Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 21, 2005, at 2:55 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > Steve Barbour showed: the POWER of B&W!!!!! > > >> from today... >> 22 months old, a little Hopi boy will go home to the >> third mesa, on Tuesday >> >>> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-86552.html<< >>> > > Hi Steve mon ami, > > It's like "WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" > > What a great example in the "POWER of B&W!" This young boy has far > more > dramatic feeling to it in B&W compared to the picture in colour! > Absolutely > illustrates how colours can, will and do distract from content time > after > time. > > The look on this young lads face and the power of his eyes is amazing > compared to the colour shot of him. If we have doubters in the > crowd they > better have another look at the two pictures, colour vs. B&W! And > there > isn't any comparison which is the more powerful in message! > > It truly is "LIGHT-EYES-CONTENT!" > > Well done for showing the difference! That's why I've always said > photographs of war, strife, poverty and the down and out folks have > far > greater impact in B&W than colour. > > My feeling on this has very much to do with the advent of colour TV > where we > as humans see the killing, death and destruction in colour every > day and > week of the year on the 6 o'clock news. Therefore we tend to become > and have > become immune to it due to "It's only TV!" Sure that's a discussion > subject, > but far closer to the truth than many would admit! > > But show the same subjects in B&W and it's a whole new ball game. :-( > > The Marines in the battle for Hue photographs for example.. Look at > those in > colour on the back of the tanks and others during that time in B&W > and it > truly is a completely different visual story and feelings created. > > If one wishes to tell and make a point with and about human beings, > the best > route always is in B&W! I agree Ted, re bw is better... simpler, more direct, as in poetry versus rhetoric, and when people see bw it simply signals...this is to be taken seriously... thank you, Steve