I was working on an image taken last year during a raging spring snow storm up on Trail Ridge Road, and was intrigued by how this color image looked absolutely monochromatic it looked. I tried a b&w conversion, and clicking the preview button on and off, I could barely tell the difference, so I left it as color.
Now, perhaps owing to the fact that I got third row tickets this afternoon for a concert by two-thirds of one of my all-time fave '70s bands, Emerson, Lake and Palmer (E and L, but sadly, no P), or maybe because I've got Jethro Tull's 1972 masterpiece, "Thick as a Brick," blasting through iTunes right now, I decided to add a saturation layer and crank it up to 11 -- er, I mean, 100%. This is the crazy result. I was shocked that there's enough color hidden in the depths of this image to produce a result like that. The original is so devoid of color info that I was able to keep it under the max 200kb file size at a setting of 83 in CS3. The color version required a setting of 50!
Lucky you to be able to see that show!
One of my favorite albums back in the day was 'Pictures at an Exhibition', even though critics called it "loud, noisy, pompous, pretentious, self-important, self-indulgent and sacrilegious with a helping of grandiloquence on the side and silliness to taste".
Ah, what do they know? They would probably say the same about your experiment with #2!
Posted by Kalin Wilson on March 9, 2010 at 8:40 PM
The saturated color is pretty wild. I'm envious about the concert!
John, I'm listening to "Pictures..." RIGHT NOW!!! It was my intro to them as a teenager, and along with Yes, they defined my musical youth. Gee, I wonder why I turned out so artsy-fartsy! (The drugs helped...) I haven't heard "Pictures..." in years, maybe even decades, but after getting tix today, I realized I hadn't yet imported it to my iTunes account. I didn't even have "Brain Salad Surgery" on there! Had the self-titled debut, "Tarkus" and "Trilogy," but not them, or even "Emerson, Lake & Powell." It's all on there now! \m/@@\m/
As for the critics, my follow-up response to that would be, "So, what's your point?" We prog rockers learned a long time ago that we enjoy a form of music "critics" can't grasp.
Posted by George Hager on March 9, 2010 at 9:42 PM
Now, let's all be nice to Todd. It's obvious he's been licking the glue off his book bindings again.
ELP, pretty cool, I've got there first album on vinyl and CD. Tickets to the show---you are a Lucky Man! Where is the show? Cool effect on the pics by the way, I think I prefer the 2nd one.
Whoa, that's a total trip, maaaaaan. The shnozberries taste like shnozberries.
Posted by Brian Jackson on March 9, 2010 at 10:28 PM
That will get your attention.
Posted by Todd Caudle on March 9, 2010 at 10:50 PM
For ELP fans: The show is at Pikes Peak Center. It's an "unplugged" show where Lake and Emerson will be playing tunes from their ELP, King Crimson and The Nice days, and talking about some of the stories and inspiration behind the songs. Too damn good to pass up! Tix go on sale tomorrow (I think), but you can use the pre-sale code LUCKYMAN to buy today. There are still excellent seats available through the presale.
It's an "unplugged" show where Lake and Emerson will be playing tunes from their ELP, King Crimson and The Nice days,
That's even better!! A 'Storytellers' type show. Oh, how I envy you.
And I was also a huge fan of Yes.
We were the ones targeted by Johnny Rotten, et. al. Anyone listen to them anymore?!
Posted by Todd Caudle on March 9, 2010 at 11:05 PM
Believe it or not, I noticed just yesterday that Public Image Ltd. (w/John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) is playing in Denver sometime soon. Saw them once before, but that's when I was getting paid to review/photograph concerts for a living.
Posted by Brent Murphy on March 10, 2010 at 10:27 AM
How can ELP play an unplugged show? I mean, a Moog doesn't really do much when it's unplugged, right?
Posted by Todd Caudle on March 10, 2010 at 12:02 PM
They told me in the 60's that stuff could flash back at any time. Like the good old days when I saw Tull in concert in Vancouver BC. At least I think I did. Can't really remember.
Far out! EL should be great - there's a lot of tremendous music out there for the seekers these days. I hope for your sake they play as long as LW did the other night! (Lesh/Weir) I'm downloading the FLAQ format of the 3/6 show right now and can hardly wait to re-listen to Dark Star>Time>Dark Star!
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One of my favorite albums back in the day was 'Pictures at an Exhibition', even though critics called it "loud, noisy, pompous, pretentious, self-important, self-indulgent and sacrilegious with a helping of grandiloquence on the side and silliness to taste".
Ah, what do they know? They would probably say the same about your experiment with #2!
As for the critics, my follow-up response to that would be, "So, what's your point?" We prog rockers learned a long time ago that we enjoy a form of music "critics" can't grasp.
That is wild for sure. Also, the first one is outstanding!
And I was also a huge fan of Yes.
We were the ones targeted by Johnny Rotten, et. al. Anyone listen to them anymore?!