[pure-silver] Re: not so pure silver

Richard-
How do you feel about "spot color"? There is a war movie in black & white (I'm thinking "Schindler's List"?) where there is a scene of a little girl walking down the street wearing a red coat. That red coat is the only color in the film. I relate this back to the group's topic by means of portraits with spot color; example a subject holding a flower, all in B&W with the flower in color. Personally, I think this technique can be easily overdone. I've seen senior portraits where only the eyes were in color or a prop was in color. 
Ken Hart
I was thinking that one way of dealing with the color negatives and positives would be to desaturate them a lot, leaving only a hint of color, and print them digitally. This would be sort of like spot color.
The movies that I cited were sort of documentaries: Shine a Light was about the Rolling Stones, and the concert part was in color whereas the backstage stuff about the making of the documentary was in black and white. I'm Not There was a pseudo -documentary about Bob Dylan, and it alternated color and black and white as if it were a real documentary. The other example of that was Chicago 10, where not only did they have color and black and white documentary footage; they also had animation! All mixed up together! The other night I saw a documentary about Fellini that also had both black and white and color. Once can understand why a person assembling a documentary film might use both black and white and color footage. So, if you see your project as documentary, it might be valid to use both.
The Holga pans have some of the characteristics of film, people have said. If you can see three frames, they were shot sequentially, left to right. It tells a little story: this happened, then this, then this. So you could make a case that they are sort of proto-cinematic. 

--shannon

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