RichardQ wrote:
This comparison illustrates why I often disliked doing color photography. Strong colors in the wrong places distort the composition. The large red panels under the control console and the tape reader pull the eyes down and away from the main subject stuff. IMHO, you end up looking at the floor. This was often the kind of "bold" color scheme in the 1950s, used by interior designers attempting to enliven offices. RCA wanted to stress their radical new technology, which replaced traditional banks of vacuum tubes with the new solid-state transistors. I'll admit, the IBM computers up to then were high cabinets painted a drab green that looked pretty G.I., but this went a little too far. Anyway, IBM joined this movement, turning into "Big Blue." Back in those days, there was no Internet, so the users had to bring their work tapes to the computer, and needed an appointment because it could only process one customer at a time, See how we've changed?
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p8. Great example and narrative of how "color" sometimes just doesn't enhance the subject message.