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Originally Posted by andyh
Would what you said  really make the dark blue on the ribbon appear white (I know nothing about photography)? |
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It can do, yes. And the logic is that no KSA without a QSA as well.
The advice a far more experienced photographer gave me on the Great War Forum was thus:
The trouble is that the photographic reproduction process in use at the time of the Great War actually alters the relative tonal values of the image. Thus we find dark blues appearing as very light in real Great War photos - e.g. the dark blue Khedive's Star ribbon in my picture of Sgt-Master-Tailor Simpson, which appears almost white.
If you take a modern image of a dark blue medal ribbon and switch it to monochrome, the resulting greyscale image will still appear dark.