Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You may be right about the warmth, Tina, but I think that sepia has come to say 'gimmick,' fake 'old.' As to black and white being better suited to landscapes and rocks, Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, Mary Ellen Mark, Susan Meiselas, Eugene Richards, Henri Huet, Henri Cartier Bresson, and our friends Michael Hintlian and Ted Grant are hardly people associated with rocks and trees - but I sure associate their most humanistic of work with black and white. ;-) On 10/12/05 3:28 PM, "Tina Manley" <images@InfoAve.Net> wrote: > At 02:59 PM 10/12/2005, you wrote: >> And following the exotism reasoning, I don't think sepia is the way to do >> it >> either, for it does exactly the same. >> Cfr. the last page of National Geographic: this always gives me the >> feeling >> of looking at images that are >> 1: Long gone >> 2: Very patronizing, as if documenting animals in the zoo. > > I hope not. That's absolutely the last thing I want to > communicate! I don't see sepia as "old-looking" just as a warmer > black and white. Cold black and white seems better suited to > landscapes and rocks than people. That's just my feeling, though. > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information