Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I came back from Columbia with strep throat that I caught from my grandson. My daughter picked 16 of the 1120 photos I took of the delivery that she deems suitable for publication. They are putting siding on the house and I'm about to lose the internet for several hours. And now everybody disagrees with me about B&W. I am not a happy camper today!! Tina On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com