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Subject: [Leica] Color vs B&W
From: lew1716 at gmail.com (Lew Schwartz)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:30:30 -0500
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I actually think of a color photo ( or painting for that matter) as
black and white to which color has been added. This stripping away
idea is an artifact of digital processing, and digital, btw, is an RGB
combination of three B&W values, as was and is true for all of photo
history. Color is added and added last.
Someone wrote:
I feel that the stripping away of color lets you see ...
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