Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Clearly this is why all of Rembrandt's portraits are in charcoal? One of my favorite portraits is in Kodachrome with my Tele-Elmarit. Another favorite portrait is of the same subject in Tri-X with my DR Summicron. I understand some have this issue settled in their own minds, but for me it's not a judgment that needs to be made. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] [PAW] IMG: Flower Girls Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2012 6:48 pm Portraits in B&W, most other photos in colour! Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:39 PM, jon.streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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