Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you Tina, John and Steve. Gerry > On 2 Jan 2017, at 17:07, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > > +1! > > Tina > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 12:04 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote: > >> You know the obvious answer Gerry........ I usually leave the house with a >> Monochrom as well as my M(240) ;-) I agree with what you say and rarely >> take the same shot with both cameras as each have their strengths. >> >> john >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> 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. >> >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information