Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/06

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Subject: [Leica] There is more to light than how bright it is...
From: azn at nemeng.com (Andrew Nemeth)
Date: Thu May 6 15:59:09 2004
References: <200405062052.i46Klgml063716@server1.waverley.reid.org>

On 07/05/2004, at 6:52 AM, Ted Grant opined:

> In other words when I say, "When you photograph people in colour, you
> photograph their clothes. But when you photograph them in B&W you 
> photograph
> their souls!"
>
> Will we shoot more "soul showing" pictures because we see it in B&W?  
> Some
> how I believe it'll be the first thing first... "how the light is 
> working on
> the subject regardless of seeing it in B&W or colour. "
>


For a much-needed antidote to this "B&W = truth" madness, see

<http://4020.net/unposed/critics.shtml#bw>

For every hypothesis there is an anti-hypothesis.

:?)





Regds,

Andrew Nemeth
Blue Mountains  NSW   Australia
<http://nemeng.com>


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