Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 4, 2011, at 10:31 AM, R. Clayton McKee wrote: > > --- On Tue, 1/4/11, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I don't think this is true George....clearly color should >> be used, "if it's about color" but "if the image depends on >> color (only) to make its impact, then it's largely lost"... >> >> >> is this not basically correct? If it's not correct, >> why? > > Because aside from a personal aesthetic choice by the photographer, > there's no longer any reason why the default for an image SHOULD be B&W. I agree, in fact, why should the default be color, OR why have a default ? > > The majority of the population DOES see color, and in terms of publication > the B&W image was most likely initially captured as a color version. So > there's absolutely no reason to consider the use of color as anything > except another tool in the photographic box. ***so if color is another tool, (a concept with which I can easily agree), then it may be used if it adds power/meaning/something to the image, or not used if it detracts from the image... which is what many of us subscribe to... > > > Every week we see dozen of photographs come through the saloon... ordinary > photographs of ordinary people doing ordinary things, elevated to the > status of extraordinary because the person behind the camera was able to > use the light, or the contrast, or the composition of the photo, or the > HDR capability of digital imaging, to make those shots into something more. > Probably 95% of those shots, if we took away the tool upon which they > depend for their impact, would not be worth a first look, never mind a > second. > > Why is it any LESS legitimate to allow the use of color as simply another > of those tools for creating effective photos? yes...above*** so we agree, Steve > > > R. Clayton McKee > PhotoJournalist > from somewhere just south of somewhere else... > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information