Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/07

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Subject: [Leica] Color vs. black and white
From: oliverbryk at iqmail.net (Oliver)
Date: Fri May 7 19:08:50 2004
 
B. D. wrote:
>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.

I much prefer the black and white version of BD's older son and his girl
friend. In this compositon, color distracts from the shapes. Just my way of
looking at the world...
Oliver Bryk