Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Ken. reading this mail I had visions of Harriet having a studio one side of which was colour and theother side B&W. Very retro! with due respect to many on the list we are overwhelmed by colour often. B&W can be very dreary - think of all those pictures of Eastern European Steel Works that appear in LFI. But as has been argued many times before here when used well, B&W shows something which is much more structural. The photo I posted was taken as colour, then desaturated, cropped and so on because I could see a structure that I wanted to record. I also got a bit lucky :-) ! Peace to you too, Peter Kenneth Frazier wrote: > > On May 8, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Arche, Harvey wrote: > >> Color, for some reason, is something I just don't respond to; >> show me B&W and color versions of the same image, and 99 times out of >> 100 I'll prefer the B&W, especially in my own work. > > > Ditto for me. My artist friend Harriet and I have this discussion > frequently, since I "see" in b&w and she "sees" in color. We painted > her studio/gallery space this past weekend, and she had chosen a color > for the main gallery wall that she said "she had imagined." It was a > shade of turquoise blue I would never have imagined, but she was > right. It worked. > > I guess I have a question, then. Is the perception of varying shades > and hues a learned thing, or are we hard wired for it? > > Peter, I really like the tulips shot because I respond to shape and > texture, depth of field, etc., but almost never respond to color. > > Go figure...... > > I'm getting better at buying clothes, though..... :-) > > Peace, > > Ken > ----------------------------------- > The Rev. Kenneth Frazier > Connecticut Conference, United Church of Christ > ---------------------------------- > Current Leica Photography (PESO): > http://tinyurl.com/6sc2r > > Current Medium Format Photos: > http://tinyurl.com/bjvfn > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >