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Subject: [Leica] PAW - Week 3 - Jeffery
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)
Date: Tue Jan 24 20:59:07 2006
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Jeffery,
A quick note if it's possible for you to work at your own time.

Every day it's overcast I'd be shooting the place as hard as I could go for 
as long as I could go.!

If you shoot on brilliant sunny sky days it'll take the feel of disaster 
away. You'll have black shadows to deal with all over the place and the 
appearance of disaster will not have the same impact. The pictures because 
if you shoot in colour will look like nothing more than another Hollywood 
disaster scene.

As far as shooting colour? It would have to be some smashing brilliant 
colours, probably a close-up or medium shot to make it worth while. If it 
were me to shoot colour it would have to be a smack in the face impact of 
colour.

However, the scenes we've looked at so far have such B&W power to them this 
subject just has to be shot in B&W!

Think about WW2 and the cities after the bombings, which pictures appeared 
more devastating, those in colour? Or those in B&W?  B&W hands down 
everytime.

ted


Ted Grant Photography Limited
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