[Leica] The "problem" with the M9
Mark Rabiner
mark at rabinergroup.com
Mon Jan 2 20:41:20 PST 2017
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 colour¹ image or a
> mono¹ 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 ³Giving Smiles² I¹ve 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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