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 Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:59 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Steve Barbour wrote: > > > saying color is better is like saying, give me a novel or a play... > > there is no room for poetry.... > Well, if you are thinking I said that color is better, you missed my point. To me, b/w was always the easy, cheap way. Of course, as George points out, technology has changed that. Do I like Color or Monochrome more? It depends on the picture. The things I like to shoot are colorful, so I shoot color. That said; I *BELIEVE* that a photographer does *best* when one takes *one* camera,*one * lens and *one* emulsion, and shoots until everything about it is automatic, so much so that you do not even think about anything but the image. (That translates to setting your M9 or M8 or Brownie Hawkeye to whatever and not changing anything.) That is why Bresson, Doisneau and Salgado (plus so many others) are/were so consistent with their work. It has nothing to do with B/W or color, it has everything to do with getting to the point that there is only one variable, and that is the image before you. -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA