[Leica] IMG: First photograph made in 2011

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

George Lottermoser offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: First photograph made in 2011
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Hi George,

The first thing that came to mind was.... "that looks like it was shot on 
film?" It has a similar B&W look as I see in most of Steve Barbour's series 
on dementia. A smooth very nice  B&W appearance to them. Not sure if it's me 
when I switch from an M8 colour to B&W frame doing something different?  But 
yours have a smoother look to the whole image..   Do you just switch to grey 
scale in Photoshop as a straight colour removal?

At first I figured it was Steve and his M9 was making a better looking 
screen image.

But yours with an M8 have the same look. Maybe I've been spending too much 
time of late shooting colour rather than "people subjects" and switching to 
B&W? But now I'm in the middle of an 8 week feature series for the weekend 
section of the newspaper on "Beautiful Homes." The first one shot last 
week... like in the neighborhood of 6 - 7 million dollars! The main-room 
looked like you could play a football game it was so big! I'll post a few 
when the series is completed, as it's amazing to see "how the other folks 
live!" :-)

An interesting  point about your ladies photo is, if this were two guys 
they'd probably be watching the football game on the background wall TV. :-)

cheers,
ted