Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/24

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Subject: [Leica] color vs bw images...
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sat May 24 16:11:31 2008
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At 05:57 PM 5/24/2008, you wrote:
>perhaps, if all this holds truth, this may be causing you to be less
>convinced of your end goals, the resulting images being less
>convincing as well...
>
>
>Steve

Steve -  Thanks for your comments.  For me, it's probably more of a 
digital vs film thing.  Back when I used film, one camera had color 
film and one had B&W and I was always aware of the difference.  I 
also almost always preferred B&W.  At that time, the end purpose of 
the photos was to convince people to give money or support to the 
agencies I was working with.  B&W was more convincing.  Now with 
digital, everything starts out as color so I have a choice once I 
download the photos and start to process them.  I still like B&W but 
the end purpose of the photos has also changed.  Now I'm leasing 
photos through several agencies.  I have never had a request for a 
B&W stock photo.  All of the publishers want color.  If they decide 
to use B&W, they want to convert it themselves.  They want the choice, too.

In the case of Guatemala and India, the colors in both countries are 
so overwhelming that it's hard for me to see in B&W.  Occasionally 
there is a color photo that works as well or better in B&W, like the 
one  Philippe pointed out earlier.  Honduras, on the other hand, has 
always seemed B&W.  That's just the way I see them.  I'll be going 
back to Honduras in July so I guess I'll see if it's still B&W with my M8;-)

I don't think I would ever go back to film so I guess my challenge 
now is to make my digital photos as convincing as my film ones used 
to be.  (That's kind of what I'll be speaking on in NY, comparing the 
film photos I used to take with my M6's and 7's with the digital M8 
ones that I take now.)  Any suggestions on how to do that would be 
greatly appreciated!!

Tina

Tina Manley
www.tinamanley.com 


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