I don't like 'colourised' photos. (With AI imagery stuff)

I don't like either, Marmite or coloured photos :wink:

The small photos I found of my father, plus a few badly damaged 56 Recce originals one member sent to me have all been restored to their former glory, without colour. They look much better that way.

Lesley

 

Many serious photographers will tell you that Black and White Photographs are more Aesthetic.

When doing my own work I did prefer B & W, but used Colour for Holiday Snaps.

 

Adam & Lesley

Is this the type of colourised photos you object to ?
http://ww2talk.com/forums/gallery/image/12-11943-septemberbari-italy-bbc/

or perhaps this one ?
http://ww2talk.com/forums/gallery/image/13-1944-004-august-cairo-egypt-bbc/

Ron

 

What I don't see the point of is colourising really well known photos? Recently saw a few colourised versions of the iconic Frank Hurley photos taken on the Western Front which were, putting it mildly, rubbish and managed to reduce Hurley's work to the very ordinary. Poor.

 

I think Ansel Adams would probably spin in his grave at the thought of his B&W photos being colourized ... It could be argued that any kind of reproduction is already a reinterpretation of the original no matter how hard one tries to make it look the same. I'm not against colourization if it's really well done, and gives a new insight to the subject, but I'll take the original any day over the coloured one if offered. So I guess I'm a ditherer.

Regards ...

 

Good grief that's sacrilege! Always hated falsely coloured photos, even when done contemporarily.

(Incidentally that's Karsh's master piece of Churchill, not Ansel Adams)

 

Nearly had one done for gt uncle (WW1), but the quote never came back. Pleased I did not chase it up now. So did a diy job cleaning up the rough bits with Photoshop cloning tool.

 

Lee,

Ah it's not that bad and not the least bit disrespectful It's titled "Karsh Photo Colourized". I'll add a pretty good B&W version of Karsh's photo of Churchill. That's all it is by the way - a version. Nothing you see in a book or on your computer can match the original be it B&W or done in pink polka dots. In fact most of the B&W repro photos I see are pretty damn crappy. In some cases they been enhanced to look better than the originals. Would you as an author ever consider putting a colourized photo on the cover of a book? You see it all the time nowadays.

I can't believe I'm actually defending well done colourized photos ... :P

Regards ...

 

Totally agree Cee, no reproduction does a good black and white image justice. There's always a loss in tonaity and sharpness, especially something like Karsh's Churchill photos.

 

There is a colourized photo of my Parents wedding photo, which I don't like. I much prefer the Black and White version.

 

I had this conversation with my Grandfather a few years back I prefer their original media ,black and white /serpia but not for how they look but black/white /serpia makes it seem from a different age a time when the world was black/white (in my minds eye at least ) colour brings these horrors into my world and the realisation that this wasn't really so long ago and it happened HERE,not in the museums or the pages of history books, the people in them are/were real .I think when I was at primary school I might have even thought the world then was Black and white and colour was something new? My Grandfather told me "If I had time to think things like that then I`ve got far too much time on my hands!" He was probably right


Kyle

 

Some are done well. I don't mind if done well.

 

We have one of my wife taken in the late fifties. They have reduced the black and white contrast, then added these pastel colours. It looks horrible and I try to keep it hidden away.

 

Occasionally it makes sense with something like a classic portrait photo, something that the.....engineer? editor??...is going to take the time and effort really needed over.

But for smaller pics,or film clips, I dislike it intensely, it masks detail. I was recently involved in a spat over a colorized classic postcard pic; the colorized version had a woman walking down the side of camera shot in a "timeless" yellow dress...but in the original version she was wearing a 1950s skirt, blouse and scarf!

 

I am like Gage if done right no problem to me.

 

I have clicked that I like it but again would agree that it must be done right.

I think there is merit in doing it as long as the B+W image is appreciated as the actual image and the colourised one is viewed as an interesting copy.

Dave