GeeBee wrote:
>Olympus OM2 SP : Zuiko 21mm f2 : red filter : Kodak T400CN
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>http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05078.htm
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>Same shot different film
>Olympus OM2 SP : Zuiko 21mm f2 : Agfa Vista 200
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>http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05079.htm
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I love your images of English countryside, churches, villages, etc. an
am always looking forward to the next shot. In most cases where you post
both, I prefer the color, as I do here. I understand this to be a matter
of taste with which others will disagree.
As another matter of taste, I find the flat, ghostly images of some
buildings, especially some of the wonderful churches, odd and out of
balance with the rest of the image in some of the shots.
I have suspected for some time that this is a result of using a red
filter on buildings with significant red tones in the stone or brick.
This pair of images provides a great example of what I am talking about.
The bridge is a major part of the (excellent) composition, yet is flat
and washed out in the B&W shot. In color, it has all kinds of detail and
texture.
I've taken the liberty of taking the color shot and simply desaturating
it. No fancy tricks of balancing the channels, which might work better.
Then I put it next to the red filtered B&W. Like I said, it's a matter
of taste, but overall I prefer the unfiltered shot. The bridge is much
more interesting, even though slightly smaller, as is the foreground
foliage. Sky is about the same. The one thing I like better in the
filtered shot is the stronger contrast of the branches of the big tree
against sky and other background
<http://moosemystic.net/Gallery/ToRedorN.htm>.
To me, the results of the red filter are wonderful on shots like #76,
but trickier on shots like #74, where I imagine the wall across the
sluice and the church behind it would be more 'real' and interesting
without the filter.
Just my thoughts.
Moose
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