Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:23 PM 2/15/99 -0800, you wrote: >I see, so B&W is the holy grail of films...ehhh! Gosh, those modern fools >like Galen Rowell, Annie Leibovitz, et al they should know better than to >use color slide film. After all they are only famous and worth near >millions of US$. Ashame..... > >Peter K > > (Tina, just opinion. Is there another photographer aside Ted (nice >line by the way Ted) that is still alive and feels this way, refusing to use >colors nowadays? Doubtful.) > Ted uses color - when it's appropriate. So do I, but I prefer black and white. I have a slide show that I have given to at least 20 audiences comparing very similar black and white and color photographs. At the end, I ask which people prefer. 8 out of 10 prefer black and white. All of my photographs are of people. The only people photographs I can think of where color adds anything are indigenous people in their native costumes and then you're photographing the clothes, not the people. I hope to have a web page up tomorrow illustrating this. Tina