Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I'm glad you liked them. Of course the carnival is very colourful. >However, I am of the opinion that using colour would have weakened them; >they would have run the rist of turning into picture postcards. But then I >am a B&W man. > >John OK John, I like too B&W but not always. I should take a picture of a rainbow but never B&W. My point is that some images when private of his polychrome character become stronger as in the way the simplification has achieved something like a concentration or reduct6ion of his essence. This is quite true referring to human beings pictures and concern movies too. Nobody could imagine the neorealistic cinema or first Ingman Bergman films in color. But other subjects are much better traduced into images in color. So I'm a b&w man when the subject is asking it and a color man when is asking the full richness of his color. I thought, humbly, that your Venetian pictures were asking color. Just my opinion. Up to the moment of my wife's health started to become worse we were in this town once every year, at least, and I have shot literally thousand pictures. None in b&w. Some of the most interesting are those of the most decadent and ramshackle corners of the Adriatic town but even those have such a lordship character that were asking for color. Again my opinion. Warm regards Felix