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Subject: [Leica] The "problem" with the M9
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 09:02:24 -0800
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> On Jan 2, 2017, at 8:51 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I am sorry to come back on this, but I believe that the photographer 
> should make a decision by pre-visualisation of how the final image should 
> look. Although this may may be a split-second decision based on intuition 
> and experience that decision is important. If you shoot in b&w you shoot 
> for the composition of light and dark, highlights and shadows whereas if 
> you shoot in colour you shoot for the interplay of the colours of the 
> image and the way the balance together. This is a decision that cannot be 
> realistically made afterwards as the two images/decisions are different. 
> If you make the dcision afterwards it will never be as good as the 
> pre-visualisation that should have been done before.


I agree with you Gerry.


steve

> 
> Gerry
> 
>> On 2 Jan 2017, at 13:46, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Ever since I switched to digital I have had problems with some images 
>> deciding whether it is a ?colour? image or a ?mono? image. It was easier 
>> in my opinion when you carried two cameras, and you made the decision at 
>> the point of pressing the button, and then you had decided. It was a 
>> decision made at that moment, in that mood, at (to quote HC-B) the point 
>> when the heart, the eye and the mind come together. There is no better 
>> time to decide because never again will those three factors coincide. I 
>> am afraid that the decision on which of these two images is purely yours 
>> to make because neither is better or worse than the other.
>> 
>> I wish you luck with your decision,
>> 
>> Gerry
>> 
>>> On 2 Jan 2017, at 01:51, lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography 
>>> at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The Day I went to shoot ?Giving Smiles? I?ve carried the M9, it poses 
>>> sometimes a problem to decide if color or B&W?.
>>> 
>>> Evening in La Rambla
>>> 
>>> Leica M9, Summilux 75 wide open
>>> 
>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/La+Rambla/20161221_L1013236+1.jpg.html>
>>> 
>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/La+Rambla/20161221_L1013236.jpg.html>
>>> 
>>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome
>>> 
>>> Saludos cordiales
>>> Lluis
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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