Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Le 15 avr. 11 ? 16:44, Jayanand Govindaraj a ?crit : > > Philippe, > Both the songs are familiar - the second is definitely "I Will Wait > For You" the music is by French composer Michel Legrand who then spent some time in the US - I didn't know there had been versions in English , thanks. http://www.google.fr/search?q=michel+legrand&tbo=p&tbm=vid&source=vgc&hl=fr&aq=f > - what is the name of the first? Les parapluies de Cherbourg, and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort after the films ... > The voices seem dubbed, They are - it is an old movie, both are in fact. Starring Catherine Deneuve - and her late sister - the most beautiful French woman ever ( Bardot comes second to many) http://www.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=deneuve&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1024&bih=1068 More about the making of, but I'm afraid it's in French ... It says the Parapluies (umbrellas) was a long experimental process http://www.canal-u.tv/producteurs/la_cinematheque_francaise/dossier_programmes/l_experience_cinema_michel_legrand_et_la_musique_de_film/michel_legrand_et_la_musique_de_film_4_8_le_travail_avec_jacques_demy Amiti?s Ph > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >