Just to be clear, Igor - you don't at all understand my point of view ...
I think, however, Larry does :-)
ann
On 11/13/2018 5:23 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
These photos tell a story, even if some of them are not perfect as
stand-alone photographs.
And I agree with Ann about that B&W portrait: it stands on its own.
I know that type of challenging light quite well: it is very popular
in the blues and jazz/swing music/dance community. So, I appreciate the
challenges and the outcome.
Now, Ann's comment about purple people eaters raised in my mind the old
debate about how the photos reflect what we see/saw in real life.
When we have an incandescent light and yellowish faces, we are trying
to compensate for that yellow cast (filters and probably some film
processing in the era of film photography, or color balance for digital).
But the people do look under that light as if they had jaundice.
It's just that our brain corrects/compensates for that in real time.
So, the question is: should or should we not compensate for that
while taking the photos (filters/color balance/...) or in
post-processing?
The same question applies to recording a video.
After all, in many situations (these days, when different color lights
are available), - people purposely choose "warm light" (2700K) to create
a certain mood.
And now, for the purple/coquelicot/smaragdine/mikado/glaucous/fulvous
lights: They do create a certain atmosphere. So, why we do not get
shocked seeing those glaucous faces in the room, but many people get
the reaction like that of Ann's by any face color short of sarcoline
in the photos? Those colors in the photos should reflect the "real"
look of that room and people in it and convey that mood. Right?
Cheers,
Igor
PS. I am not being critical of Ann's reaction, I understand it.
Rather, I am thinking out loud about the interesting effect our
brain plays on us. These thoughts are also a followup to the
previous conversation about "truthful" images in photography.
PPS. Strange color names? Look them up! ;-)
Larry Colen Mon, 12 Nov 2018 06:40:24 -0800 wrote:
ann sanfedele wrote on 11/12/18 5:24 AM:
To say the light was challenging was an understatement - purple
people eaters yikes
The super saturated light from LEDs can make photography very
challenging. You have to carefully watch the histogram so that you
don't blow out one of the channels, even if you aren't going to try to
bring things back to "normal"
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