Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/03

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Subject: [Leica] LUG Assignment #2
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 01:54:14 -0400

When we got the Cibachrome process in at the rental color lab in Portland
when I was first starting out in the late seventy's it got half the
photographers in Portland shooting a lone red apple out standing in the
field. Lots of shots with something red in it.
Then in the ultra glossy Cibachrome print it would come out truly INSANE
red;
Or as the kids say nowadays "SICK!".
Or as the Brits, Irish included are prone to say: "BRILLIANT".
Those Cibachrome reds would put your good eye out.

That behind something so glossy your face would fall off just looking at it.
Putting it behind normal glass would just tone it down.

But it made for the first time color photography was worth something on the
serious market like in a museum or something. A gallery.
You could get as much for a CIBA as you could for a black and white.
Like a hundred bucks or something.
The stuff just was NOT going to fade.
It was like a Styrofoam cup floating in the ocean.
Good for eternity.

Then Kodak announced a C print was just as permanent and
PEOPLE BELIEVED THEM!!!!

My favorite color is red
- With green.

I just saw a huge documentary last week
Valentino: The Last Emperor (2008)
About a guy who loved red and made a lot of money.
There's money in red.

Ever since I was 5 years old just like most my friends (who were guys) when
someone asked what my favorite flavor was I'd say:
Red!
I still do though.

I forgot what the gals would say:
Blue or purple or some odd thing!



Mark William Rabiner



> From: Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 17:59:28 -0700
> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Assignment #2
> 
> Each year at the LEICA SEMINAR we have a topic which everyone has a shot 
> at.
> This is the one that drove everyone crazy and them ready to burn me at the
> stake. Tina can verify! :-) Maybe a few other Luggites also!
> 
>  
> 
> "The Colour Red!"
> 
>  
> 
> It became a kill Ted or find simple photographs involving the colour red!
> Yep and a few thought ir was going to be a piece of cake!  SURPRISE!  It's
> not as easy as you might think, because not only do you require the colour
> red, but it must be a photographic moment of interest!
> 
>  




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