Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> wrote: > > I don't buy it. > I agree. If the pathos is in the shot, color will not distract. I've said this before, I guess we say things over and over here, but when I was a kid starting out in photography, color was expensive and/or hard to do, and b/w was cheap and easy. I would save up for some Kodachrome, and I only could shoot maybe two rolls a year. I lived in Germany; in high school I worked cleaning apartment stairwells for my film money. Later I washed dishes at the Officer's club. I still look at some of my BW negatives and wish I had had color for them, because it was such a beautiful place and it fell so damn flat in black and white. So don't give me yer hotsy totsy intellectual stuff, give me color, colour bright shiny chroma! Skin tones! Pink Roses! Red Blood! Green Hills! Red Breasted Robins! Ginger Kittens! Blonde Danish Girls! Yeah man! -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA