[WWI] "Accurate colours"

[rob]

How does Bob Pearson decide on his colours for the wonderful profiles he does?

Has anyone asked him?

rob


Ray Boorman wrote:
> Lol, Mike if you get that software I bet it says Voss's cowl was both
> yellow or no no, maybe  it was green. With a 50% probability of
> either. Now was that deep yellow or pale yellow. Or was the green more
> olive or bright green ;)
> 
> On a different  note, there is a documentary showing on TVO up here in
> Toronto thats a multi part series on the first world war. Last week it
> covered the German Navy. With the blockade on all supplies that
> Germany was under by 1915 they had real problems with riots etc for
> food as early as 1916. Which if you think about it, if food was in as
> short supply as early as that, then most other things would be as
> well. Therefore I wonder just how well regulations on paints and
> doping practices were followed. When you start to get into accuracy on
> colours, equipment or even uniforms. Common sense says they probably
> attempted to keep things close but getting aircraft into the field and
> keeping them flying was much more the priority than being super
> accurate on colours. Same would go for the RNAS and RFC.
> 
> Ray
> 
> On 6/6/07, michael wuyek <mawuyek at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I'm almost sure one day there will be a computer program that can tell
>> wether a film is orthochromatic or panchromatic and based on known 
>> colours,
>> give us a true colour photos from black and white photos...Maybe..That 
>> would
>> be something!! It'll probably look like Ted Turner's early attempts to
>> colourize those Laurel and Hardy and other films..
>>
>> Mike
>>
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