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Subject: [Leica] My attitude about Colo(u)r
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Wed Feb 2 08:37:15 2005

Well, I like it. A lot.

Nice PS warm brown filter effect.
And clever how you put in and blurred (ofcourse with lens blur) the 3 RGB
colours at the background.
Did you get this nice noise with uniform or gaussian noise? Monochromatic or
not?
;-) ;-) ;-)
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> From: SonC@aol.com
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:30:28 EST
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] My attitude about Colo(u)r
> 
> 
> 
> In a message dated 2/2/2005 10:02:10 A.M. Central Standard Time,
> bdcolen@earthlink.net writes:
> 
>>> Certainly pointing this out in a pleasant, constructive manner  is
>>> preferable to jumping on someone's head ;-), but not pointing it  out
>>> doesn't do anyone any favors..
> 
> Part of my earlier  point was that he commented in the first  posting that
> what attracted him  was the color; I concluded he meant it  to look that 
> way,
> and that the capture was significant to him in other ways  than color 
> balance.
> Personally I usually take a different tack,  especially since I have 
> acquired
> skills with PhotoShop.
> 
> Since there is no standard that can make our appreciation and judgement  
> the
> same as one another regarding color, I don't comment on it in  someone's 
> work.
> 
> 
> BD continues:
>>>> .unless, of course, the idea of posting
>>> photos  here is to post them with the expectation that we will  always
>>> receive universal and resounding praise. And maybe that is  the idea. :-)
> 
> 
> I like it when I get praise, and I'm disappointed when someone pans my  
> pix,
> especially when they don't say why.  I've got to tell you that this  
> picture
> got such mixed reviews it would make your head spin.
> 
> _http://www.sonc.com/man_at_festival.htm_
> (http://www.sonc.com/man_at_festival.htm)
> 
> It too was shot on daylight film, under tungsten light; some people
> responded that it was the best picture they ever saw from me, and a couple
> said it 
> was the worst POS I could have posted.
> 
> Go figure.  I still like the shot of the guy in the Paris  cafe.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,  
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> Oldest continuous  settlement in La Louisiane
> ?galit?, libert?,  crawfish
> 
> 
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