Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think that in terms of convenience B&W has no advantage over color these days, Larry. It is also increasingly used in advertising where urgency is not an issue. It is simply a matter of people recognizing that sometimes this aesthetic works better than color. One of the reasons I love Lightroom is that it makes it extremely easy for me to see how the image looks in monochrome and flip back to color if I so desire. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Jan 6, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > Mark comments: > > "I did walk into my apartment building last night and there was a newspaper > > on the floor in the mail area and the cover shot was black and white. It > > was the NY Times. So people are still seeing breaking news in black and > > white." > >> From what I understand of the newspaper business, there is no particular > merit in B&W other than convenience. Editors choose photos and configure > the > front page to sell papers. In the UK it is either nude cuties, or a scandal > involving the Royal family. In the U.S. it is either a horrendous murder or > unexpected sports or political results. Back in the day B&W was the > quickest > (and only) way to get a picture on the front page while the news was hot. > During my brief tenure as a photog for the Boston Globe we would snap a 4x5 > photo of a spectacular final quarter goal in a Celtics basketball game, > soup > it in a dip tank on the way to the office in a taxi, pass the wet negative > to the Editor who cut it to size with a scissors, run it down to the > engraving room elves who had a halftone plate on the press within 10 > minutes. The newsboys were hawking papers showing the winning goal as the > fans filed out of the Boston Garden. It took only 30 minutes from taking > the > picture to getting the paper on the streets. It would have been impossible > with the color processes available in the 50s. I don't know much about > today's digital technology but printing and distributing a newspaper still > takes time. Of course it could be done in an instant on the internet. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >