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Subject: [Leica] what are the most important aspects of a photographic image?
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:57:55 -0500
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>From PhotoQuotes.com:

TED GRANT
father of Canadian Photojournalism

When you photograph a man in color, you photograph his clothes. When you
photograph a man in B&W, you photograph his soul. - Ted
Grant<http://www.photoquotes.com/showquotes.aspx?id=525&name=Grant,Ted>
 - a famous Canadian photographer


Tina


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Craig Semetko <csemetko at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I am selling b&w work, and from what i've seen in galleries many are
> selling b&w as well. And Tina and Ted have chimed in that they are too.
>
> For the most part, for my type of photography, I just like B&W better. To
> me, it seems to have more gravitas. I'm shooting both film and digital but
> converting most digital to B&W with silver efex pro. It just seems to look
> more timeless to me. Three of my images, I think, in my upcoming show at 
> the
> Leica Gallery in NYC are converted M8 and M9 files. If I processed them
> well, it's just about impossible to tell the prints from silver gelatin.
>
> craig
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:11 PM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote:
>
>  On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Really whose making and selling recently made black and white
>>> photography?
>>> On the LUG we have Craig Semetko.
>>> But I believe Crag is the exception not the rule.
>>>
>>
>>
>
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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