Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/05

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Subject: [Leica] What are the most important aspects of a photographic image?
From: daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 13:56:00 +0100
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On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> 
wrote:

> In fact, relating to what Steve is saying: visualize in your mind the 
> iconic
> color images.
>
> Chances are you don't recall all the colors correctly. In fact, for me, I
> probably do not recall all but one or two colors correctly.
>
> But the image stays - if it is a powerful image.
>
> Afghan Girl - her eyes are green. Her scarf? Not sure.

If you _did_ remember, then the image would have been characterized as
an image of a scarf, of a certain color. But it wasn't. It is just an
excellent image that is in color, not an image of color.

Daniel
In reply to: Message from pswango at att.net (Phil Swango) ([Leica] What are the most important aspects of a photographic image?)
Message from richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] What are the most important aspects of a photographic image?)
Message from richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] What are the most important aspects of a photographic image?)