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Subject: [Leica] Tribal Faces
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:07:48 +0530
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Ted,Alan,Phil,
Thanks for looking and commenting
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:41 AM,  <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Phil Swango offered:
> Subject: [Leica] Tribal Faces
>
>
>> Now, Jayanand, you know this should have been in black and white!
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/People/_JGJ0793-Edit.jpg.html
>> >
>> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/People/_JGJ0793-Edit.jpg.html>;-)
>
> Hi ?Phil,
> I know you're pulling our leg joking. :-)
>
> India has been a country I've always wanted to do an assignment about or on
> some subject, simply because of the people and the mind blowing colours
> every where.
>
> To get there I'd even change my motto... "Real Photographers shoot B&W !"
> :-) You know the rest of it. ;-) But to "Real Photographers shoot colour!"
> ;-) A couple of times I've been close while on assignment in other
> countries, but never managed to lock down a second ?assignment to get me
> there.
>
> With-in India, as in most countries, there are ?subjects you could burn
> hundreds of rolls of colour simply because you'd basically be an idiot to
> shoot B&W. I mean what your subject was. Then another subject... "totally
> B&W.
>
> We have seen some of Tina's beautiful colour photos from ?a few years ago
> that are so beautiful one could hardly imagine a shot in B&W. But it would
> be the subject that would dictate B&W or Colour.
>
> Jayanand,
> I wouldn't have a problem putting in 18 hour days with so much colourful
> beauty before me. I'm sure for the first couple of days my cameras would be
> smoking in my hands from shooting frames by the thousands. :-)
> I'm sure I'd hate myself later during the editing time! :-)
>
> cheers,
> ted
>
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from pswango at att.net (Phil Swango) ([Leica] Tribal Faces)
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