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Subject: [Leica] B/w or colour portrait
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:26:39 -0500 (EST)
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Thanks for the comment. We needed to make some of the images b/w due to the 
low
low low light these Gorillas inhabit. Meaning of course that we have rather
underexposed noisy images which are 'rescued' in b/w.

Cheers

Alastair
> On March 20, 2014 at 10:22 PM Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>
> The unanswerable eternal question here of course. I can comment that the
> colour provides better separation from the background and second animal in
> front.
> I can say that I 'prefer' the colour image as a more effective
> environmental portrait.
>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
> On 21 March 2014 12:05, afirkin <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote:
>
> > Working on some of the images: this one a portrait of the 'second'
> > silverback in
> > the group (though most think he is now leading the family as the
> > older/larger
> > gorilla is now very old) who later brushed by my left arm. Being that
> > close to
> > 220kgs of muscle is pretty exciting: view the images large to get some of
> > that
> > feeling.
> >
> > The question is B/w or colour
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/ldc7ra2
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/m7tr4fk
> >
> >
> > Cheers and here's luck
> >
> > Alastair
> >
> >
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