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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Ruby, Color and B&W
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 06:42:56 +0900
References: <CA+yJO1DUxbXT8xB_kpb4hiCcNKdwiTVdCZUzq7rtxoX+SPuFqw@mail.gmail.com> <1237DE0D-3DCE-4DB0-A4A0-F63CAB988AC8@icloud.com> <CA+yJO1Cb1qKdj4ANPDTe2LXnwhdKOx0Ot_yRtrvaDr1Ex3YX7g@mail.gmail.com>

I too prefer the B&W, but I have a feeling that the conversion is not quite 
right. It looks a bit flat to me. I imagine that Provia 400 is not easy to 
convert well.

Cheers,
Nathan

On 6 Dec 2013, at 00:34, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> Thank you, George.  I agree with our POTUS about the most important issue
> of our time.  I am afraid for our country if we don't do something to solve
> it now,
> 
> Tina
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:05 AM, George Lottermoser <
> george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 3, 2013, at 5:29 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>> 
>>> Only one comment on the B&W Ruby so I'm posting the color one, too.   Two
>>> cameras, two lenses, two films:
>>> 
>>> B&W:  http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/153623647
>>> 
>>> Color:  http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/153633093
>>> 
>>> Both M6's, one 35 Summilux with TMax 400, one Noctilux with Fuji Provia
>> 400.
>>> 
>>> Comments and criticisms are gratefully accepted.
>> 
>> I sometimes find it difficult to "comment" on powerfully disturbing
>> photographs.
>> This image in particular reminded me of the work I did for "Light on
>> Poverty in Appalachia."
>> 
>> <http://imagist.com/photo/images/family_01.jpg>
>> <http://imagist.com/photo/images/family_01_02.jpg>
>> 
>> I was also able to gain access to the "private" rooms of fellow human
>> beings
>> existing at the unhealthy, absolute bottom of our socio/economic system;
>> abandoned by the coal mining industry when veins ran thin and strip mining
>> replaced the miners.
>> 
>> 40 years after doing that work I still tear up thinking about those
>> people's conditions.
>> 
>> Interesting that our POTUS is talking, this week, about income inequality
>> as the most important issue of time
>> 
>> In terms of your color vs B&W versions of this photograph
>> I find the color version garish and quite unnatural;
>> so I prefer the black and white
>> 
>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser
>> george at imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley
> http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com
> 
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