Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 5/7/04 5:42 PM, "Douglas M. Sharp" <DouglasMSharp@netscape.net> wrote: > Personally I prefer the cloured version, probably due to the fact that > the colours are in monochromatic blocks without any disturbing patterns > in the main subject. If the girls dress had been strongly patterned and > your sons sweatshirt, say, a bright red this would IMO have distracted > away from the faces and made the BW version the better one. > Douglas > > The german language has a nice way of distinguishing colour schemes > "bunt" meaning bright, brash, hectic colours (what used to be said of > the first > Fuji films) and "Farbig" showing the true colours in a decent tonal > distribution. The expressions Buntbilder and Farbbilder adequately and > easily > describe the difference. > > B. D. Colen schrieb: > >> I just posted four new images at >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/BDCOLENPHOTOS >> The first two, of my younger son and his girl friend, were shot as bw >> with the C8080 - the third and fourth, of older son and his girl friend, >> are the same photo, first as shot in color - 800 asa, with E-1, and then >> converted to bw using the FredMiranda action. Both the color and BW >> version were adjusted similarly in Photoshop. So does color add, or >> distract? We give you the images - you decide! :-) >> >> B. D. >> >> >> > >From flunking French in high school (too many freshman girls in miniskirts and fishnets) I remember there is a masculine and feminine to everything. The Eiffel tower is masculine. Duh!... Now which language has a color or black and white to everything?! Icelandic? Le Tour Eiffel is black and white that's for damn sure! Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon New-improved http://rabinergroup.com/