Dunno what’s up here, but the color is wrong. Normally, if you set the automatic white balance setting for natural light and film an object in incandescent light, the image looks yellowish, and if you film outside in nature light with the camera set to incandescent, you wind up with a bluish image. Here an outdoor shot looks yellowish. Whatever the cause it looks wrong. Let’s hope it was just a mistake rather than intentional!
Posted May 26, 2012 by Keyser Söze under Art Appreciation, Babes, Photography
May 27th, 2012 at 9:15 am
Isn’t this trying to look like a colour photograph from the 50s?
Prints from that period and even print advertising tend to have this odd look.Fading over the years, or shortcomings in the technology of the time?
May 27th, 2012 at 10:23 am
Maybe you’re right. It is true that old photos sometimes look “off”. Is that like the way when you leave things in the sun, the blue colors remain but the red fades away?
May 27th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
I’m not sure. It may have been something about Kodak’s process from the period. Slides on German film from the late 50s retain much of their colour, but those odd rare colour films from the War don’t. Or were washed out like that to begin with. “Technicolor” isn’t real, if one thinks about it, but it is so overpowering that one doesn’t notice. Movies from the 70s sometimes appear washed out in ways that some from the 50s and 60s don’t. Presumably all some kind of chemistry. Nothing to do with reviving the dead, so quite outside my field.
May 27th, 2012 at 4:57 pm
I take it you don’t get out to the cinema (as the SWPL crowd calls it) much these days, what with your resurrectory experimentation and the like? I gather movies are filed on video nowadays, and that’s the cause of their faded look. Everything’s all grey and brown. I’m not so sure about the content, but when it comes to the visual impact, give me a ’50s movie in brilliant Panavision any day!