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Subject: [Leica] PESO: a call for help
From: robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 18:35:53 -0500
References: <0E465B33-9A70-4B22-9468-6EB056A88EB6@frozenlight.eu>

As the Rev. Dr. Uncle Ted might say (as slightly amended):  The color shows
the clothes, the b&w shows the people.

If most of your shots are of 'the events' you might well go with color, but
if mostly of the people the b&w is somewhat stronger.

fwiw, imnsho, ymmv.

Good luck with this!

--Bob

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> I do not usually ask for your help in editing photos?I consider that it is
> up to me decide what to post and up to you to decide whether I have posted
> pearls or garbage. But for once I am in genuine doubt. I am selecting
> pictures from Semana Santa to make a small gallery. The processions
> culminate tomorrow, so I will likely go downtown during the day to document
> the meeting of the Virgin and the resurrected Jesus in front of Alicante?s
> city hall that marks the end of Easter here. Right now, I am editing the
> pictures from last night, and what I cannot decide is whether to present
> them in B&W or color. On the one hand, the colors are an integral part of
> the events; but then again, presenting the images in B&W changes the mood
> to something more menacing, for example in the PAD I posted earlier today.
>
> Here is an example of an image in color:
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/belgiangator/misc/Viernes_santo_color.jpg.html
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> and the same image in B&W:
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> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/belgiangator/misc/Viernes_santo_bw.jpg.html
>
> Which one do you prefer, and why?
>
> I would like to have the entire gallery in color or in B&W.
>
> TIA,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
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