Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> On Jan 2, 2017, at 8:51 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> > wrote: > > I am sorry to come back on this, but I believe that the photographer > should make a decision by pre-visualisation of how the final image should > look. Although this may may be a split-second decision based on intuition > and experience that decision is important. If you shoot in b&w you shoot > for the composition of light and dark, highlights and shadows whereas if > you shoot in colour you shoot for the interplay of the colours of the > image and the way the balance together. This is a decision that cannot be > realistically made afterwards as the two images/decisions are different. > If you make the dcision afterwards it will never be as good as the > pre-visualisation that should have been done before. I agree with you Gerry. steve > > Gerry > >> On 2 Jan 2017, at 13:46, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Ever since I switched to digital I have had problems with some images >> deciding whether it is a ?colour? image or a ?mono? image. It was easier >> in my opinion when you carried two cameras, and you made the decision at >> the point of pressing the button, and then you had decided. It was a >> decision made at that moment, in that mood, at (to quote HC-B) the point >> when the heart, the eye and the mind come together. There is no better >> time to decide because never again will those three factors coincide. I >> am afraid that the decision on which of these two images is purely yours >> to make because neither is better or worse than the other. >> >> I wish you luck with your decision, >> >> Gerry >> >>> On 2 Jan 2017, at 01:51, lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography >>> at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> The Day I went to shoot ?Giving Smiles? I?ve carried the M9, it poses >>> sometimes a problem to decide if color or B&W?. >>> >>> Evening in La Rambla >>> >>> Leica M9, Summilux 75 wide open >>> >>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/La+Rambla/20161221_L1013236+1.jpg.html> >>> >>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/La+Rambla/20161221_L1013236.jpg.html> >>> >>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome >>> >>> Saludos cordiales >>> Lluis >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information