Selective Color - 2 cannons at sunrise:

[calr]

My first thought was not they were cartoonish but rather plastic toys! It is interesting that they would stain or paint the wheels and supports in that garish color. Is there something historic about the color?

Cal

[Calicajun]

The bright orange color of the wheels gave me the feeling of early morning, just before the battles rush.

[Chato]

Originally Posted by Calicajun

The bright orange color of the wheels gave me the feeling of early morning, just before the battles rush.

Did you notice the orange tint on the canons? Sheesh, how the hell did he do that?

Dave

[Calicajun]

Originally Posted by Chato

Did you notice the orange tint on the canons? Shush, how the hell did he do that?

Dave

Yes and meant to comment on that as well but forgot. That was the biggest part the made it feel like morning to me.

[Walter_S]

Hey, Bynx - You are a master with pp!

Hilarious and funny that one:




I like it, but I'm not entirely sure if I'v spelled that difficult word (hilar...something?) right...

[Walter_S]

Originally Posted by calr

...that they would stain or paint the wheels and supports in that garish color. Is there something historic about the color?
Cal

Nothing that I'm aware of, but then soldiers in those days didn't exacly wear combat-uniform neither - did they? They wore brightely colored uniforms like bright red and blue or yellow, that stood out well from the surroundings. I guess that was the case with their guns as well. Why hide it if it could intimidate their enemies?

The "garish" (don't even know what that means...) color, as you call it, is an earthen red.
In those days, the most common paint-colors where earthen colors (produced from sediments found here) like oker (a greenish earthen yellow) and this oxide-red. The cannons are in fact painted in oxide-red, but tinted slightly by the rising sun.

Originally Posted by Chato

...the orange tint on the canons?

Well, Chato - if you get up early enough, one get's to see this orange tint quite often, its called a SUNRISE!

Originally Posted by Calicajun

... made it feel like morning to me.

You are perfectly right - it was early in the morning! As you can see:


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[smac]

Originally Posted by Bynx

Ya, especially a war led by the Warner Bros.

Perfect! Now your have a picture. That's great. Thanks for the morning laugh.

BTW, your original submission was very interesting the way it was. I liked it very much.
Steve

[Chato]

Originally Posted by Walter_S

Well, Chato - if you get up early enough, one get's to see this orange tint quite often, its called a SUNRISE!

I suddenly figured it out. The "black" of the canon is actually color, thus the capture of the orange tint (which is a reflection of the wheels on the black metal). I was wondering how you allowed the tint to look so natural, and now I realise the black is RGB...

Dave

[Walter_S]

Originally Posted by Chato

...which is a reflection of the wheels on the black metal

No, Dave - its the other way round. The reflection is that of the morning-sun. Check out the trunk on that birch-tree - same colors there, and in some of the clouds.
It had been a very cold night, so the cannon-barrels where actually freezing cold, I guess with frost from the humid air. That caused the reflections.



This is the colors of the cannons in daylight - so you see they are more red (oxide-red) than orange - it's the morning sun playing tricks with you....