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johnclimbrok
Mar 24, 2005, 6:14 PM
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martenb
Mar 25, 2005, 12:44 AM
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Its all about the context of use. In advertising everything is manipulated, professionally I am a digital compositor for the film/tv industry and that's what I do all day long, but I always hope that when I see a climbing / outdoors shot it is not manipulated.
For me the reason to do the B/W, desaturation of the 'background' and leave the climber untouched is to simply the clutter of the picture and highlight the action.
I personally don't like this look as it is a mixture of 2 physiological actions of the eye. The colour part is 'normal' daylight vision and the BW part is night or scoptic vision. We all lose our ability to decipher images in colour at night.
For me this creates an 'disturbing' photo, a photo that I don't trust, and I have less emotional attachment to it. My 1st reaction is not 'wow' but a less than positive reaction of 'how did he/she do that'.
IMHO this is a common reason of why effects laden movies are dismissed as crap because there is no emotional attachment.
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