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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Barber Shop and LIGHT - BW
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Sat May 24 05:21:42 2008
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Ted mon ami,
I'm so happy to be part of this wonderful bunch of people, namely the LUG.
Wish you all well
phx


Ted Grant wrote:

>Philippe offered the Barber Shop photograph should be in B&W! Which is an
>excellent suggestion, as it illustrates what I've said so many times. "When
>you photograph people in colour. you photograph their clothes!"  "Photograph
>them in B&W and you photograph their souls!"
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>Well OK maybe no souls showing here, but when you get rid of the colours you
>now have a photograph with much greater impact!
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>The people stand out stronger and the over all look of the picture has much
>greater impact.
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>Sometimes we become so caught up with colours we forget, "I wonder how this
>might look in B&W?" 
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>At least with digital and computers we can make very quick changes to see
>how effective the switch over might be.
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>So over to you Tina, after all it is your picture and from the B&W I'd said
>Philippe was quite right in suggesting the switch, as it's a far better
>photograph in B&W.
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>Yeah I know some folks will want to argue, OK go for it! ;-) But before you
>start just remember Philippe and I are right. And Tina has shown with her
>B&W photo version proving us right! :-) Now don't cry or get mad! ;-) Relax
>and enjoy a cool photograph! :-) In B&W! Thanks Tina. :-)
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>ted
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina
>Manley
>Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:21 AM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: and LIGHT - BW
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>At 09:58 AM 5/23/2008, you wrote:
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>>Hope this helps. At least it helped me as it has forced me to 
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>>analyze a spontaneous reaction and try to find why I had reacted so.
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>>So thank you Tina for this and for your kind and open mind.
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>>Phx
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>And thank you, Philippe, for prompting me to try it in black and 
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>white.  It hadn't occurred to me.  Probably a lot of the India photos 
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>would lend themselves to B&W. There was so much color everywhere, it 
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>was almost overwhelming.  I'll have to try converting some (if I ever 
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>finish them all!!)
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>Tina
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>Tina Manley
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>www.tinamanley.com 
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