It is said that color is the language of nature. So with all due respect to great B&W photographers like Ansel Adams and John Setton, among others, who produced some of the loveliest nature shots in monochrome, I am attempting to bring back the ciolors to what they must have seen with their eyes prior clicking the camera shutter button.
Here is my colorized Ansel Adams photo of his 1942 print of a Driftwood from the Mural Project 1941-1942, Jackson Lake and Teton Range in background.
Ansel Adams photos are so well detailed that they lend themselves nicely to colorization. Kodachrome color film was already widely used during his time but accdg to his son Michael, he confessed he did not have the control he needed to really capture the colors of reality as he saw it. Despite taking over 3,500 color photos, Ansel considered color photography as still immature. B&W films gave him more control and accdg to his son, Ansel would have loved using post-production Adobe Photoshop to correct colors, contrast and other elements in a color photo. That would be in the province of colorization as well. AA died in 1984 when digital photography was yet unheard of.
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