Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ansel said that every time a photographer prints a negative its like an orchestral conductor conducting a score in front of an orchestra. And has a literal aspect as you're doing a lot of waving around of your hands over the print dodging and burning with the enlarging light on. And the way a "performance" works is no two are alike and when you conduct a piece years later you approached it differently most often. Ansel knew as much about music as he did photography. I think that made him a better artist from any angle. But this approach was not an exception to a rule it was pretty common. If you can even remember what you had in mind when you make the shot you easily can change it halfway through your printing process as you see whats going on with way its printing. On 1/2/17 7:10 PM, "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote: > ...as Ansel tried to teach is. Peter On 02/01/2017 16:51, Gerry Walden > 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. > > 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.htm > l> >>> >>> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/La+Rambla/20161221_L1013236.jpg.html> > >>> >>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome >>> >>> Saludos > cordiales >>> Lluis >>> >>> >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > -- > =========================================================== Dr Peter > Dzwig _______________________________________________ Leica Users > Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/