[Leica] #284

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Philippe Orlent asked:
Subject: Re: [Leica] #284


> Hi Graham,
>
> I like the way a certain magic is creeping into your images: these are
> becoming almost fantasy images with a great stopping power. Did you ever 
> try
> to produce this effect in colour? IMO it would be images that seem to be
> from another planet.<<<<<<<

Hi Philippe,
Interesting you should ask to see this in colour as it came to mind, but I 
dismissed it as quickly because I felt the power comes from being B&W. Hang 
this one on a wall and pretty well everyone would stop and look, in colour 
it would look like another tourist calendar picture. A nice calendar shot, 
but not with the equal stopping power in B&W.

Quite possibly in colour it would lose it's impact because the B&W contrasts 
create the impact, in  colour I don't think it would stand out so 
beautifully. Unless maybe using a polarizing filter and a half stop darker 
to enhance the colours. Or something like that. ;-)

However, I'll take this one as is. :-) Simply because it's a first class 
photograph. :-)

ted