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Subject: [Leica] B. D. PAW
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Mar 25 06:57:34 2005

I would have had that been possible, but unfortunately it wasn't. But I
think seeing an image as either a color or black and white image is a
far cry from playing games with turning things into duotones, etc. And I
know that you know that it is quite different. In almost all cases,
producing a duotone from a color or BW image would not, prior to the
advent of PS, have been something a photographer would have done, but
would have been done by a printer - as in a printing press printer.
Sure, you could tone in the darkroom, but again, this is a different
matter.

Look, you've decided that you want to use multiple images to produce a
single image. Obviously, your art is your art. I'm just saying that I
don't consider that to be "photography." (And yes, I know that one of
Eugene Smith's iconic images was produced by sandwiching two negatives;
I also know that today he'd be instantly fired for doing that. ;-))

Best
B. D.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Philippe Orlent
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 9:48 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] B. D. PAW


So you shot it in B&W? ;-


> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 07:48:16 -0500
> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] B. D. PAW
> 
> Because I'm a photographer, Philippe, not a Photoshop artiste. ;-)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf 
> Of Philippe Orlent
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 2:36 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] B. D. PAW
> 
> 
> Why not a duotone with some blue?
> 
> 
>> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:12:08 -0500
>> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Subject: [Leica] B. D. PAW
>> 
>> Oh, posting a new photo every week is just so pass?...:-) So I've 
>> added a black and white version of last week's better shot. So color?

>> Or black and white? 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Kit1_bw
>> 
>> Fire away...
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf 
>> Of Jim Hemenway
>> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:08 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Iraq occupation protest - Chicago 3/19/05
>> 
>> 
>> Dave:
>> 
>> There's several good portraits there, I like 028, 034 and 283 the 
>> most... except for the third face w/o a nose in the background.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> David Mason wrote:
>> 
>>> [sorry, long paragraph to get to me sharing some photos]
>>> 
>>> I was in Chicago briefly this weekend and took the opportunity to 
>>> wander over to the protest against American presence in Iraq. For 
>>> you
> 
>>> neo-con-death-cult-members you will be happy to hear that the 
>>> turn-out
>> 
>>> was about 200 or 300 people to about 2000 police officers. For what 
>>> its worth, I think protests are a waste of time as they are so 
>>> overplayed and tend to evolve into unfocussed bitching about some 
>>> supposed 'enemy' . However, we all know they can present interesting

>>> photo practice as well. As I was thinking about how I don't like 
>>> protests I was also thinking about how I generally don't like 
>>> protest
> 
>>> photos as they tend to be just like those photos that are termed 
>>> "street photography" but are really just blurred shots of people 
>>> moving. So in my attendence to this event I decided that I would try

>>> to ask permission to take people's photographs as much as possible 
>>> (unless I saw something great that needed a quick shot). Most of 
>>> these
>> 
>>> shots are taken with the permission of the subjects and I was 
>>> interested in how some of them look candid despite that. My attempt,

>>> which I think I only scratched the surface of, was to show the 
>>> variety
>> 
>>> of good people who do oppose the actions their government has taken.

>>> I
>> 
>>> was less interested in the people yelling at the cops although I did

>>> grab one or two of them too.
>>> 
>>> http://dmason.net/protest/
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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