[Leica] what are the most important aspects of a photographic image?

[richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

Bob: John Sexton, Alan Ross, Michael Kenna, Michael Levin, Frank
Golhke,Timothy Cooper, Josef Hoflehner etc. ... are still churning out
wonderful B&W landscapes.

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Bob Adler <rgacpa at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Curious if folks feel that applies to landscapes too...
> Are the majority of impactful landscape photos BW or color? or both?
>
> I don't know if it's right to leave Adams out of the mix as he essentially
> has
> defined landscape photography for our generation. Maybe try to think of
> more
> recent landscape images that have impacted you.
>
> Just curious as one who concentrates more on landscape photography...
> Bob
>  Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.rgaphoto.com
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wed, January 5, 2011 7:57:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] what are the most important aspects of a photographic
> image?
>
> >From PhotoQuotes.com:
>
> TED GRANT
> father of Canadian Photojournalism
>
> When you photograph a man in color, you photograph his clothes. When you
> photograph a man in B&W, you photograph his soul. - Ted
> Grant<http://www.photoquotes.com/showquotes.aspx?id=525&name=Grant,Ted>
> - a famous Canadian photographer
>
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Craig Semetko <csemetko at gmail.com> 
> 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.
> >
> > For the most part, for my type of photography, I just like B&W better. To
> > me, it seems to have more gravitas. 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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>
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> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
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