Monday, December 13, 2010

-2Y +6M

In The New Yorker this week, pg. 89, is this photo of Elia Kazan:


I've heard of seeing the world through rose colored glasses but this is ridiculous. Shouldn't it should look more like this?


Keep the old-school color balance but lose the pink glow. Who's manning the color correction ship over there anyway? Just asking.

5 comments:

  1. Mama don't take my (scanned and poorly adjusted) Kodachrome away

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  2. That would be whatever advertisement needed a M bump that was on the same form as that picture at the press. They only color correct the ads these days because that's where the money comes from.

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  3. How bad is it I prefer the first picture?

    I've always gone a little heavy on the magenta in my editing. Maybe not quite that heavy. But the second photo appears a tad too green to me (mostly in the black of his suit).

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  4. I may have overcompensated for the magenta and added too much green. It's my eco-minded streak.

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  5. Either what anon no.2 said... or the scanner operator lost all sense of judgement through playing with the hipstamatic app on his iPhone too much.

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