Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/20

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Subject: Re: Paul's traffic signal photo (was: Re: [Leica] Re: Getcher fresh hot G20 pix here... )
From: Paul Chefurka <chefurka@home.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:42:18 -0500
References: <20011120164237.20420.cpmta@c014.snv.cp.net>

On 20 Nov 2001 08:42:37 -0800, Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote:

>On Tue, 20 November 2001, "Eric" wrote:
>
>> 
>> Paul:
>> 
>>(re: http://www.chefurka.com)
>> 
>> I guess I haven't been to your web site lately...I don't remember the street
>> signal picture on the main page.  That's fantastic!  Love how you've
>> captured that and the building.  Wonderful!!
>> 
> 
>I agree: good use of shapes & colors (oops, Paul's north of the border, that's "colours") in a very ordinary setting.  One of my tests for a successful colour photo is to convert it to B&W and see which works better.  This is unquestionably a Colour photo with a capital "C".  Well done.

If you were going to shoot my portrait right now, I'd insist you use b&w to
avoid that pink cast I seem to have acquired.  Thanks for the kind words,
guys.

It's one of the oldest shots in my collection - done in about 1974 using a
Pentax MX with a 24, on Kodachrome 64.  I've done Cibas and internegs of it
in the past, and frankly, the recent scan and inkjet print does a better
job of preserving the colo(u)rs, saturation and contrast of the original.

 BTW - it was shot without a filter of any sort - Kodachrome almost seemed
to have a built-in polarizer in some circumstances.

Paul

http://www.chefurka.com
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