A stern test!!

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

I hear they can Tan in the Fog too.

Confronted by a spell of sizzling weather, we British shift very quickly through four distinct psychological states. I call them suspicion, immersion, irritation and revulsion. Suspicion, the first phase, seems to be hard-wired into us. Our weather is generally so unsettled that we instinctively regard any burst of sunshine as a flash in the pan... When last week’s heatwave started I was amazed by the number of people still perspiring in jackets on the Tube. After the first day or two, however, the truth dawns. It becomes clear that we are in for that rarest of British phenomena: prolonged hot weather. That’s when immersion kicks in. Our famed reserve cracks, to be replaced by sun-frenzy. City parks and squares become seas of roasting flesh... But then comes irritation. How much sleep can you miss anyway? Shouldn’t you be working instead of lying in a park getting burnt? Isn’t the smog suffocating? And if it doesn’t rain soon, what’s going to happen to the garden? So finally there is revulsion. People start to hate the sun.
I refer, of course, to Britain’s scorching s ummer of 1976 — when, from June 23 to August 29, the thermometer hardly fell below 80 and was often in the nineties. The effect was astonishing. It was too hot to sleep at night and too exhausting to walk, talk or (especially) work during the day. Nerves frayed. Tempers snapped like twigs. Railway carriages were like ovens; the Tube a scene out of Dante’s Inferno. Cultural and social life ceased; people just couldn’t summon the energy. And all those national traits that we hold so dear — fair play, humour, tolerance, compromise — evaporated faster than water in the reservoirs. Our mental and spiritual equilibrium depends on our isles being wrapped in the perpetual twilight of a perpetual autumn. A stiff breeze, rain in the air, dark clouds gathering, the delicious forecast of unsettled weather for weeks to come: that is what fuels our sense of irony, moderates our moods and preserves our sanity.
- Richard Morrison, "Global Warming Is Not For Us", "The Times"

[Rhodes]

I had used both, since a good photo-journalist allways carries two bodies cameras! One with a kodachrome and other with ilford pan F!

[FIREWALL]

Is there any truth to the 6 toes rumor ?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

Is there any truth to the 6 toes rumor ?

Most definitely

[Task Force]

I knew there was something strange about you brits. lol

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Task Force

I knew there was something strange about you brits. lol

[sharkbit]

Originally Posted by Rhodes

I had used both, since a good photo-journalist allways carries two bodies cameras! One with a kodachrome and other with ilford pan F!

That's so 20th century.
Get with the times and use a digital camera. Then all you have to worry about is what lens to use. Then you can go back to the office and use Photoshop and try both B&W and color and tweek the lighting, contrast, colors and such.

[von hally]

i would save him...only long enough for him to tell me where his predecessor is!!....so i could let them go under together!!!!!

the real numbskull is swaning around the globe making fortunes from speaking parties....nob

[XabbaRus]

I'd shoot in colour then photoshop it later to see how it looked in black and white. Maybe add some fictional elements to add to the drama, maybe a puppy dog in his arms that already happened to be on the sure at the time thus having him go down as

"Brown!!! Sacrifices life for a dog - and no we don't mean his wife!!!"

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

I'd shoot in colour then photoshop it later to see how it looked in black and white. Maybe add some fictional elements to add to the drama, maybe a puppy dog in his arms that already happened to be on the sure at the time thus having him go down as

"Brown!!! Sacrifices life for a dog - and no we don't mean his wife!!!"

lol... dies for a dog...

I would film it in color and see what it looks like in black & white also.... maby even try to add bush into it... have him go for a swim.:rotfl:

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted by sharkbit

That's so 20th century.
Get with the times and use a digital camera. Then all you have to worry about is what lens to use. Then you can go back to the office and use Photoshop and try both B&W and color and tweek the lighting, contrast, colors and such.

(only slr with zoom lenses)

Digital, what's that?

Film exists? I thought we forgot how to make that. :rotfl:

[TheBrauerHour]

Use color. Then go home and convert to B/W if needed for effect. That was you get the best of both worlds.

Funny thread btw.