RE: Removing Color from Older Images is Unacceptable
December 15, 2018 at 12:24 am
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2018 at 12:27 am by LostLocke.)
(December 14, 2018 at 11:22 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: One thing that seriously pisses me off is when people deliberately remove color from an image. Why the fuck would anybody deliberately degrade an image? I know this is done because I routinely see images from the middle 70s-onward in black and white when it is extremely unlikely images taken in that era would be taken in black and white film. Why do this?B&W film never went out of style. Even though color had become king even before the 70s, B&W was still used, and still is today, even in this age of digital*.
If it's a photo you know was in color and are asking why someone "shopped" it into B&W, I have no clue. Why do some people insist on colorizing an image that was intentionally taken as B&W? I also have no clue. But, meh... whatever they want to do.
Lots of images that start as color work well as a B&W. Some are actually better as B&W, too.
*Leica makes a beautiful monochrome rangefinder camera. It's digital, but it literally only shoots in B&W. Clocks in at $7200. If money were no object I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
