Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]+1! Tina On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 12:04 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote: > You know the obvious answer Gerry........ I usually leave the house with a > Monochrom as well as my M(240) ;-) I agree with what you say and rarely > take the same shot with both cameras as each have their strengths. > > john > > -----Original Message----- > > I am sorry to come back on this, but I believe that the photographer > should make a decision by pre-visualisation of how the final image should > look. Although this may may be a split-second decision based on intuition > and experience that decision is important. If you shoot in b&w you shoot > for the composition of light and dark, highlights and shadows whereas if > you shoot in colour you shoot for the interplay of the colours of the image > and the way the balance together. This is a decision that cannot be > realistically made afterwards as the two images/decisions are different. If > you make the dcision afterwards it will never be as good as the > pre-visualisation that should have been done before. > > Gerry > > > On 2 Jan 2017, at 13:46, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote: > > > > Ever since I switched to digital I have had problems with some images > deciding whether it is a ?colour? image or a ?mono? image. It was easier in > my opinion when you carried two cameras, and you made the decision at the > point of pressing the button, and then you had decided. It was a decision > made at that moment, in that mood, at (to quote HC-B) the point when the > heart, the eye and the mind come together. There is no better time to > decide because never again will those three factors coincide. I am afraid > that the decision on which of these two images is purely yours to make > because neither is better or worse than the other. > > > > I wish you luck with your decision, > > > > Gerry > > > >> On 2 Jan 2017, at 01:51, lluisripollphotography < > lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> The Day I went to shoot ?Giving Smiles? I?ve carried the M9, it poses > sometimes a problem to decide if color or B&W?. > >> > >> Evening in La Rambla > >> > >> Leica M9, Summilux 75 wide open > >> > >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/La+Rambla/ > 20161221_L1013236+1.jpg.html> > >> > >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/La+Rambla/ > 20161221_L1013236.jpg.html> > >> > >> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome > >> > >> Saludos cordiales > >> Lluis > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html