Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You get to know they image you clicked on in the field way better in the darkroom as you're working with it. And working with the image going through several sheets of paper and spending and hour is often going to take you in an unexpected direction. Which you expect is going to happen. And again years later when you "perform" that negative or capture again you can change your mind on it. Some people for some reason wish that is not the case. You wonder if they'd ever printed in a darkroom. On 1/2/17 11:41 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > 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.ht>> m >> 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/