Posts by Tom Ackroyd
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to JacksonP,
Boatshed, Pauatahanui inlet, May 2007.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Morgan Nichol,
Black & white in the age of digital seems more like an easy way to hide your failures, than the film era demonstration of talent for capturing light & shadow.
Some of Jonathan & Robyn & Jackson's pictures in that original post were shot on black & white film.
Digital photographers don’t have the option to shoot true black & white, because their cameras all use colour sensors. My camera has a “black & white” mode, but this works by de-saturating an original colour image. After that you have no control in post-processing.
If I want a digital photo to be black & white, having the original in colour is a good thing, because after desaturating it you can still adjust the original colour balance to give the effect of using colour filters on a black & white film shoot. This is not to cover up “mistakes” because I have no option but to take a colour image. -
Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Aidan,
I don't know, but Erbium is the only one that has COLOURED DOTS.
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I took this photo of a knitted Periodic Table being pieced together a few weeks ago at Holland Road Yarn Company in Petone. Here is its Facebook page. It went up yesterday at the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Conference in Hamilton.
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Jackson - I didn't even know there was a competition! So this was even more of a nice surprise. Thanks! Robyn - ta, too. It was a relaxed and unfussy evening. They were a good tag team on the decks. And I discovered Grayson Gilmour.
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Thanks all. While I was there I showed Roger this post. Am hoping he may like to contribute.
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Richard Langston & Roger Shepherd playing Flying Nun tunes old and new at Happy in Wellington tonight.
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Cue comments on food sites eg: "Kids! Don't forget to eat your greens today!"
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I remember those. The kind of advertising that mugs you.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Those YouTube clips: the second one is an horrific hijack of a 1999 Saatchi spot for Adidas, which had the end line “Forever Sport”. The third is plainly, er, “user content”.
