[Leica] Ted 2, Bob 0...

[rpalmier at depaul.edu (bob palmieri)]

Ted (and other interested parties) -

Well... as you may recall I had Big Plans to test out that Expanded  
Dynamic Range thing where you shoot a few pictures at different  
apertures and combine them in the computer to get all the highlight  
and shadow detail together.
As it turned out, I never found a single situation on this extended  
shooting trip where I could use it, basically because I realized that  
in most of the things I shoot something is always moving.  Could be  
the clouds in the landscape, could be the filtered light is changing  
rapidly, could be the wind is blowing the reeds around or the fog is  
floating across the shot; in the immortal words of Gilda Radner...  
"It's always something!"

So, you dog, you've won another round.

Also, in your original provocative post a while back you said  
something about black & white getting the soul of the subject  
(people, usually).  When I sought out some vintage Hawaiian photos it  
turned out that the B&W shots of Hula dancers were much more  
"connecting" than similar full-color snaps.  (My thirteen-cent-theory  
about this is that color takes up a lot of brain-processing-power,  
and when it's absent you have more resources available to concentrate  
on other aspects of the picture.)

Round two to you.

Bob Palmieri