Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philippe, Both the songs are familiar - the second is definitely "I Will Wait For You" - what is the name of the first? The voices seem dubbed, and the style owes a lot to Jon Hendricks and Manhattan Transfer, I am sure I have heard one of them sing it. Nathan, Brilliant photograph. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:40 PM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>wrote: > Beautifully balanced composition and tones - it sings! > > In between Fred Astair and a crossbreed of > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uopjMuYY3F8 > and > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JS4JMY0JWM > > Rain sometimes helps a photog, > in that respect I should feel a happy camper ;-) > > Great great photo Nathan > > Amiti?s > Philippe > > Le 15 avr. 11 ? 09:02, Nathan Wajsman a ?crit : > > >> Hi Ted, >> >> I wonder if you are thinking about this one, from Seville in 2003 or 2004? >> >> http://www.frozenlight.eu/fotosevilla/night/content/L2004_14_12_large.html >> >> That was one of my most-commented-upon pictures ever. >> >> 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 Apr 15, 2011, at 8:43 AM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> >> wrote: >> >> Lawrence Zeitlin offered >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Barcelona in color >>> >>> >>> Nathan, >>>> Not trolling at all. I was just curious. Many of the pictures that you >>>> post >>>> in and around Alicante are about people too, yet you usually shoot in >>>> color.<<<, >>>> >>> >>> >>> Hi Larry, >>> That may be true, however some of Nathan's more spectacular photographs >>> over the years have been people in B&W! There is one I recall from >>> several >>> years ago at night with a few people on the street. I believe Madrid? >>> Barcelona? Or some other location prior to his moving to Alicante? It was >>> most eye catching simply because it was in B&W! >>> >>> I reject Dr. Ted's pat aphorism that when you photograph people in >>>> color, >>>> you photograph their clothes but when you shoot B&W you photograph their >>>> soul. <<< >>>> >>> >>> Be my guest and reject all you like my friend. :-) However let me give an >>> example.:-) True incident in the UK several years ago. >>> >>> Two photographers with a portrait studio decided they'd only shoot B&W >>> portraits. They completely renovated the studio front windows, >>> re-opening as >>> a B&W portraits only! In the front exhibit space they placed beautiful >>> B&W >>> portrait prints and advertised they only did their portraits in B&W. >>> >>> Clients who insisted on colour were offered B&W or the doorway! One would >>> think them a bit looney given this was the beginning of a new operation >>> and >>> one would surely want every dollar possible. >>> >>> However? Given it being a very fine portrait studio originally with a >>> great number of clients prior to the change over. Within the first three >>> months they tripled the gross income shooting only B&W! Whatever it is >>> about >>> B&W drew a wonderful new clientele. >>> >>> Actually the difference is the "content" creates which is greater in many >>> cases. >>> >>> Disasters generally look worse in B&W simply because the content is >>> usually violent and death! Of course not in every case. What is the B&W >>> photograph that comes to mind from Vietnam? I have two without question. >>> Eddie Adams photo of the police officer shooting the VC through the head >>> and >>> the young girl running away from the Napalm with her clothes and body >>> burnt. >>> Vivid B&W both! And colour wouldn't have added anything! >>> >>> Imagine Matthew Brady's problem trying to photograph the US Civil war in >>>>> color using the wet collodion process.<< >>>>> >>>> >>> I doubt they'd be any better! As most are "classic content" images to >>> start with, so I doubt colour would've improved them at all. Regardless >>> of >>> the technical situation. Along those lines if we compare the dramatic B&W >>> movies of the past, quite often these days we see with "colour added." >>> Quite >>> frankly they look quite horrid as the colour adds absolutely nothing, but >>> almost destroys the craftsmanship of the lighting people and camera >>> angles . >>> >>> Colour can in many cases, be a complete distraction from the content. As >>> I understand photography, it's the content that is the most important >>> part >>> of the photograph. That is unless one is dabbling strictly in colour for >>> colour sake. >>> >>> So Larry mon ami it's basically "to each his own." I shoot colour when >>> the assignment is to be shot in colour and B&W when the assignment is for >>> B&W re-production. I would offer, of the 100,000 images in the National >>> Gallery of Canada collection they are all B&W documentary images. The >>> 280,000 images in the National Archives of Canada collection? It's >>> probably >>> 75% B&W, 25% colour. Again simply because of the assignment and whether >>> magazine assignments, travel or tourism or whether the client asked >>> specifically to shoot in whatever medium. >>> >>> I suppose if you owned one of my published medical books, "This is Our >>> Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler" "Doctor's Work" or "Women in >>> Medicine. A celebration of their Work." You might have a better >>> understanding what I mean: "When you photograph people in colour, you >>> photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you >>> photograph their souls!" >>> >>> And as far as digital? Quite often I use my Digilux 2 set to shoot B&W >>> and I get some very interesting B&W images. Actually the really cool >>> thing >>> is, looking through the viewfinder at a B&W world and "Click!" A B&W >>> image >>> right out of the camera! :-) >>> >>> cheers, >>> Dr. ted :-) >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >