{"id":774,"date":"2005-12-17T10:11:33","date_gmt":"2005-12-17T18:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=774"},"modified":"2006-01-19T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T00:49:49","slug":"black-and-white-vs-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/12\/17\/black-and-white-vs-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Black and White Vs Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike,<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at APOD (below) and compare it with the original Adams picture Link (below that)..Even if you convert the color picture to B&#038;W and fiddle with the overall contrast, gamma, andbrightness, you can never get that magical glow of light above the mountains that Adams somehow created.  And the contrast in the mountains where the snowfields and glaciers were is just incredible. (Admitedly therewas more snow in 1948 than now.)<\/p>\n<p>Ansel must have dodged the moon in the darkroom to make it so bright relative to the mountains. Nothing like a comparison of amateurs and professionals to show the difference between them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap051215.html\">Amateurs<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"encoreAdams.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/encoreAdams.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"183\" \/><br \/>\n<a>http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4848982&#8243;>Ansel&#8217;s<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ansel_version.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/ansel_version.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p>-rakkity&#8211;Just another amateur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike, Have a look at APOD (below) and compare it with the original Adams picture Link (below that)..Even if you convert the color picture to B&#038;W and fiddle with the overall contrast, gamma, andbrightness, you can never get that magical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/12\/17\/black-and-white-vs-color\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rakkity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}