[Leica] barcelona streets at night

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (TED GRANT)]

Nicolas showed:
Subject: Re: [Leica] barcelona streets at night
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> But actually I don't try to make pictures that look exactly like the
> reality, I only try to make pictures that look nice, or have some
> feelings that I like. I don't really care about "altering the original
> scene", and that's why I use black and white film altough the original
> scene was in color.<<<<<<<
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Hello Nicolas
Welcome and for your picture post of Barcelona Streets at Night. I remember 
Barcelona very well given I covered the '92 Summer Olympics and saw many 
streets at night after we finished filing our shoot of the day at 11 pm or 
later. Then on our way to supper and fine Spanish wine! :-)

I've noticed several have mentioned the streets look too bright? Well the 
street lights do whether you think so or not.... But that is always the 
choice of the photographer (you)? who made the exposure and shown as a 
computer image.

However may I suggest you try some of them slightly darker for what might be 
considered a more realistic scene. Even though you re-call they appeared 
brighter, as quite often our eyes adjust for this type of light source 
allowing for our memories to see the scene brighter than it really was.
No offense intended by my comments just a little advice from a 
photojournalist of 60 years experience. :-)
cheers,
Dr. ted :-)?