Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There's always what you think you're going to do when you take the shot but you know when you're in the darkroom you might start going in a different direction. This is not my peculiar workflo but every photographer who ever lived. On 1/2/17 11:51 AM, "Gerry Walden" <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote: > I am sorry to come back on this, but I believe that the photographer should > make a decision by pre-visualisation of how the final image should look. > Although this may may be a split-second decision based on intuition and > experience that decision is important. If you shoot in b&w you shoot for > the > composition of light and dark, highlights and shadows whereas if you shoot > in > colour you shoot for the interplay of the colours of the image and the way > the > balance together. This is a decision that cannot be realistically made > afterwards as the two images/decisions are different. If you make the > dcision > afterwards it will never be as good as the pre-visualisation that should > have > been done before. Gerry > On 2 Jan 2017, at 13:46, Gerry Walden > <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote: > > Ever since I switched to digital I have > had problems with some images deciding whether it is a ?colour? image or a > ?mono? image. It was easier in my opinion when you carried two cameras, and > you made the decision at the point of pressing the button, and then you had > decided. It was a decision made at that moment, in that mood, at (to quote > HC-B) the point when the heart, the eye and the mind come together. There > is > no better time to decide because never again will those three factors > coincide. I am afraid that the decision on which of these two images is > purely > yours to make because neither is better or worse than the other. > > I wish > you luck with your decision, > > Gerry > >> On 2 Jan 2017, at 01:51, > lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The > Day I went to shoot ?Giving Smiles? I?ve carried the M9, it poses > sometimes a > problem to decide if color or B&W?. >> >> Evening in La Rambla >> >> Leica > M9, Summilux 75 wide open >> >> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/La+Rambla/20161221_L1013236+1.jpg.htm > l> >> >> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/La+Rambla/20161221_L1013236.jpg.html> > >> >> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome >> >> Saludos cordiales >> > Lluis >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica > Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica > Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information _______________________________________________ Leica Users > Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/