Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thursday, August 30, 2012 "EPL" <manolito at videotron.ca>wrote: > Correct me if I am mistaken, but this M Monochrome thing will capture > images > in, er, black and white? Like, basically, fifty shades of grey? Grey? The > colour of age and Death? > > This isn't like the second coming of Velvia. Now that was something. That > was, like, a kandy-colored tangerine-flake streamline babe. Nice bright > colours. Dreams of summer. Kodachrome on juice. > > I always thought that Ansel Adams was a wanker for depicting landscapes in > b&w. Like he was imposing humanity's morbid gloom on God's great glory. > > The painters at Lascaux used every colour they could see and could > reproduce. No monochrome. Because they didn't go to school or imagine they > knew better. > > Emanuel > =============================================================================================== Today the October issue of Shutterbug magazine came in the mail, and after paging through it, the only pictures I could stand looking at again are the B&W ones by Jules Aarons, taken in the 1950's. All the color images are so over the top. I do have favorite color movies, but none of them give me the visual pleasure of luscious B&W examples like "La Belle et la Bete" (1946, Henri Alekan phot) or "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1935, Hal mohr, phot). Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Relations University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt