[Leica] Spare

[SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com)]

  I've gone over this some in the past, but suffice it to say that when I was 
first shooting film in the late 50's early sixties, color was a real luxury 
for me.  When I went into TV, we were shooting BW newsfilm, and only rarely got 
to shoot any color. I moved from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, and the station 
had it's own color processor, and then I could shoot it daily.  

Still work remained largely BW, because  I had only that capability in my 
darkroom.  Now life has changed, and the same roll of film suffices for both, and 
I have just about stopped buying any BW film; that that I use is C-41.

I don't (usually) look at a shot's content, and think that it will present 
better in color or BW.  The exception might be a reenactment or the like.  More 
often it is simply a situation where I cannot control the color balance to 
suit me, or there are color elements that IMO detract from the content.  

It never crossed my mind to run this one BW; I simply thought it a grabshot 
of a remarkable occurrence.  


Regards, 

Sonny



In a message dated 5/24/2004 9:16:24 PM Central Daylight Time, 
richard-lists@imagecraft.com writes:
I am still thinking about doing more B&W stuff (yea, I know, "Do, Not 
Think") and one of the questions is of course, when should a picture be in 
B&W. I think this is an example where the color does not serve to add 
anything, so perhaps a B&W would be better?

This is a tough question for me to struggle because a) most pictures I take 
are of costumers, who like to dress up in colorful costumes, and b) my wife 
is one of those that color is one of her primary "sense." According to her, 
she associates phrases, people, smell,... with colors. She is also my 
biggest critics so showing her B&W stuff is difficult :-)

At 06:57 PM 5/24/2004, Sonny Carter wrote:

>http://www.sonc.com/spare.htm