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Subject: [Leica] Color vs B&W
From: jon.streeter at cox.net (jon.streeter)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:45:17 -0800

Great quote.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone

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From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: [Leica] Color vs B&W
Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2012 11:00 am


Love this quote from Harold Feinstein:   ?When your mouth drops open, click
the shutter.?

Reminds me of Ted!

Tina

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> Speaking of B&W:
>
> http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/12/harold-feinstein/?hpt=hp_t3
>
> Better in color?
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at 
> gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 12, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Caricature?  So any photos made before color film was available are
>> > caricatures?  I don't get that.
>> >
>> > I love B&W photography.  It *sometimes** *turns a snapshot into art by
>> > reducing the content to form and composition which could be a type of
>> > caricature but not under the usual definition of oversimplification or
>> > satirical content.   Unless the photo is flowers, sunsets, sports, or
>> > wildlife, I almost always prefer B&W over color.  Would Salgado's
>> photos be
>> > as effective in color?  He is photographing currently and has the
>> choice. I
>> > guess we are all different and have different opinions!
>> >
>> > Standing up for B&W here, surprised to have to do that on a Leica list!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> sure agree,   I totally support you on your decisions, though I
>> feel/agree that bw is preferable.... unless the image is "all about 
>> color"!
>> I feel that the stripping away of color lets you see what is there
>> without distraction or artifice,
>> though it doesn't create caricature....   it does however get down to
>> core issues, which is the point.
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Tina
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> and turning them into B&W caricature shows them how the photographer
>> >> thinks they are
>> >>
>> >> ric
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Dec 12, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> 
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> how is that NOT how they are?
>> >>>
>> >>> it seems to me precisely how they are
>> >>>
>> >>> ric
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Dec 12, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at 
>> >>> gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> occurs to me this concerns how they want to be seen, not how they
>> are.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >
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