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Subject: [Leica] MM - first impressions
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:52:16 -0400
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I should have realized!! The "colorized" versions were so awful! Now that I
reread your post, I get it :-)

Tina


On Thursday, August 30, 2012, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
> Tina,
>
> I apologize.  My post was yet another failed attempt at humor, difficult
at
> best in the web.  Yes, most everything I print is b&w.  I don't know if I
am
> tainted from darkroom experience, or if for some reason I just "see"
better
> in b&w.  Now, my wife has the ability to "see" and compose in color, far
> better than I can.  But then she is a lot smarter and talented than I am
in
> every way.
>
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina
> Manley
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 7:29 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] MM - first impressions
>
> I don't agree.  I think Ted is right when he says, "When you photograph
> people in color, you photograph their clothes.  When you photograph people
> in B&W, you photograph their souls."  I see faces and eyes much clearer in
> B&W than I do in color.  Color is just a distraction unless it is the
> purpose of the photo.
>
> Tina
>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Ted,
>>
>> I'm not Emanuel, but, yes, I must say the photo of Trudeau would have
>> a little more interest in color.  In the interests of better
>> photography, I have supplied the following link to a program that will
>> allow you to add
>> color:
>>
>> http://www.recolored.com/
>>
>> Yes, I agree the photo is somewhat  iconic in a sense and the b&w adds
>> a certain energy to it, but just imagine if it was color!  Now, once
>> you have corrected it in this software (just $29), you can get any
>> number of plug-ins that will then emulate Velvia.  Then the National
>> Archives will just pee themselves at the result.  There is no need to
>> thank me for these technical
>> tips- we photographers look out after each other, yes?
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>> tedgrant at shaw.ca
>> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 6:27 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] MM - first impressions
>>
>> SO EMANUEL WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS???
>>
>> My photograph of Prime Minister Pierre Elliot  Trudeau of Canada
>> sliding down a stair case bannister hands held on high doesn't count,
>> because it's shot in B&W. And not Velvia??????
>>
>> When it's recognized as the most iconic politcal photograph in the
>> history of Canada! Not by me, but the National Archives of Canada and
>> many other organizations of similar position.
>>
>> Is that correct good Sir?
>>
>> Just a passing thought.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Dr. ted :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "EPL" <manolito at videotron.ca>
>> To: <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:38 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] MM - first impressions
>>
>>
>> > Correct me if I am mistaken, but this M Monochrome thing will
>> > capture images in, er, black and white? Like, basically, fifty
>> > shades of grey? Grey? The colour of age and Death?
>> >
>> > This isn't like the second coming of Velvia. Now that was something.
>> > That was, like, a kandy-colored tangerine-flake streamline babe.
>> > Nice bright colours. Dreams of summer. Kodachrome on juice.
>> >
>> > I always thought that Ansel Adams was a wanker for depicting
>> > landscapes
>> in
>> > b&w. Like he was imposing humanity's morbid gloom on God's great glory.
>> >
>> > The painters at Lascaux used every colour they could see and could
>> > reproduce. No monochrome. Because they didn't go to school or
>> > imagine
>> they
>> > knew better.
>> >
>> > Emanuel
>> >
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Leica Users Group.
>> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>>
>>
>> _______________________________

-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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