Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When my mouth drops open I'm just hoping a bug does not fly in. Mark William Rabiner > From: jon streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:45:17 -0800 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Color vs B&W > > Great quote. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message > ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> To: "Leica Users Group" > <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] Color vs B&W Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2012 > 11:00 am Love this quote from Harold Feinstein: ?When your mouth drops > open, click the shutter.? Reminds me of Ted! Tina On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at > 1:56 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > Speaking of B&W: > > > http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/12/harold-feinstein/?hpt=hp_t3 > > > Better in color? > > Tina > > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Steve Barbour > <steve.barbour at gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> On Dec 12, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Tina > Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: >> >> > Caricature? So any photos made > before color film was available are >> > caricatures? I don't get that. >> > > >> > I love B&W photography. It *sometimes** *turns a snapshot into art > by >> > reducing the content to form and composition which could be a type > of >> > caricature but not under the usual definition of oversimplification > or >> > satirical content. Unless the photo is flowers, sunsets, sports, > or >> > wildlife, I almost always prefer B&W over color. Would Salgado's >> > photos be >> > as effective in color? He is photographing currently and has > the >> choice. I >> > guess we are all different and have different > opinions! >> > >> > Standing up for B&W here, surprised to have to do that on > a Leica list! >> >> >> >> >> sure agree, I totally support you on your > decisions, though I >> feel/agree that bw is preferable.... unless the image > is "all about color"! >> I feel that the stripping away of color lets you see > what is there >> without distraction or artifice, >> though it doesn't create > caricature.... it does however get down to >> core issues, which is the > point. >> >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> > >> > Tina >> > >> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 > at 12:12 PM, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> and turning > them into B&W caricature shows them how the photographer >> >> thinks they > are >> >> >> >> ric >> >> >> >> >> >> On Dec 12, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Ric Carter > <ricc at embarqmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> how is that NOT how they are? >> > >>> >> >>> it seems to me precisely how they are >> >>> >> >>> ric >> >>> >> > >>> >> >>> On Dec 12, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Steve Barbour > <steve.barbour at gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> occurs to me this > concerns how they want to be seen, not how they >> are. >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Leica Users Group. >> > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Tina Manley, ASMP >> > www.tinamanley.com >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users > Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica > Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > -- > Tina Manley, > ASMP www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica > Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information _______________________________________________ Leica Users > Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information