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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Casual portrait of LUG photographer
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:50:51 -0700
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On Mar 17, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Jeffery Smith wrote:

> When you shoot in B&W, you're taking a picture of the person. Shoot in 
> color and you're taking a picture of .... other distracting stuff.


my first impulse was to agree entirely Jeff,

my second thought... you can accidentally or intentionally  accomplish the 
same thing in bw...
(ie exaggerating things that you may or may not wish to)

so my next question is...

Is there not some other solution besides switching to bw?


Steve



> 
> Jeffery
> 
> 
> On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Mar 17, 2010, at 2:10 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> 
>>>> Not a very polite remark about Howard, Rabs.
>>>> Actually I didn't think that the rendering was unflattering but I'll 
>>>> take
>>>> another look.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Geoff
>>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It wasn't about Howard, Geoff. It was about your "print".
>>> You need to take things off auto and look at them.
>>> Your reds are way high on this one.
>> 
>> sadly, I must sign on with Rabs here Geoff...poor Howard looks like he 
>> has a skin disease, (I know he doesn't)
>> as Ted would say...
>> "look at the picture" ... too much technique, and you can easily lose the 
>> forest for the trees...
>> 
>> Is there really a prednisone filter for photoshop?  :-)
>> 
>> offered earnestly,  
>> with sincere compassion,  
>> to help...
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> [Rabs]
>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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