Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina showed: Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Rain - B&W? At 01:22 PM 8/8/2008, you wrote: >Might work better as a cold tone B&W rather than a warm tone as it looks >here. A very difficult shot done to perfection. >Mark William Rabiner Tina said: >>Thanks, Mark. I tried it cold: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/101381455 Better? Tina me dear, Now yer cookin! :-) Sometimes it really works. :-) "REAL PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOOT BLACK & WHITE!" ;-) A beauty without question! One can almost feel the rain. The first posting was interesting with the slightly warm tone. However, "cool B&W?" A beauty indeed! It was always a tough call which to use, colour or B&W when we had to use film so we had to shoot both. What a waste of film and time! Today with digital? It's a no brainer, simply shoot it colour, flip it later without loosing quality in one or the other. In many cases we gain another photo completely because both can work depending on the final end use. The point of "which to shoot" came up at an art director meeting yesterday. They really wanted to be able to use B&W or colour depending on several promotion packages they were producing. I offered. "Piece of cake because we're all shooting digital so you can flip the image to whatever colour you wish in post production!" It seemed one of the AD's earlier had concern about me always saying "real photogs shoot B&W!" And he didn't want extra work with both types of film and or an argument with me if I stood my ground about the power of B&W. :-) He imagined from what he'd heard, I was going to be a mean ass about using B&W for this particular medical assignment. Me? Heck I'm too easy going for that kind of argument when yer being "paid nicely to shoot it." :-) So Thursday next week I'm shooting an all day assignment 7am until ? nightfall anyway, in the Cardiac OR's. Should be a day of interesting moments. :-) All in living colour! You just have to love digital, I can't imagine going back to film for any reason at the moment. Certainly in a case like this where both types of images are required for the end project. ted