Repost:Fleet Air Arm photo for Bert-Jan

"Pjmac35" wrote in
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"Bert-Jan" wrote in message
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"Hub Plott III" wrote in
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Bert-Jan:
It is not a colored B&W Photo but original WWII Color.My notes
(finally found them)state it was an FAA repair depot in the UK.
Hub


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Thanks very much for the repost,

Looking very closely I still think it is a coloured B/W or at least
it's been "helped".
Nevertheless, it's very nicely done and I still think it is VERRRRY
interesting and I'll very gladly add it to my collection of
"harvested- from-the-net-and-groups" pics.

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Cheers,

Bert-Jan

But if someone was "colouring" a B/W original why would they show the
grey on the Seafire and that on the Corsair as so different, or at
least differently weathered? And the gas-detection patch faithfully
rendered in its sort of zinc chromate colour, and the red primer on
the repairs to the starboard wing? Too clever by half, I think!

To me, it certainly has an authentic, genuine look to it, but then
maybe I'm just guillable!

Regards

Pat Macguire




I dont know why, but when you can think of it, the "painter" can also.
I just said it "LOOKS" coloured to me. I could be wrong.

What I think: for instance.

The orange cones in the top right ALL have the same hue of orange.

The ladders on the right are also all the same colour.

The yellow spinner in the background seems too yellow to me. All yellow
spinners are the same yellow.

The skin tone of the guy IN the first plane on the right is very visible
and is the same as the guys in front of the picture, while the guy in front
of said plane is NOT skin tone.

All overalls are the same colour blue.

There is a very unreallistically distinctive boundary between the skin tone
and the blue overalls.

The tarmac and painted "white" lines and colours of the spit seem to be
original black/white. As do the rows of trees in the background.

The green of the vegitation in the front of the picture is the same as
everywhere except in the hills where it is very grey.

The patch of green on the right is just too neatly green.

There is a very distinctive/weird grey/green separation in the trees in the
background.

All in all the colours just seem to be a bit "forced" to me.



But I could be wrong and this does not take away the fact that this is a
very interesting picture.

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Cheers,

Bert-Jan