Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm glad some have pinned down which is better, color or b&w. I've been at this since childhood, and I can't see how it's possible to choose. I do some of my digital files in both, and the closest I can come to a ruling on the issue is that both look good and one is in color and the other is in black and white. The color ones have better color. The black-and-white ones emphasize shape and texture, etc. Wouldn't a color portrait of Lincoln or color photographs of the Civil War era be fun to stumble across? And, again, how many of us have walked out of the Getty Museum, shaking our heads and saying, Well, those were nice paintings, but they'd have been better in black and white? And yet when I think of my favorite photographs, mine and others', almost all of my favorites are in b&w. I love the color aspect of Tina's photographs. And when I see her b&w photographs of the same culture, I love those too. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Steve Barbour" <steve.barbour at gmail.com> To: "A forum dedicated to the Picture-A-Week project" <paw at micapeak.com> Cc: <MUGers at yahoogroups.com>, " Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net>, " seephoto" <seephoto at micapeak.com>, "lug" <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] [PAW] IMG: Flower Girls Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2012 8:40 am On Nov 16, 2012, at 7:06 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > PESO: > > Don't have my targets yet, but couldn't resist posting one I had already > scanned. This one is Provia 100: > > http://www.pbase.com/image/147349990 I am going to try this out, but I expect some resistance... :-) I suspect that some of these, eg this one may be better in bw, I know that color is important, but with the color, "it's all about color". Showing these images in bw would focus on your exquisite capture of the children, being as they are, wonderful faces, postures, interaction. So succumbing to the idea that color requires color, creates sameness, and robs the photos of the features that make each capture different and quite beautiful. Steve > > C&C? > > Tina > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information