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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Elderly man - re Teds advice
From: gerry.walden at me.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:13:15 +0100
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Ted

Thanks for commenting, and you are/were absolutely right. I had already done 
a b&w conversion and tussled as to which was better so I have now uploaded 
both the LUG gallery. You can see the HDR at:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gwpics/03-0342.jpg.html

and the b&w is sitting right next to it. Maybe other opinions could be given 
- which is the prefered option? For me they are both joint first.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
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+44 (0)797 287 7932
www.gwpics.com

On 21 Apr 2012, at 17:08, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:

> Gerry Walden SHOWED:
> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Elderly man
> 
> 
>> I shot this in Italy nearly nine years ago on the first digital camera I 
>> ever used, a Fuji S2Pro. One of the great things I love about digital is 
>> you can revist an image and produce a totally different vision of the 
>> original and I have reworked the image using LR4 and a pseudo-HDR plug-in:
>> 
>> http://gerrywalden.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Italy-The-Italians/G00007In8gWq63I0/I00004S9_fbphFtg
> 
> Hi Gerry,
> Have you tried converting this to B&W?  It's the kind of street scene that 
> might just have a stronger? Harsher look of a tired elderly man message in 
> B&W? Maybe? But it' sort of has enough going for it for a try.
> 
> Even though I like the colour very much it seems a street scene for B&W? 
> Maybe??????????
> 
> And given these days and computer-Photoshop it's merely a "click away!" 
> ;-) One of the reasons I like using Photoshop is for this reason. Seeing a 
> photo in both mediums!
> 
> Besides, as you well know. A photograph with strength in both B&W & colour 
> is the mark of a photograph that's sometimes a smashing great photo! Of 
> course one must look first. ;-)
> 
> The one thing it illustrates is just how I have been feeling this past few 
> weeks, always looking for a place to sit as my drive to get on with things 
> and life seems ebbing away to some kind of worthlessness ! :-(
> 
> cheers,
> ted
> 
> cheers,
> ted 
> 
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