Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/07

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Subject: [Leica] Color(u)r or B&W?
From: joelmail at mchsi.com (Joel E. Anderson)
Date: Sat Aug 7 11:22:38 2004
References: <41150B2F.5000809@planet.nl>

I prefer the B&W.  But generally, I don't much like color unless it really 
must be there for the image to work.  This image needs no help.  That said, 
I do not find the color distracting like I usually do.

At 12:02 PM 8/7/2004, you wrote:
>I have been having an offline dialogue with Steve Barbour about one of the 
>images I posted among my PAWs last week:
>http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_31alt2.jpg
>
>Steve suggested that this image would be better in B&W and took the 
>trouble of doing it with the JPEG I posted. I have now done a proper 
>converstion on the original Photoshop file, and the result is:
>http://www.leica-gallery.net/wajsman/image-71391.html
>
>Personally, I still prefer the color version; I think the lion on the 
>bicycle cart and the mannequin in the shop window work best in color. 
>Steve prefers the B&W image, also cropped as he suggested. What do y'all 
>think?
>
>BTW, I converted the color picture to B&W using Fred Miranda's B&W Pro 
>plug-in.
>
>Nathan
>--
>Nathan Wajsman
>Almere, The Netherlands
>
>General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com
>Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com
>
>
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