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 Apr 18, 2011, at 6:28 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > 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. no ! take your amoxicillin Tina, and all will be better soon... saying color is better is like saying, give me a novel or a play... there is no room for poetry.... or... a movie is better than a still photo.... no! sometimes less is more.... ! (my 2c anyway) Steve > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information