Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Reasonably, to make a fair comparison you should then restrict the photos to those taken in the last 40 or even less years. Whenever publications had the capability to publish colour photos as readily as B&W. Before that, some of those iconic images that we know of might have been taken in colour if colour film and processing had been available for the same price as B&W, and if they could have been published for the same cost. >Actually, one thing that has not been mentioned yet... > >Name 5 iconic color images of the last 100 years. > >Now name 10 iconic B&W images of the last 100 years. > >I bet you can do the second one much faster than the first. > >It's not just that "real photographers shoot B&W," but that B&W has more >impact, generally speaking. > >-- >// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> >// icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> >// photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> >[ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous >replies in your msgs. ] > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Henning J. Wulff Wulff Photography & Design mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com http://www.archiphoto.com