Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jayanand, Right!, your country is powerful in color and this is a logical temptation, but I remember many great pictures of India from great masters as HCB, Sabine Weiss, Bischoff, Marc Riboud that B&W give a special light and atmosphere, except Bischoff's famous portarit of a poor woman the other mentionned was not particularly shooting poverty, IMO there is an abuse of these kind of shots. I think that when I go to India I'll prefer shot manly in B&W cheers Lluis El 16/04/2011, a las 3:53, Jayanand Govindaraj escribi?: > Ric, > I agree with you - this is totally personal preference, maybe aided > by a > little elitism - because with the advent of digital, colour > photographs are > so easy to take, so what used to exceedingly rare and expensive when I > started to photograph is now the norm. I predominantly see in > colour, I > think mainly because I live in a very colourful environment, B&W is > a rarer > pleasure. The main reason I started taking part in B&W print > exchanges is to > hone this skill. Most B&W shots of India are of poverty, where the > dust and > grime translate well into monochrome - when any other aspect of the > country > is to be shown, it is invariably in colour. > > George, > I take your point about the graphic arts, but what we consider the > pinnacle > of the artist's talent is always in the colour medium - oils, > watercolour or > nowadays, increasingly acrylic. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> > wrote: > >> When personal preference is the topic, there is no right and wrong >> My world is in color >> sometimes i see it monochrome >> >> ric >> >> On Apr 15, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Bill Pearce wrote: >> >>> If I were to express myself freely, it would probably result in my >>> being >> banned from the internet. To put things simply, I am not pleased >> with the >> far too common feeling that only B&W photos have value. Larry's >> writing >> makes more sense than I could and is far more precise and less >> profane that >> I would put things, but anyway, GO, LARRY! >>> >>> Bill Pearce >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information