Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting. I don't know that I necessarily disagree. I'm genetically partial to bw, I think, but I like the muted colors...I did do a multiply layer on the background, darkening the yellow chair considerably as it was distracting - did the same thing in the bw version. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Douglas M. Sharp Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 8:42 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Speaking of color and BW Personally I prefer the cloured version, probably due to the fact that the colours are in monochromatic blocks without any disturbing patterns in the main subject. If the girls dress had been strongly patterned and your sons sweatshirt, say, a bright red this would IMO have distracted away from the faces and made the BW version the better one. Douglas The german language has a nice way of distinguishing colour schemes "bunt" meaning bright, brash, hectic colours (what used to be said of the first Fuji films) and "Farbig" showing the true colours in a decent tonal distribution. The expressions Buntbilder and Farbbilder adequately and easily describe the difference. B. D. Colen schrieb: >I just posted four new images at >http://gallery.leica-users.org/BDCOLENPHOTOS >The first two, of my younger son and his girl friend, were shot as bw >with the C8080 - the third and fourth, of older son and his girl >friend, are the same photo, first as shot in color - 800 asa, with E-1, >and then converted to bw using the FredMiranda action. Both the color >and BW version were adjusted similarly in Photoshop. So does color add, >or distract? We give you the images - you decide! :-) > >B. D. > > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information