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Subject: [Leica] The "problem" with the M9
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 23:41:20 -0500

There's always what you think you're going to do when you take the shot but
you know when you're in the darkroom you might start going in a different
direction. This is not my peculiar workflo but every  photographer who ever
lived.


On 1/2/17 11:51 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.

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.htm
> l>
>> 
>> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/La+Rambla/20161221_L1013236.jpg.html>
> 
>> 
>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome
>> 
>> Saludos cordiales
>>
> Lluis
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] The "problem" with the M9)
In reply to: Message from gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden) ([Leica] The "problem" with the M9)