> On Saturday, April 26, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Pat Kelly wrote:
> > An interesting discussion, esp about red & black. If one is
> > changing
> > photos from color to black and white, often red turns into black,
> > unless it
> > is a lighter shaded red. I think shades/contrast of colors has a lot
> > to do
> > with their readability, light & dark.
>
> That should depend on how you do it; if you shoot with a red/orange
> filter then the red should show up very light; if you shoot with a blue
> or green filter it will turn out darker, if not completely black. Then
> there are the electronic versions of the same conversion (if your
> graphics program allows it, take a look at the individual channels; the
> difference between the red/blue/green channels can be striking,
> depending on the subject and the colors involved.
Unless you are wearing glasses with those filters, the filter suggestion is
irrelevant when discussing color contrast as seen by a timer or course
worker. Pat's photo example is an example of how colors work, not on how to
shoot pictures.
--Rocky
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