Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner offered: Subject: Re: [Leica] What are the most important aspects of a photographic image? >>Just as Taking a normal Raw File and converting it to grayscale makes >>doing your work a two not one step process. So its kind of the same thing as what you're talking about only in reverse. We're just getting rid of the color wash and leaving ourselves with the black and white elements.<<<<<<<<<<<, Mark, I wonder if you wouldn't mind explaining the situation if I'm shooting with a Digilux 2 set on.... "B&w?" There isn't any colour exchange involved changing RAW colour to B&W? Now maybe the camera does this and I'm not aware? You look through the viewfinder and the scene or situation is B&W. You shoot and it's just as it appeared in the viewfinder.... B&W! You look through the view finder and you are looking at a B&W world. And if you wish to have an absolutely wierd visual experince it is??? ... "Look at the world in B&W through the viewfinder ... "SHOOT!" And immediatey return to the normal world of colour!. :-) It is a rather unusual visual experince.!" :-) Cheers, Dr. ted :-) > Adding a color wash to a pencil or ink sketch is like building blocks. Its > a > multi set process. Two steps mainly not just one. > > > Just as Taking a normal Raw File and converting it to grayscale makes > doing > your work a two not one step process. > So its kind of the same thing as what you're talking about only in > reverse. > We're just getting rid of the color wash and leaving ourselves with the > black and white elements. > The controls though that are available to do this in the past couple of > years in the Adobe Camera Raw raw filter is ideal. - a dream come true. > Ideal for a final clarity of image. Things can be made to separate that > you'd never think you could. For a black and white worker we're living in > an > ideal world. . Never better. > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > >> From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 12:58:34 -0600 (CST) >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] What are the most important aspects of a >> photographic >> image? >> >> On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> >>> I think the great days of black and white are over. I don't see anybody >>> missing it. >>> ... >>> I think to work in black and white in this digital age is a little odd. >>> ... >>> Its like throwing away information. Is that going to make it art? >> ============================================================================== >> ============================================================================== >> ============= >> It's sort of like saying no one should do pencil sketches or ink >> drawings, >> etchings, etc. anymore, unless they color them in. >> >> I think photography has always been about paring down reality, selecting >> from >> the whole world in front of that lens, that which is most relevant for >> that >> image, to put in the frame, and eliminating whatever is superfluous. >> >> Sometimes, color is superfluous. >> >> Alan >> >> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer >> UPAA POY 1978 >> University Information Technology Services >> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information