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Subject: [Leica] PEGOIAW: Storm Warning: Puget Sound, WA
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Fri Aug 29 16:30:00 2008
References: <4cfa589b0808252018s39658d5ekb992c42f8e6d9db9@mail.gmail.com> <8CE0D202-0F5C-44CF-853F-255E16C6D742@frozenlight.eu>

Thanks for looking Nathan and thank you for sharing your observations
and reasoning. I greatly appreciate them.

Adam

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu> wrote:
> For me, the B&W is far stronger. Why? Because this is a very simple image.
> What carries it are a few graphic elements and the overall composition. The
> color is just a distraction, so removing it makes a better image.
>
> Just my 0.02 ? worth, of course.
>
> Nathan
>
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> On Aug 26, 2008, at 5:18 AM, Adam Bridge wrote:
>
>> I have two versions of this image, unfortunately sized slightly
>> differently.
>>
>> I'd be interested in your take on which you like better and why:
>>
>> The original:
>>
>> <http://www.adam-bridge.com/Images/L1005343-web.jpg>
>>
>> My revision:
>>
>> <http://www.adam-bridge.com/Images/L1005343-as-bw-web.jpg
>>
>> Details: Leica M8 with 35mm sumicron. The 2nd image is processed using
>> Alien Skin's B&W conversion software.
>>
>> Thanks for looking...
>>
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> Photographer's note: This was taken this morning before a really nasty
>> storm blew in from the Pacific. (We had ducked out of town so we
>> missed it. My son was not so lucky.) This is taken at Silverdale, WA
>> across the sound from Seattle. Obviously the tide was out and the wind
>> had not, yet, begun.
>>
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In reply to: Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] PEGOIAW: Storm Warning: Puget Sound, WA)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] PEGOIAW: Storm Warning: Puget Sound, WA)