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10/08/2005 08:40:50 AM · #1 |
I have seen on the forum some people say that black and white are not colours (I am british this is how we spell colour) I have looked up in the dictionary the meaning of black and white and they are as follows.
Black:
Being of the colour black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
White:
The achromatic colour of maximum lightness; the colour of objects that reflect nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; the complement or antagonist of black, the other extreme of the neutral gray series. Although typically a response to maximum stimulation of the retina, the perception of white appears always to depend on contrast.
So if what some people say on the forums is true and black and white are not colours what are they? |
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10/08/2005 08:42:48 AM · #2 |
| To me the opposite of a colour photograph is a B&W one, so I don't consider B&W to be colours. |
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10/08/2005 08:43:12 AM · #3 |
In light, they are not color. In paint they are considered a color. Depends on which side of the argument you fall on.
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10/08/2005 08:52:03 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
To me the opposite of a colour photograph is a B&W one, so I don't consider B&W to be colours. |
but a black and white photo is a combination of two hmmmm "colours" isnt it. I used colours because i dont know how else to describe black and white |
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10/08/2005 09:26:59 AM · #5 |
| In art school we're taught that black and white are shades or tints, not colours. |
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10/08/2005 09:44:12 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by polkop:
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
To me the opposite of a colour photograph is a B&W one, so I don't consider B&W to be colours. |
but a black and white photo is a combination of two hmmmm "colours" isnt it. I used colours because i dont know how else to describe black and white |
In photography black is not a colour - it is not anything. It is the lack of light. Colour (or rather, chroma) is a property of light. White light is achromatic, or panchromatic depending how you look at it. Greys are just white with lower lightness. A monochrome image is described as having tones, not colours as colour is generally taken as a synonym for hue in photography.
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10/08/2005 10:46:18 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by idnic:
In art school we're taught that black and white are shades or tints, not colours. |
Ditto.
The only time black and white exist as colours is in the commercial setting ie. buying house paint.
Scientifically they are not colours but the prescence / absences of light.
In the art world they are shades/tints
Even when you print out of your printer black is the existsance and white the non existance of ink. |
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10/08/2005 10:55:18 AM · #8 |
Should we call them chromatically challenged?
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10/08/2005 01:23:34 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by PhilipDyer:
Should we call them chromatically challenged? |
Yeah I like this idea. If black and white are not colours then what do we call them because we can not legitimatly call them colours? |
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