Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Or in my case, if a debit is better than a credit... ;-) Depends if you're a balance sheet or income statement kind of person! On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > To ask whether black and white or color is superior is like asking whether > a string quartet is "better" than a full orchestra. It's almost a > meaningless question. You can say what you prefer, you can say that this > one or that one works better in certain situations. > > I shoot both. Digital is great because I don't have to limit myself when > shooting. I let the picture tell me whether it wants to be in B&W. > > I think this shot works both ways. But I prefer a tighter crop with the > B&W. With the color, I want to see the green field with other couples on > it. > > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/**24844563 at > N04/9231959705/<http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/9231959705/> > > > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/**24844563 at > N04/9221845714/<http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/9221845714/> > > > > I generally do prefer B&W for people pictures. I think it helps remove > other distractions and focus attention on the people, as B.D. said. There > is also something beautiful and special about black and white. Perhaps > that's because I spent many hours looking at old Life Magazines and books > of the great photojournalists when I was young. I've noticed that many > thirty or fortysomething Americans prefer color, but my Russian and Eastern > European friends of the same age almost always prefer my B&W shots. Maybe > we just like the visual language we learned as kids, just as most of us > prefer the popular music from our childhood and teen years. > > When you're in places like Tina's Central America or Jayanand's India, > color is such an overwhelming part of what you see, so it begs to be used. > > Still, I have to ask this: Tina, I'm thinking of your wonderful grainy > B&W Noctilux shots in Central American huts, often by firelight. They have > a specialness in part because they are B&W. Suppose you had an M(240) back > then, or something else that could take decent photos at ISO 3200 or 6400. > Would you have used color? > > --Peter > > Quoth Jay Burleson: > > > With Dr. Ted's famous quote used to sum it all up... > > http://www.the.me/b-d-colen-**on-the-distraction-of-color-** > the-subject-is-black-and-**white/#ixzz2YKfnZYo6<http://www.the.me/b-d-colen-on-the-distraction-of-color-the-subject-is-black-and-white/#ixzz2YKfnZYo6> > > -- > > Jay, > > > > Jay Burleson Gallery > > <http://jayburleson.com/leica/**gallery/index.php/<http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/> > > > > "A photographer is simply someone who is > > looking for something that can't be found. > > The photograph is the record of that attempt." > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > -- Bob Adler