Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/07

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Color(u)r or B&W?
From: nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat Aug 7 23:25:34 2004
References: <41150B2F.5000809@planet.nl>

Thanks to everyone who has responded to it. The results are a bit like a 
Florida election but without the hanging chads :-) In other words, 
rather inconclusive, albeit with a *slight* preference for the B&W 
version, but really slight.

As Ted said, this is evidently an image that works in both color and 
B&W, so from that point of view I should be pleased. I am however 
grateful to Steve for taking the trouble to show me how it would look in 
B&W, spurring me to get the Miranda plug-in and learning something new.

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> I have been having an offline dialogue with Steve Barbour about one of 
> the images I posted among my PAWs last week:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_31alt2.jpg
> 
> Steve suggested that this image would be better in B&W and took the 
> trouble of doing it with the JPEG I posted. I have now done a proper 
> converstion on the original Photoshop file, and the result is:
> http://www.leica-gallery.net/wajsman/image-71391.html
> 
> Personally, I still prefer the color version; I think the lion on the 
> bicycle cart and the mannequin in the shop window work best in color. 
> Steve prefers the B&W image, also cropped as he suggested. What do y'all 
> think?
> 
> BTW, I converted the color picture to B&W using Fred Miranda's B&W Pro 
> plug-in.
> 
> Nathan

-- 
Nathan Wajsman
Almere, The Netherlands

General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com
Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com



Replies: Reply from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] Re: Color(u)r or B&W?)
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