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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Elderly man - re Teds advice
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:22:05 -0700
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for the sake of discussion and Ted's thoughts, what if...?

the man in bw, the rest in color ...(or possibly the reverse)

usually not my cup of tea, it just may work here,



Steve







On Apr 21, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Tina Manley wrote:

> For this one, I prefer color.  I like what you've done with the colors -
> the blues and golds really stand out and the fruit in the store looks 
> great.
> 
>          Tina
> 
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Ted
>> 
>> Thanks for commenting, and you are/were absolutely right. I had already
>> done a b&w conversion and tussled as to which was better so I have now
>> uploaded both the LUG gallery. You can see the HDR at:
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gwpics/03-0342.jpg.html
>> 
>> and the b&w is sitting right next to it. Maybe other opinions could be
>> given - which is the prefered option? For me they are both joint first.
>> 
>> Gerry
>> 
>> Gerry Walden
>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>> www.gwpics.com
>> 
>> On 21 Apr 2012, at 17:08, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:
>> 
>>> Gerry Walden SHOWED:
>>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Elderly man
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I shot this in Italy nearly nine years ago on the first digital camera
>> I ever used, a Fuji S2Pro. One of the great things I love about digital is
>> you can revist an image and produce a totally different vision of the
>> original and I have reworked the image using LR4 and a pseudo-HDR plug-in:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> http://gerrywalden.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Italy-The-Italians/G00007In8gWq63I0/I00004S9_fbphFtg
>>> 
>>> Hi Gerry,
>>> Have you tried converting this to B&W?  It's the kind of street scene
>> that might just have a stronger? Harsher look of a tired elderly man
>> message in B&W? Maybe? But it' sort of has enough going for it for a try.
>>> 
>>> Even though I like the colour very much it seems a street scene for B&W?
>> Maybe??????????
>>> 
>>> And given these days and computer-Photoshop it's merely a "click away!"
>> ;-) One of the reasons I like using Photoshop is for this reason. Seeing a
>> photo in both mediums!
>>> 
>>> Besides, as you well know. A photograph with strength in both B&W &
>> colour is the mark of a photograph that's sometimes a smashing great 
>> photo!
>> Of course one must look first. ;-)
>>> 
>>> The one thing it illustrates is just how I have been feeling this past
>> few weeks, always looking for a place to sit as my drive to get on with
>> things and life seems ebbing away to some kind of worthlessness ! :-(
>>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> ted
>>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> ted
>>> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
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