Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thinking more about this interesting debate, maybe the only right answer is: you should reproduce the shots as you feel they should be reproduced. Be that in color or in B&W. If the shots are really good, you'll convey the exact same message. Out of personal experience I know that once you start hesitating, it mostly is better to return to your initial gutt feeling. > From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:56:33 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Black and White > > At 03:41 PM 10/12/2005, you wrote: >> 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. ;-) > > I know and I love their black and whites. I'm usually photographing > warm, brown people, though,;-) and I like PhotoKit's Brown filter, > faded slightly. It's not really a sepia when it's printed but more > like Piezography's warm black. > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >