularly the second one. The warming effect of the color puts me more in mind of color slide film that is losing its color. I'm just not seeing it, Charlie. BUT... I love your little lessons since it challenges us to "think" for a change.

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Dec 27, 2013 15:11:08 GMT @jamesd said:

To my eye, the second picture has by far the most impact. In fact, as soon as I looked at it some of the shots of winter by Alfred Stieglitz came to mind. Type into Bing "Central Park" by Alfred Stieglitz and then check the Images to see what I mean. There's a magic to the lighting and shadow that works in the first two... particularly the second one. The warming effect of the color puts me more in mind of color slide film that is losing its color. I'm just not seeing it, Charlie. BUT... I love your little lessons since it challenges us to "think" for a change.

well yes impact for impact sake, the back-lit black and white conversions have some smack to em...
but the thing was that the coloured photo as you say has that muted look. Allowing for the shot being taken on a very overcast day that's what we'd expect. But, what surprised me was how what muted colour that was there seemed to be much more pronounced and important to the photo after first looking at the bold striking look of the black and whites.

Also, your reference (a couple times of late) to the look of fading colour photographs I find very telling and interesting. Not only can I see what you mean but that it would occur to you and not to me. Because I was not into film photography that is not my paradigm but it seems that your experience influences you to look at photos from the inclination of a film guy.

I'll check out Stieglitz's Central Park pics. ... from memory my fav Stieglitz is that pic of the street car horses in the snow with the steam rising off their hot bodies. hmmmm.... lets see if I can find it.

 

and this one

 

and this was cropped out of this view... so if Stieglitz cropped why shouldn't we? Well you and I don't ever need to crop of course but if we did. (just saying)

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Indeed... "if" Stieglitz cropped why not you and I? Well... now my estimation of the guy has been considerably lowered... (just kidding). His photography is magic, is it not?!

It's so interesting to see these moments captured in time so long ago... those men and women (and even animals) all long gone now, having walked the earth long before you and I. And yet they were captured in a moment of time... in the twinkling of an eye!

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Dec 28, 2013 0:33:51 GMT @jamesd said:

Indeed... "if" Stieglitz cropped why not you and I? Well... now my estimation of the guy has been considerably lowered... (just kidding). His photography is magic, is it not?!

It's so interesting to see these moments captured in time so long ago... those men and women (and even animals) all long gone now, having walked the earth long before you and I. And yet they were captured in a moment of time... in the twinkling of an eye!

I guess in his day he was the grand old man of photography..
Interesting that while he was a pictorialist favoring that painterly look, he also gave Ansel Adams his big break with a showing in his New York gallery. That would have been a stretch for Stieglitz to jump on-board the hyper realistic look of Adams and his F64 camera club members.

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Charlie... drop me a message at leushino no spam "at" hotmail no spam dot com (leave out the no spam). We need to talk.

[skutterbug]

Very nice Charlie...don't miss color in these at all...

[Chris]

It's amazing what just a dab of color can do for a picture. Nice shots, Charlie.

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Dec 29, 2013 1:48:51 GMT skutterbug said:

Very nice Charlie...don't miss color in these at all...

speaking of colour,,,,what's it like down there in Florida anyway?

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Dec 29, 2013 21:53:36 GMT Chris said:

It's amazing what just a dab of color can do for a picture. Nice shots, Charlie.

did you see the movie Pleasantville?
Colour and the lack of colour played a major role in that movie

[steved]

Any ideas why I cannot see the photos?