Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hola F?lix, Thanks for your comments, I see that we share two things Music & Photo. About three or four years ago I went to Bilbao only for assist to the Siegfried performance in your magnificent Palacio. Good and very interesting question about B&W and colour, well I'll try to explain the different reasons to use principally B&W: Probably the first and easiest answer is because I prefer the B&W atmosphere, IMO B&W concentrates better the attention on the subject, for me the use of the colour is very difficult because I think that it is not enough to have nice colours on the environment, I think that colour should be worked as a expressively manner, i.e. I admire the works of Ernst Haas, and some others, but in many cases colour was unnecessary to give us a better image. I think that it was our Catalan photographer Francesc Catal? Roca who has said that unfortunately on the history of photography the B&W was invented first. The second reason is by the colour is frequently altered under artificial light and for me it is more difficult to reach the atmosphere I want show. Maybe I can arrive manipulating tones...., but I don't like so much "manipulate", I like the images as they was take, beside this I don't have many time for this. The third reason is the scanning process, I've never can put in my PC a scanned picture with the same quality as I see on a slide, I know that I don't have a good scanner for this purpose, but even I went to one of the best colour Labs in Barcelona and Spain (EGM), and I gave them a roll to scan, the quality was so different as the slides!, I've come back to discuss with a specialist of the Lab, and he has explained me that they do his work with a very good professional scanner, but he said me that with a scanner we can't obtain the requirements I want, and I have tried any more. I had this experience last September. Neither the black and white has the same quality with a scanned image than with a chemical one, but for my taste it is not so different as it is in colour. I keep and I enjoy my Pradovit seeing the images on a big screen. The light goes through the film and it is projected, not through a pixel interpreted by a software..., maybe I'm to "classical"..... It was a little bit difficult explain all these things in English, I hope you have understood me. Saludos cordiales desde Barcelona Luis -----Mensaje original----- De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org]En nombre de F?lix L?pez de Maturana Enviado el: jueves, 19 de mayo de 2005 19:43 Para: lug@leica-users.org Asunto: [Leica] Re: LUG Digest, Vol 29, Issue 483 >Hi all, > >These pictures (except two) are from a very well known, nice and typical >Barcelona market, "La Boqueria", I hope you enyoy it. Thanks for looking and >I'll appreciate your comments. > > >Saludos desde Barcelona >Luis Hi Luis I do appreciate your pics of such a nice site I have visited so many times before going to Liceo in Las Ramblas. I specially like this one http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=496446 But don't you sincerely believe that some of these pictures did merited color? La Boqueria is a truly explosion of colors and therefore I lack this quality. Best regards Felix _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information