Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, Your work is very good. It was of course your choice to use B&W as you did and color in others. Perhaps you are right that color would not have added to the Honduras photos, but since I only see them in B&W I cannot truly judge. One of my favorite is "Salina Cleaning Beans" nice use of backlight, and not overdone. It evokes a certain sense of lonliness yet contentment. Interesting as opposed to Ordinando Wilson, MiskitoTeen which is almost like a boxing photo. Tina, its not he B&W or Color but the composition in which your photos stand out. I can see the Guatemala in color, but I don't know if I would agree that it does it is necessarily better in color. The only drawback in using color is time. Thirty years from now the B&W will appear timeless as if taken at that moment, but the color may look more its age. I like the "Mam Women at Rural Clinic" in color but "Catarina, Cakchiquel Girl" may have looked fine in B&W. As to the Iraqi photos, the "Boy Selling Sweets on Baghdad Street" is great in B&W while the merchants may have been better in color. So as you say could have gone either way. All the photos look B&W without a shade of tint on my monitor by the way. Peter K