Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Feb 28, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > PESO: > > I'm back from Peru, still unpacking and washing clothes, and trying > to edit photos! Today's blog is from February 1st when we visited > the Pisac Sunday market. I'm still using the jpegs from my two M8's > that I designated as one for B&W and one for color. I'm sure when I > have more time, I'll rethink some of these and use the RAW files to > determine whether I really want B&W or color. Most of the market > scenes probably work better in color, but this is the way I saw them > at the time. For a lot of these, I used my 75/1.4. > > http://leicatraveler.blogspot.com/2009/02/february-1-2009.html many wonderful images Tina... and the beauty of the resplendent colors goes without saying...and I love the faces... but that said, I prefer the bw, and I'd like to see some faces close up in bw... it seems the color after a while becomes an end in itself, dulls the senses, like too much chocolate...makes one desire a long drink of water... one piece of chocolate is perfect, two is too much... sort of like the old one...first prize is a week in Philadelphia, second prize is two weeks in Philadelphia... it's sort of a paradox, I know the color sells better, but you can only say ..."look at the beautiful colors" in so many ways, then it becomes redundant... color has replaced content... I tried to find the best way of saying this that would be clear, helpful, not offensive... Steve > > I would greatly appreciate comments and criticisms. (These were > edited down from over 800 photos for that day!!) > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information