[Leica] IMG: Oktoberfest, the full gallery (and with no garish colours)

[hlritter at bex.net (Howard L Ritter Jr)]

Very perceptive album of well-caught images, Nathan. I agree that an event 
like Oktoberfest can overwhelm its images with a riot of light and color, 
and presenting yours in B&W was a good solution. I like the spontaneous, 
animated expressiveness you caught in so many of the situations you 
pictured. That ability of B&W to shed the extraneous matter of color, when 
color isn?t part of the real spirit of the image, is what I like about it.


?howard


> On Oct 3, 2019, at 5:21 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
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> I was at Munich?s Oktoberfest for a couple of hours on Monday night. The 
> event is easy to photograph in one sense?it is easy to find subjects, most 
> of the time people do not mind being photographed?but the subsequent 
> post-processing is a real challenge because of the mix of light of various 
> colours. It is especially difficult to get the skin tones right in many 
> cases. The obvious solution: show the event in black & white. What is 
> important in the photos are the expressions of the people, the colours are 
> secondary in my opinion. So here are 39 images of people having fun, for 
> the most part. One of my comments on Facebook was that I do not recall 
> being in one place with thousands of more or less drunk people who are 
> behaving so peacefully. In the two hours of walking around, I did not see 
> a single fight or anything even approaching one. Last call is early, at 
> 10:30 pm (although one must consider that the start is early as well), and 
> everyone heads to the U-Bahn or S-Bahn and takes the train home, assuming 
> they remember the station at which they need to get off :-)
> 
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Oktoberfest-2019/
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> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
> 
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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