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Subject: [Leica] My attitude about Colo(u)r
From: sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)
Date: Thu Feb 3 11:16:11 2005
References: <200502030037.j130ZYWQ092380@server1.waverley.reid.org> <ccb07b6fdd87029795d899b318c4b1cb@mindspring.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20050202222622.01f82488@mail.comporium.net> <p06110401be277c1777fc@[10.0.1.6]> <6.1.2.0.2.20050203060132.04e8a888@mail.comporium.net> <004601c50a0c$d0ee4a50$833b6d18@ted>

Ted, your comment is exactly why I asked George Lottermoser the reason for 
his poll.

Seth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] My attitude about Colo(u)r


> Tina Manley said:
>>> Most look acceptable until you put them next to each other!<<<
>
> Hi Tina,
> And right there is what throws people off in making decisions of what they 
> think is right or wrong.
>
> Unfortunately, been there done it many times and it never fails when you 
> put print's of the same scene beside each other, it can drive you crazy 
> deciding which you like or don't.
>
> However, put a print in one room, the other in another room without side 
> by each comparison and they "Both will look great!" Obviously, unless you 
> deliberately throw the colour or composition/cropping wildly off on one.
>
> But comparing the Mosque for example in different rooms they both will 
> look fine. Side by each and great controversy can or will erupt. Actually 
> I like both even side by each simply because I put them under they were 
> taken during light at different times of the day, period. So that makes 
> them both OK.
>
> Write a caption stating one was shot at dawn or on an overcast day and a 
> viewers mind automatically accepts the blue. :-)
>
> ted
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> " <images@InfoAve.Net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] My attitude about Colo(u)r
>
>
>> At 02:04 AM 2/3/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>>It's easy to say that one or the other, most likely the latter, is more 
>>>accurate, but that presents only part of the matter. That's why we fiddle 
>>>with colour balance and saturation, to present our pictures with the 
>>>colours that our memories say they were.
>>>
>>>Between our memories and individual perceptions a whole range of colour 
>>>representations are possible.
>>>--
>>>    *            Henning J. Wulff
>>
>> Absolutely!  I can understand that photographers whose job it is to 
>> photograph clothing for catalogues or examples of paint swatches or 
>> furniture need to balance their colors exactly, but for personal work 
>> anything goes!  I like warmer people and cooler forests.  I like Velvia 
>> landscapes and Astia people.  With PhotoKit Color you can try all kinds 
>> of layers of color. > Tina
>>
>>
>> Tina Manley, ASMP
>> www.tinamanley.com
>>
>>
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