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Deleted scenes from Mad Max: Fury Road, starring "Temp Baby!"

No. How you convert a color image to black and white can have a huge impact on the aesthetic and emotional impact of the finished image. Here’s a random found example of how simply adding a blue filter to the conversion process can dramatically change the look of things (straight desaturated first, then filtered): [image] [image] I’m sure any film director would prefer their chosen colorist to consciously guide that conversion instead of letting luminance values fall where they may. And t…