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General Science => General Science => Topic started by: neilep on 31/07/2011 11:16:45
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Dear Black & Whiteologists,
As a sheepy I of course come in two colours...Black & White !...Being black and white is all I think about. Not colour !.....and being either black or white helps me make more impact !
The same can be said for photos,
Take a look at this photo of some idiot holding a spoon taken with an el crapo mobile phone (US translation service: Mobile phone = Cell Phone...sheesh !)
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Now, turn it black and white...
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............and all of a sudden the the photo becomes a bold statement of contemporary art, A stark cold insight into the oblique abandonment of a world in chaos. An allegorical contrast that highlights the biomorphic collage of negative space in a one-point linear perspective hue.
So, why does a Black and White Photo offer more impact than a colour one ?
whajafink ?
Hugs and shmishes
mwah mwah mwah
neil
Art For Arts Sake (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIb34oA7Q-Q)
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Dear Sir,
For your edification, please find enclosed a photo of a black and white gear from the early fifties alongside and a highly colourful gear that I just made.
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You associate monochrome photography with art, other image formats have other associations ...
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My personal feeling on this, is the contrast. Monochrome pictures have a greater contrast impact than colour (US = color) pictures.
As a monochrome sheepy, what nursery rhyme were you taught in place of 'Bah Bah Black Sheep'? Might it have been 'Parsley, Mint, Rosemary & Gravy'?
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RD - which programme has the colour cartoon filter - tis very neat
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Dear Sir,
For your edification, please find enclosed a photo of a black and white gear from the early fifties alongside and a highly colourful gear that I just made.
Oh my !!.....unzzzzzip !!....oh.....my !!!!!
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You associate monochrome photography with art, other image formats have other associations ...
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Fantastic RD !...that's kwality !...it's GIMP yes ?...three works of art from one photo !! [:o]
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My personal feeling on this, is the contrast. Monochrome pictures have a greater contrast impact than colour (US = color) pictures.
As a monochrome sheepy, what nursery rhyme were you taught in place of 'Bah Bah Black Sheep'? Might it have been 'Parsley, Mint, Rosemary & Gravy'?
I agree Don !.....I wonder why Monochrome Contrast has more impact !...is it because we live in a colour world perhaps ?..what's the science behind the emotional impact ?
I'd show ewe my leg but I fear ewe may eat it ! [:D]
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SOUNDS GOOD! I'm starving!!!..lol....
I love the "cartoonalized", or animated picture...very cool!
Hey I made up a word because animated is not the right word either....
AH HA...ILLUSTRATED...only in cartoon style.
Neily whats the proper word for what a cartoonist does? I can't recall?
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SOUNDS GOOD! I'm starving!!!..lol....
I love the "cartoonalized", or animated picture...very cool!
Hey I made up a word because animated is not the right word either....
AH HA...ILLUSTRATED...only in cartoon style.
Neily whats the proper word for what a cartoonist does? I can't recall?
Well Kareny Mam,
I believe the technical terminology is to 'cartoonify' !....The act of doing so is ' cartoonifying '......Once completed ..it has been ' cartoonified '
Wasn't it that frenchy philospher chap who said:
"Cogito ergo Cartoon": English: "I cartoon, therefore I exist") it's a philosophical Latin statement proposed by René Descartes !!
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or caricature (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricature) ...
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So, why does a Black and White Photo offer more impact than a colour one ?
In my opinion:
1. Because it leaves more space to our imagination
2. because it reminds us of old --> ancient --> mysterious things.
I remember some old BW science fiction movies which, objectively, have litte "content" but that really impressed me when I was a boy, in the 80' (colour movies already existed [;D]) because of the feelings they conveyed to me.
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I remember some old BW science fiction movies which, objectively, have litte "content" but that really impressed me when I was a boy, in the 80' (colour movies already existed [;D]) because of the feelings they conveyed to me.
Something like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir
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Monochrome images can be much higher contrast than a typical colour image : the eye is drawn to high contrast.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Halsman
[ The RSPCA wouldn't let you get away with that today ].
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I remember some old BW science fiction movies which, objectively, have litte "content" but that really impressed me when I was a boy, in the 80' (colour movies already existed [;D]) because of the feelings they conveyed to me.
Something like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir
No, like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quatermass_Xperiment
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I don't think ("28") buckets of water (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Salvador_Dali_A_%28Dali_Atomicus%29_09633u.jpg) were involved in the Dali-Halsman picture ...
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