Tom Stefanac
EF2
Every picture of a tornado before 1986 seems to look almost scary.
Take Elkhart, IN for example. Sure, that is a dramatic picture but if this was taken with modern film or a digital cam would it have been as scary? Probably not!
This next tornado which I know nothing about looks really mean and scary even though it is just dust and dirt.
The 1981 Cordell tornado is my favorite but it looks so much meaner on 8mm than it probably would on DV.
Even tornadoes in other places look mean, 1946 Windsor ON Tornado. I think it was rated F4.
I think the answer as to why these tornadoes were so scary would almost definitely have to do with optics and lighting. The older film tended to have far more contrast than your eyes naturally did. This combined with B/W coloration and grainy effects as well as possible blurring is probably what makes everything so much more dramatic.
With that in mind I am wondering if anyone can make a tornado picture they like look worse than it really is/was, you know, give it that old scary feel. I would be really interested to see what people could come up with.
I did a test with the 1987 Edmonton tornado. The original image was borrowed from http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~rob/tornado87.htm . Removing the tones and enhancing the contrast made a good deal of difference!
Take Elkhart, IN for example. Sure, that is a dramatic picture but if this was taken with modern film or a digital cam would it have been as scary? Probably not!
This next tornado which I know nothing about looks really mean and scary even though it is just dust and dirt.
The 1981 Cordell tornado is my favorite but it looks so much meaner on 8mm than it probably would on DV.
Even tornadoes in other places look mean, 1946 Windsor ON Tornado. I think it was rated F4.
I think the answer as to why these tornadoes were so scary would almost definitely have to do with optics and lighting. The older film tended to have far more contrast than your eyes naturally did. This combined with B/W coloration and grainy effects as well as possible blurring is probably what makes everything so much more dramatic.
With that in mind I am wondering if anyone can make a tornado picture they like look worse than it really is/was, you know, give it that old scary feel. I would be really interested to see what people could come up with.
I did a test with the 1987 Edmonton tornado. The original image was borrowed from http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~rob/tornado87.htm . Removing the tones and enhancing the contrast made a good deal of difference!
