Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/26

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Subject: [Leica] [PAW] IMG: Flower Girls
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:08:49 -0800
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On Nov 26, 2012, at 10:04 AM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Steve Barbour OFFERED:
> Subject: Re: [PAW] IMG: Flower Girls
> 
> 
> On Nov 16, 2012, at 7:06 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:
>> Don't have my targets yet, but couldn't resist posting one I had already
>> scanned.  This one is Provia 100:
>> http://www.pbase.com/image/147349990
> 
> 
> AND STEVE SAID:
> I am going to try this out, but I expect some resistance...   :-)
> 
> I suspect that some of these, eg this one may be better in bw,   I know 
> that color is important, but with the color, "it's all about color".
> 
> Showing these images in bw would focus on your exquisite capture of the 
> children, being as they are, wonderful faces, postures, interaction.
> 
> So succumbing to the idea that color requires color, creates sameness, and 
> robs the photos of the features that make each capture different and quite 
> beautiful.<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> Hi Steve,
> Could we say....
> 
> "When you photograph people in colour. You photograph their clothes.  But 
> when you photograph them in B&W. You photograph their souls." 
> ????????????? As a response to your post?


yes, but Ted (and Tina) if I want clothes in color,  I can look at the 
innumerable catalogs that arrive at my door,  literally daily.


Steve



> 
> cheers,
> ted
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> C&C?
>> 
>> Tina
>> 
>> -- 
>> Tina Manley, ASMP
>> www.tinamanley.com
> 



In reply to: Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] IMG: Flower Girls)
Message from steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] [PAW] IMG: Flower Girls)