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Subject: [Leica] what are the most important aspects of a photographic image?
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 07:43:02 -0800
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On Jan 5, 2011, at 7:22 AM, Craig Semetko wrote:

> Yes, I am selling b&w work, and from what i've seen in galleries many are 
> selling b&w as well. And Tina and Ted have chimed in that they are too.

yes, thirded...


> 
> For the most part, for my type of photography, I just like B&W better. To 
> me, it seems to have more gravitas.


what goes around, comes around....just yesterday, a man ( he just retired 
from the Sacramento Police Department) told me he prefers the bw images to 
the color....

here's his surprising (to me) quote....

"Thank you for forwarding the photos taken this morning.  In comparing the 
black and white with the color photographs, I think the black and white 
photos have a greater degree of visual impact.  Obviously, I'm influenced by 
the photos of Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange."

I hear this all the time...  egs...

"I love bw.  The color just looks like snapshots that we take at the 
birthday parties)....


so just look and decide .  Color is another tool like sharpening, ----some 
times it helps, sometimes it detracts...


ymmv


Steve


 

> I'm shooting both film and digital but converting most digital to B&W with 
> silver efex pro. It just seems to look more timeless to me. Three of my 
> images, I think, in my upcoming show at the Leica Gallery in NYC are 
> converted M8 and M9 files. If I processed them well, it's just about 
> impossible to tell the prints from silver gelatin.
> 
> craig
> 
> 
> On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:11 PM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Really whose making and selling recently made black and white 
>>> photography?
>>> On the LUG we have Craig Semetko.
>>> But I believe Crag is the exception not the rule.
>> 
> 
> 
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