Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Larry, Tthe fact I shot preferably in B&W is not for me a question if the city is colorful, is a personnal choice, sometimes the colors are too much nice and they distract to see the global content of an image, the "problem" I have with digital is that normally I see in B&W but when I see the picture it has attractive colors, sometimes is more dificult for me to discard the colors, but when I keep the B&W image and I've put in the trash the color one, I feel more happy, throught the time I normally think that I've take the good decision. Convert to B&W or edit negatives on B&W takes more time, digital color is quite fast to do, except for the familly pictures my general preference as you say is B&W. As Nathan says, my subjects are also maybe more suitables for B&W, however is a personnal choice, certainly I admire some great photographers that they made the color a creative element in their pictures, Hass, Gibson, Webb, McCurry ...., are the first examples they come to my memmory, on this case, I don't have their genious to create the colors they do. cheers Lluis El 14/04/2011, a las 5:34, Lawrence Zeitlin escribi?: > Lluis, > > I just had the opportunity to watch a TV travelog about Barcelona. > The show > "Globe Trekker" is a British product but is regularly shown on U.S. > Public > TV stations. I've never been to Barcelona but it appears to be a > lovely and > colorful city. I admire your photos of Barcelona scenes but I have a > question. In such a colorful environment why do you usually shoot in > B&W? > You might as well be photographing in much less colorful New York or > in Jim > Shulman's drab Philadelphia. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information