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Subject: [Leica] [PAW] IMG: Flower Girls
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:10:02 -0800
References: <20121126170949.SVSX6475.eastrmfepo202.cox.net@eastrmimpo305>

On Nov 26, 2012, at 9:09 AM, jon.streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net> wrote:

> I'm glad some have pinned down which is better, color or b&w.  I've been 
> at this since childhood, and I can't see how it's possible to choose.  I 
> do some of my digital files in both, and the closest I can come to a 
> ruling on the issue is that both look good and one is in color and the 
> other is in black and white.   The color ones have better color.  The 
> black-and-white ones emphasize shape and texture, etc.  
> 
> Wouldn't a color portrait of Lincoln or color photographs of the Civil War 
> era be fun to stumble across? And, again, how many of us have walked out 
> of the Getty Museum, shaking our heads and saying, Well, those were nice 
> paintings, but they'd have been better in black and white?  And yet when I 
> think of my favorite photographs, mine and others', almost all of my 
> favorites are in b&w.
> I love the color aspect of Tina's photographs.   And when I see her b&w 
> photographs of the same culture, I love those too.


me too...   but



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> From: "Steve Barbour" <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Leica] [PAW] IMG: Flower Girls
> Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2012 8:40 am
> 
> 
> On Nov 16, 2012, at 7:06 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:
> 
>> PESO:
>> 
>> Don't have my targets yet, but couldn't resist posting one I had already
>> scanned.  This one is Provia 100:
>> 
>> http://www.pbase.com/image/147349990
> 
> 
> 
> I am going to try this out, but I expect some resistance...   :-)
> 
> I suspect that some of these, eg this one may be better in bw,   I know 
> that color is important, but with the color, "it's all about color".
> 
> Showing these images in bw would focus on your exquisite capture of the 
> children, being as they are, wonderful faces, postures, interaction.
> 
> So succumbing to the idea that color requires color, creates sameness, and 
> robs the photos of the features that make each capture different and quite 
> beautiful.
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> C&C?
>> 
>> Tina
>> 
>> -- 
>> Tina Manley, ASMP
>> www.tinamanley.com
> 
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