3 ms·
This is very impressive but I'll be that person. I shudder when I see someone/something colorize the works of masters of black-and-white like Ansel Adams or He
by ickwabe 11y ago
This is very impressive but I'll be that person.
I shudder when I see someone/something colorize the works of masters of black-and-white like Ansel Adams or Henri Cartier-Bresson. Just a horrible mangling of their work.
Adams for example could have used color, and did take many hundreds of color photos[1]. But in his work for display he deliberately and consciously chose black-and-white and put in much effort in the lab to get the final images just they way he wanted them.
So while I truly appreciate the technological achievement here, I still cringe at the what I see as distorting the artists' work.
[1]http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/ansel-adams-in-color-145315674/?no-ist http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/ansel-adams-in-co...
- mistercow 11y agoI really don't think the intention is to say "look we improved this!", but rather to have a visually striking (since the original photo is visually striking) result that doesn't have a "ground truth color" to compare it to.
- ickwabe 11y agoYes of course and I appreciate that. Just my opinion but in that case I would not have used images with such artistic weight. There certainly plenty black and white images to choose from.