Re: [Leica] filters/choices for shoot at indoor pool

[Adam Bridge <abridge@idea-processing.com>]

On 1/25/00 at 1:08 PM, kabob@tiac.net (Bob Keene/Karen Shehade) wrote:

I hate to say this but I have a real difficulty composing for B&W. Somehow, in
my head, color has such a great precedence over luminance that it seems
impossible to get the compositions right.

I know -- a sad and dreary admission. I keep leafing through Ansel Adams' work
and being amazed at how he was able to see.

Also, remember that I'm aiming for an audience of video and web where color is
expected. Although I could just desaturate the video, I suppose and make the
whole film B&W.

I'm really excited, of course. The US Olympic Trials is the fastest swim meet in
the world, incredibly intense: The Meet Where Everyone Cries. (You cry if you
don't make finals, you cry if you aren't in the top 2 and don't go the Olympics,
you cry if you DO make the top two and do go to the Olympics).

I'm taking a 35mm, 50mm and 90mm lens (that's all I can afford to own). I get
recommendations about using Fugi 800. Since I'm not shooting action (swimmers
aren't my target, at least not primarily) I'm also going to take some finer
grain film when I have to shoot at a distance. And my video equipment of course.

I figure I'll look like a Turnley with all this stuff -- and pray I don't fall
in. :-)

ab
> Adam-
> 
> Screw it. Use Black & White. Or have two bodies, one with B&W pushed around
> 800-1600asa.
> ("Color film is like seeing the movie. Black and white is like reading the
> book." -Clay Blackmore)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bob (who may be going to Paris, but envys the Olympic Trials Guy!) Keene
> 
> >