I coloured the Burning Monk photo, watcha think? [PIC]

notBrit · 1 year

All puns aside, this is beautiful, terrifying, and extremely moving. I've seen this image hundreds of times, but you have managed to make it affect me as if I'd never seen it before.

ignignokt-_- · 1 year

Still horrific.

defacto_hedonist · 1 year

I'll just leave this here: http://i.imgur.com/AVlO5.gif

mygrapefruit · 1 year

The colors are a bit oversaturated throughout.
Objects should appear bluer and greyer the farther they are from the camera. The green foliage in the background is much too green. The robes of background monks are too orange.
Shaded areas should be much, much bluer than anything lit by daylight. You should add a blue layer and paint in all the shadows, especially ground shadows and the folds in the orange robes.
The fire is a little too red and not enough yellow near the fuel source.
The fire should also cast orange light on the ground and nearby objects. But don't overdo it. The side of the gas can facing the flames should be quite orange, and the car should be getting some of that orange light as well.
Tone down the car color. It grabs too much focus.

That being said, you did an awesome job. This is excellent work.

ME24601 · 1 year

This is extremely well done

mygrapefruit · 1 year

I AM TAKING SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE COLOURIZATIONS HERE!

Original photo for reference, try tabbing to see the difference :)

"The Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself ablaze in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem."

b0dhi · 1 year

"I was to see that sight again, but once was enough. Flames were coming from a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning human flesh; human beings burn surprisingly quickly. Behind me I could hear the sobbing of the Vietnamese who were now gathering. I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think... As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him."

--David Halberstam

"Before closing my eyes and moving towards the vision of the Buddha, I respectfully plead to President Ngo Dinh Diem to take a mind of compassion towards the people of the nation and implement religious equality to maintain the strength of the homeland eternally. I call the venerables, reverends, members of the sangha and the lay Buddhists to organise in solidarity to make sacrifices to protect Buddhism."

--Last words of Thích Quảng Đức

tl-dr; Buddhists define the term "boss"

SookHe · 1 year

Story behind the photo

ProbablyHittingOnYou · 1 year

You did a great job staying within the lines

danielcjtodd · 1 year

Excellent work. If I was to REALLY nit pick for perfection I would:

Show the reflection of the fire on the wet parts of the ground. The tones in the grey image would not have shown the detail but it would have been there. http://www.loupiote.com/photos/26781612.shtml http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/739221A2-2EA6-426C-9762-A6E156C5C515/42-21876379.jpg

Add some illumination from the fire on the ground and the man. It currently looks like two separate elements (a fire and a ground) instead of them being together in the same environment. http://www.moneyfingersinc.com/wp-content/uploads/ablaze.jpg

Add some discolouration to the fire burning the clothes. The same tonal value of grey may not have shown the orange turning brownish as it burns. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/7AdZHI9Bpnk/0.jpg

the smoke has some redness from the fire, but it looks like its all slightly red. Keep the warm tones right next to the flame and then reduce the saturation as it rises. http://www.rendallscleaning.com/images/smoke-damage-restoration.jpg http://www.kevinwilliampang.com/wp-content/uploads/Smoke.jpg

The blue on the car is a little flat (like the whole car was hue saturated to blue). Its missing the subtle colour tones from the reflected environment. The car wont be just shades of blue (like the underside will get a little of the browinsh grey from the road, and the front metal and lights would have pings of orange from the crowd. The chrome trim would also have little hits of orange to really pull the elements together. The colour itself is very bold, and draws the eye away from the point of focus. maybe tone it back a little, but dont flatten the tones. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/3019943673_9be7b201f2.jpg http://www2.2space.net/images/upl_news/101219/1292751003.jpg

the light blue tshirt in the background really drew my eye. maybe adjust the saturations a little as the photo recedes.

The orange clothes are all very even. like they are all new. Give them a little variation of fading and slight orange shifts. It may already be there, but they all look very close. http://www.france24.com/en/files/imagecache/aef_ct_wire_image/images/afp/photo_1272510021560-1-0.jpg

Yes, I realise that my points are really picky, and the colourisation that you have done looks fantastic. (If you hadn't guessed, yes I work in effects)

Overall, great stuff.

supremanade · 1 year

Very well done, but imo it should be slightly less saturated. Also, the flames should lighten the ground around themselves slightly. That would take a bit thinking how to make it though, but now the flames look like they are shopped in it.

daltonmc · 1 year

You should do this next.

FrankReynolds · 1 year

Thích Quảng Đức burns himself to death in protest.

Nowadays, we change our Facebook picture or grow a mustache to support a cause.

What a fucking shame.

greenawlives · 1 year

I know I'm late to this, but I wanted to let you know from me (a layman Buddhist practitioner) that I really appreciate the work you put into this. The hours upon hours that you put into this image really shows.

I also wanted to let you know that I practice under a Buddhist monk who comes from the same lineage as Thich Quang Duc. As a matter of fact, my Dharma name shares the same surname. So, in other words, we are from the same Buddhist family.

I'm going to forward this to my temple's master. I think he would appreciate seeing that someone still remembers his brother's sacrifice.

[deleted] · 1 year

When Michael Jackson died he took pop with him. When Elvis died he took rock and roll with him. When that monk died he took the balls it takes to fight status quo with him.

wineandcheese · 1 year

I just wanted to add a "good job" comment. This really is incredible. Bravo.

BrightonGoose · 1 year

How did you decide upon the colour of things? The car, background clothes etc

smplejohn · 1 year

The orange/blue contrast reigns true still.

reference: http://i.imgur.com/c2o4J.jpg

1wntr · 1 year

My history Professor used the black and white version in a lecture. I felt obliged to send her the link to your pic/post. This is how she replied.

"wild and horrifying. thanks for sharing it though. I am glad the photo stuck in your mind. It always shakes me up to show it, and Im not sure what students make of it. It's a complicated image, a complicated circumstance. It's nearly impossible for me to imagine doing or even supporting such an act, and I think someone doing it here today would be dismissed as crazy. But in the context of the time (and the context Buddhism and of 1960s Vietnam) I think it made more sense."

monkey804 · 1 year

I showed it to my dad and he pointed out where he was in the crowd. Saw some sadness in his eyes.

Drexx · 1 year

Wow, nice job! What did you use to do this? Just curious.

subterraneanzen · 1 year

I'm suprised no one has mentioned the video footage of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr5S3b2j-lw

Stephen9o3 · 1 year

What's the story behind this?

ThisOpenFist · 1 year

The traffic light in the background is still in black & white.

Oops.

Edit: If you look closely at the entire photo, there are some other small details that weren't colored.

szymonszaman · 1 year

Eh, this blue and orange contrast is now everywhere! ಠ_ಠ

cyclopath · 1 year

I respect your artistic talent and your Photoshop image manipulation skill.

Edit: After tabbing the original and the colorized versions and recognizing how much work/time this must've taken, I have to ask you one question: Why?

rolfedh · 1 year

The colors are striking at first, particularly the flames, increasing the impact of the "bonzo" = a Buddhist monk self immolating in protest. Then gradually, un-natural aspects of the coloration become distracting and take away from the content. Patches of blue on the asphalt foreground. The uniformity of the orange in the robes. The impossible brightness of the car. The photo and the color hides or distracts you from truth. Who among you knows correctly what he was protesting and when?

reply · 1 year

Reddit supports the monk's socio-political viewpoint.

[deleted] · 1 year

I like it, but I think the bright color of the car brings too much attention to it, distracting from the real subject of the photo.

[deleted] · 1 year

My father served in Viet Nam. He has an almost identical picture to this classic. I thought he had been present and took his picture from a few feet away as the photos looked very similar. My father has many pictures leading up to, during and after the burning. The after pics are pretty grisly. He told me that the burning he attended was another monk and that the monks in Vietnam at the time were setting themselves on fire it seemed, almost every week. The government was so repressive that the monks were protesting by setting themselves ablaze. This was the beginning of the end for the regime and one of the many reasons the US supported Diem's assasination--everyone hated him.

Dukksoup · 1 year

That's hot.

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