Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I love B&W. Absolutely adore it. So, sometimes when I'm watching films on TV, I'll say to myself, "hmm, this is a black and white film", because the photography and lighting make colour superfluous. Well, last night I watched a not too brilliant Australian sci-fi film called "Zone 39" on the Sci-Fi channel. About three minutes into the film I realized it would look much better without colour. Removing the colour and playing with brightness (to get texture in the shadows) and contrast (to get texture in the highlights), I ended up watching the rest of the movie in B&W. It was brilliant: Every shot looked like an Ansel Adams print ;-) Didn't improve the plot though ;) M. - -- Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Just "DOHH" it! SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho